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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DTECTIO, a cutting-edge AI-powered healthcare technology startup, is poised to revolutionize the way heart diseases are detected and managed. Our unique solution leverages advanced AI algorithms to deliver a more accurate, comprehensive and non-invasive approach to detecting and managing life-threatening heart diseases caused by silent, intermittent, or short-lived symptoms.
Current solutions,
Giant made-in-space telescopes with paraboloid primary mirrors made from solidified liquid precursors.
Mirrors are created by spinning a liquid precursor simultaneously in two orthogonal axes (one to generate artificial gravity and another to generate paraboloid surface) and subsequently solidifying the precursor by either letting it cool or polymerizing it.
As human life expectancy increases, the importance of health is increasingly recognized. Muscle deterioration due to aging not only reduces mobility but also harms mental health. Therefore, soft actuators have been studied to realize artificial muscles that support walking and standing, but none are lightweight yet easy to use.
Safety Sound System SSS | An Artificial Sound Generator for Electric Motorcycles
What problem does your design idea solve?
Electric motorcycles do have an inherent safety threat. These bikes do not have a conspicuous operation sound that allows motorists to increase their situational awareness like gas-powered motorcycles do.
The safety benefit of having an operation rumble is multiple,
Deep Water Generator: The deep water generator is simply a device to generate electricity (power) as the body of the device sinks in any body of water to depth. The deeper the better.
The sun visor in all of our vehicles was initially invented in 1931. No major design changes or improvements in over 90 years! According to NHTSA sun glare causes approximately 9,000 crashes a year.
Problem:
Current sun visors are a manual system unsuitable for safety, cumbersome to use, and don't cover all areas of the windshield or side windows.
Ionic Mineral Technologies (Ionic MT) has developed Ionisil™, a nano-silicon anode drop-in technology for lithium-ion batteries. The product is designed to replace graphite (the current mainstream anode material) in the anode of the battery, both partially and completely, to significantly boost energy density and therefore the range of the battery.
The illustrated row-guidance hitch is a simple mechanism that combines articulation and side shift to provide adjustable on-the-go variable draft and position of tools for in-row fieldwork. The hitch adjustments also provide a way to couple with field implements automatically.
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) uses heliostat mirrors to direct sunlight onto a central collector where heat is converted to electric power. CSP has a significant potential cost advantage over photovoltaics, mirror area being less expensive than photocells.
However, this advantage is offset by the sturdy heliostat construction required for maintaining alignment during daily temperature changes, wind forcing, etc.
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