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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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NavTrack is an innovative indoor navigation and occupancy monitoring system that utilizes cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize the way people navigate large building complexes. Designed to address the challenges faced by occupants in finding specific locations within buildings and ensuring their safety during emergency evacuations, NavTrack offers a comprehensive and intelligent solution.
Avian influenza (AI) is a growing global problem. It seriously threatens the livelihood of poultry growers by killing domestic poultry such as chickens, ducks, and turkeys, etc. In the current AI outbreak in the US alone, over 58 million domestically raised chickens have been killed. This is because AI is highly adaptive and transmissive, 
IMHO, the following will be the most impactful tech in the near future - the Sub-Quantum Scope [SQS].
It is a simple, compact, world-record resolving power microscope technology that, in it's crude prototype iteration, crushed the Abbe Limit and outperformed all other scopes using a new discovery in physics and optics.
Valves often develop leaks as they age. This is disruptive, wasteful, and can cause damage in residential settings, but can be far more problematic in industrial applications such as petrochemical, hydrogen, and semiconductor plants. Leaking valves can cause fires, explosions, environmental hazards, and safety hazards. We have developed a valve that is inherently leak-proof.
The OBD2 Simulator includes a handheld dongle and a remote terminal Graphic User Interface (GUI).
OBD2 Simulator can generate OBD2 signals for up to three Electronic Control Units (ECU): Engine, ABS, and Transmission. These signals are based on the SAE J1979 (classic OBD) and SAE J1979-2 (OBDonUDS) protocols. OBD2 Simulator covers multiple classic OBD2 protocols: SAE J1850 VPW,
Plants are important for our planet and an essential natural resource. We rely on them for food, water, air, medicines, habitat & our climate. We as humans can ask for help whenever we are thirsty. Plants, however,
No, it is not a 200 miles per gallon carburetor, nor a secret fuel additive. ValueGauge is a unique electronic display to advise drivers of driving habits that yield the best value for their fuel expense and time, and avoid waste.
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Though not 'sexy,' all machinery perform more efficiently with lower costs using transmissions/gears. Our revolutionary FrictionLess Gears© [FLG] and High-Torque Infinitely-Variabe Transmission [HT-IVT] technology best solve shortcomings in previous inventions without use of conventional spur gears.
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The FLG provides absolute minimum product size/weight/friction/cost/NVH [noise, vibration,
Aeroflux presents a method for hybrid electric vehicles to reach their destinations more sustainably, efficiently, and reliably with the patented EasyPower+™ engine that leverages advancements in material sciences, aerodynamics, and turbine technology to utilize hydrogen as a combustible fuel source. The EasyPower+ ™ engine then optionally drops into an OEMs new hybrid-electric vehicle,
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NFTG‘s game-changing Fuel-Agnostic Zero-Emission Engine[F.A.Z.E.] tech best solves issues present in previous internal combustion engine and vehicle designs by transforming the old paradigms into simple, low cost, quiet, power dense, efficient, on-the-go liquid and gas fuel-flexible,
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