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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Stronger than titanium, lighter than aluminum, tested by the US Army to stop speeding bullets at record setting velocities! Flash® Bainite steel makes ars lighter, safer, less costly & greener.
With roots in the Armor Industry, Flash® Bainite is a revolutionary technology that creates “maximum strength steel” in st in trains, shipping, agriculture, buildings and more.
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Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center have developed a new approach for putting satellites and other payloads into space that will revolutionize the commercial launch services market. Capitalizing on the advantages achieved by releasing payloads in midair rather than launching them from the ground, this unique approach uses a towed glider to put satellites into orbit efficiently, safely,
Natural Machine Logic is the theory and practice of process logic for machine control that relates live physical events to each other rather than relating data from numbered locations in memory. Natural Machine Logic (NML) describes and monitors the temporal relationships between critical process events in continuous time. As a system of hardware logic,
The present invention achieves the delivery of selected oxygen percentages as chosen by the health care practitioner as required, governed by blood gas analyses and or oxygen data via pulse oximetry. In addition to the above an immovable ceiling for oxygen concentrations is achieved by the selected health care practitioner,
Internal combustion engines suffer from fairly low efficiency (internal thermal losses and wasted hot exhaust enthalpy). Small-scale engines' surface area/volume ratio combustion chamber leads to higher heat transfer losses and inefficient combustion. Furthermore, the market for micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) system has solutions with high ratios of heat/electricity (4:1, 3:1, 2:1),
In today's world many road accidents are occurring due to speeding. We see many people in our daily life, that they are not following traffic rules and not observing the speed limit. Although it was mentioned on the speed limit board. To avoid accidents up to some extent,
Humans are polluting our environment. One of the phenomena is throwing garbage here and there while travelling in public transport like buses and trains. When people travel in buses and trains they tend to throw plastic-paper waste (plastic wrappers, coffee cups) either in the vehicle or outside the window which causes problem for cleaners,
The project consists on the development of an electric wheelchair with the action of stand up people with different motor disabilities using for that a diversity of options for the main command: control apps with smartphones or tablets, control of movement by electroencefalographic signals, control through movements of the head,
People can calculate the load capacity of a bridge, a car or an elevator. However, how do we know the maximum load someone can carry without causing a long-term damage? In fact, we begin to know when it’s too late! According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission,
The Problem:
Conventional aircraft make use of elliptical wings to minimize drag. However, achieving
aircraft stability and control in conventional elliptical wings requires a strong adverse
yaw component in roll control (i.e., the aircraft will yaw the opposite direction with
application of roll control). Therefore, a vertical tail or some other method of direct yaw
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