The 2025 Contest is Now Open for Entries!
Submit your best new product ideas in any of seven categories for a chance at $25,000 USD and other great prizes. Here’s how to get started.
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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.
Read About All the 2024 Winning Inventions
Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
Click here to read moreA ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’
Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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New Drugless Medical Technology: The Whole-body Carbon Dioxide Therapy
Natural factors can be highly effective in treating a wide range of medical issues, an area of study known as balneology. Despite its efficacy, balneology is relatively unknown and underutilized in the United States. CarboMed, the medical division of Euroscience,
MAD3 is an innovative software that leverages the power of machine learning to modernize the forming/stamping processes of sheet metals by predicting directional mechanical behavior of metal alloy (plastic anisotropy), 1000 times faster than existing solutions. Accurate characterization of plastic anisotropy in metal alloy is critical in major manufacturing industries (i.e., automotive, aerospace,
Mobile Application "Perfect Lady" aims are to support women during Menopause, providing them with the knowledge and tools to reassess their health and lifestyle.
The number of postmenopausal women is growing every year. According to WHO, in 2021, women aged 50 and over made up 26% of all women and girls in the world,
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Driving in mountainous regions at night is challenging and dangerous due to low visibility and unpredictable conditions. Some existing night vision technologies, such as thermal imaging cameras, are integrated vehicles to detect heat signals from pedestrians, animals, and other obstacles to avoid collision. Additionally,
Road markings are a critical piece of roadway infrastructure, ensuring safety for the driving public and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) alike. This application represents a large market, with USD 6.42 Billion total revenue in 2022 (1). Waterborne paint is a large and growing portion of the technologies used for road markings,
In the evolving field of medical device engineering, customizing cardiac stents for complex regions like the bifurcating carotid artery is crucial for enhancing patient outcomes. This project integrates Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to create patient-specific stent solutions that improve efficacy and safety.
The concept of an optimal receiver has long been a theoretical goal for RF engineers and scientists, dating back more than a century. An optimal receiver is characterized by its ability to adjust major parameters to match the characteristics of the receiving signal, thereby optimizing spectrum usage and the receiving process. However,
Sam Belkin, CTO of Euroscience, has pioneered a new technology for dynamically tuning RF and microwave filters. This advancement allows for the electronic synthesis and rapid tuning of various types of RF filters, including bandpass, lowpass, highpass, bandstop, and asymmetrical filters.
NEW RF TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD LINEAR MIXERS
The new RF technology developed by Sam Belkin at Euroscience represents a significant advancement in the design of linear mixers. Traditional RF mixers, which are built using non-linear amplitude domain elements, suffer from unwanted parasitic signals, effectively limiting the quality and performance of RF systems.
Collov AI is a cutting-edge technology company located in Silicon Valley, USA, specializing in developing and deploying content generation engines and intelligent base models for visual design based on the next-generation AI technology framework. The company has successfully deployed AI-generated content (AIGC) technology for over 200 home brand enterprises in more than 60 countries,
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