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.
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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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ShotHawk is the 1st First Responder to an active shooter situation since the active shooter response system works before first responders arrive on scene to contain an active assailant. System activation can be done through the manual pulling of a handle like a traditional fire alarm. Following the activation of the system,
The purpose of a carry-on baggage "verifier" would solve the common action of oversized and overweight baggage being brought on board, taking up precious space that could be utilized by all passengers. It would also allow air carriers to collect the fees of baggage that would normally be checked in at the counter.
This innovation relates to the field of opposed piston internal combustion engines (OP-ICE) having two pistons in one cylinder configured to have facing heads. Specifically, this engine (hereinafter “the Engine”) architecture shows the following features relative to a comparable design:
Compact size: The new architecture solves a size issue.
Roastitnow is the first fully automated roast chicken vending machine, designed to transform raw chicken into roasted chicken, cut, and ready to eat.
Its refrigeration, cooking, and cutting system fully automates the process of preparing, packaging, and selling roast chicken to a customer. The only interaction needed is restocking the machine.
It is an educational device that specializes in teaching plant cultivation and shows how to plant and grow plants in an interactive manner. It is an electronic seed that is placed in special artificial soil and when watered, it begins to grow provided that there is light. Thus, the conditions for cultivation are complete,
Rear-end collisions account for 33% of accidents on U.S. roads. This class of accident accounts for 44% of fatalities (50,000 deaths per year).
Detailed analysis of rear-end collision accident reports showed that the majority of rear-end collisions occur on straight highways, in good weather conditions, good road conditions, and during daylight hours. Further, new old,
In-flight ice accretion poses a persistent challenge to airplane safety by disrupting wing aerodynamics, leading to increased drag and reduced lift. Ice and snow are common experiences for a large segment of the global population,
AVL Racetech of Graz, Austria on October 11, 2023 announced proof of concept of their 430 HP 2-liter Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine
While this is an extraordinary accomplishment, well deserving of international recognition, extending to the ordinary automotive sector raises the same issues as electric vehicles: lack of hydrogen refueling infrastructure and range anxiety.
GTA introduces the offshore energy field of the future, wherein offshore gas and oil fields transition to gigawatt-scale fields of subsea green hydrogen and oxygen production powered by offshore wind, marine hydrokinetic energy, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). The enabling technology is GTA’s patented subsea electrolysis of water.
The innovation introduces a Hybrid Transmission System (the System).
Unlike other mild hybrid configurations, which only enable the administration of TORQUE available from the hybrid set (e.g., internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric machine (EM)), this new mechanism allows TORQUE and RPM to be managed, locating the performance of the hybrid set in it’s optimum. In so doing,
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