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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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long recognized the public health hazards of NO2 and SO2. Current scientific evidence links short-term exposures to these toxics with an array of adverse respiratory effects including airway inflammation in healthy people, increased symptoms and more difficulty controlling asthma for asthmatics, and an increase in respiratory illnesses for young and elderly.
N5 Sensors, Inc. of Rockville, MD is a University of Maryland spin-off commercializing a disruptive chip-scale gas sensor technology for industrial, environmental, and safety monitoring. N5’s microsensor arrays on a single chip could replace multiple conventional macro scale gas sensors used in portable multi-gas detector. These new sensors are small, accurate,
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Provided by a thermal camera, Volare Dominus unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is capable for surveillance over a big range up to 20 Km. Using Raspberry Pi, aerial photography and video streaming became easier than before.
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Range: 20 Km
Endurance: 2 Hr
Even scientists, engineers, designers and technophiles fail to recognize the low horsepower required to move a boat at navigable speeds. Hundreds of horsepower are not required for a 12,000 pound, forty foot boat such as the MOG Solar Electric Boat.
An acceptable displacement hull speed of 8 miles per hour requires about 14 horsepower.
My solution to the zebra mussels clogging up the drainage pipes is to install Teflon or plastic liners, thereby making it difficult for them to attach to said pipes. On Navy ships this would be a great benefit to the various sea chests located on the bottom of every ship.
The most efficient solar cells today are concentrating multi-junction photovoltaic (PV) cells. However, a higher efficiency and more flexible system can be made by using spectrally-split PV or direct energy conversion (DEC) solar cells. The DEC cell can function as a dipole, bowtie or ring nano-antenna with frequency down conversion or rectifying. A process,
This project is mainly focused to detect the human stress and to reduce the amount of road accidents, if a person in up normal condition. when a person get tensed or cardiac problem that person will go in up normal condition. Here, we had use three sensors namely heart beat sensor, sweating sensor and temperature sensor.
One of every six commercial vehicles (CV) on the road today has brakes out of adjustment. This fact is provided by “Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance “.
Every year CVSA sponsors a 72 hour roadcheck.In 2014 73,475 CVs were inspected, 29.5% were put out of service for brakes of which 16.7% were out of adjustment.
Chirohopters are a wing form apparatus designed to enable an individual to fly. The light-weight yet sturdy frame contracts in a similar fashion as a Bat (Chiroptera) by cables and pulleys controlled by the arms and legs. The main source of power is via the legs that control the "tooth flaps".
Conversion of Waste Kitchen Foods and Animal Waste in Organic Animal Feed, Pesticides and Fertilizer
This odor free technology, the controlled aerobic biological distillation process where microorganisms convert raw organic materials (kitchen waste, yard waste, animal manure and human feces) into a high yield, high value, organic pesticide, organic animal feed, or organic fertilizer. The technology will eliminate costs associated with landfilling, reduce methane greenhouse gas production,
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