The 2025 Contest is Now Open for Entries!
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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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The X-drive is an elegantly simple device designed to improve the quality of life of wheel chair users. Its design was developed using interviews from wheel chair users and industry retailers/manufacturers. The X-drive fills the need for an inexpensive and convenient method to convert conventional wheel chairs into powered wheel chairs on a permanent or temporary basis.
Excess heat is a problem in electronic systems. Traditional solutions involve conducting heat energy away from the heat generating device through a heat sink to be dissipated to moving air or liquid.
FRUGAL 5 CYCLE ENGINE
The Frugal 5 Cycle engine design solves the 120 plus year old goal of combustion at constant volume, which is the most efficient way to combust the air/fuel mixture in a piston driven internal combustion engine.
With true constant volume combustion,
My Proposed Project:
5/8" Drive Hand Ratchet system with a 3 piece 50" long Telescopic Handle with a group of Hand/Impact Sockets.
This system is to allow a mechanic tighten or loosen bolts (or fasteners if no bolts exist) easily. The system will compliment the 1/4" Dr, a 3/8" Dr, a 1/2" Dr and the 3/4" Drive Ratcheting systems.
The first reusable lotion bottle that serves a dual purpose. The bottle doubles as a pump dispenser and transportable tube. The sustainable packaging innovation is refill ready and dispenses 100% of the content inside!
Aside from the lotion pump that's made of up to ten components,
Structural Integrity Management (SIM) is a process or measure that is put in place to increase the capacity of an any structure to function effectively and efficiently over the designed lifetime of the structure whilst protecting health, safety of the personnel working on the structure in its environment.
Every young family knows the following situation: you go for a walk with your newborn; the swinging of the buggy calms your baby down to sleep. The mother and father like to use this chance to get a break from the daily routine and relax a bit. However,
This design is for rural areas with no pipe access to potable water.
It is extremely simple, it's basically a plastic container with a big opening to inlet the "dirty" water and a smaller one from where the clean comes out.
The dirty water stays in a large surface container while the clean in a deep small surface area.
Many metropolitan cities around the world face traffic woes. The traffic causes loss of time, money, causes mental and physical tiredness, reduces work efficiency and causes road rage besides increasing air and noise pollution in the city. Majority of traffic is seen during rush hours in and around the business areas.
Current approaches to counter this are:
• Road widening,
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