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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In recent years, there has been a rapid advancement in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. This has led to the development of personal voice assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, which use natural language processing algorithms to understand user requests and provide appropriate responses. However,
The 4450 lb weight BLU-122 deep penetrating bomb was developed by the U.S. Air Force in 2003 making improvements upon the BLU-113 penetrator which would enable it to have significant penetration through hard targets. The weapon incorporates ~ 780 lb of energetic explosive filling,
[IOT based] AN AUTO-ELECTRIC TOOL MACHINE FOR
SET-ABLE SURFACE-MATERIAL CUTTING / CARVING & STITCHING
leather, plastic / canvas etc material
* PRODUCT MODIFICATION: of the LEATHER CUTTER TOOL to the best.
* Tagline: perfect your material to the best
Our company, Superlative Biosciences LLC is a Manlius, NY-based life sciences products and services small business.
Superlative Biosciences LLC is developing diagnostics and therapeutics for human basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. This skin cancer group comprises the most diagnosed cancers worldwide of all cancer types.
One of the main challenges of using syringes for handicapped people who can only use one arm is first you need to open two packages of the syringe and the fluid medication and then adjust the needle, second you need to pump the fluid medication in to the syringe using the syringe pump and finally inject yourself.
Have you ever noticed how dirty the front wheels of vehicles are? Do you know why? Brake dust!
The wear of brake pads and disks is a ubiquitous source of secondary emissions in all urban centers around the world!
Reducing secondary emissions in the automotive sector is a critical step towards a sustainable future,
IoT based [AUTO] [LOCK-ABLE / SECURITIZED Wireless Touch-Sensitive Glass Keyboard :
BY HIDING ALL BUTTONS IN ONE [RED] BUTTON] [EXISTING KEYBOARD PRODUCTS MODIFICATION]
HOW THE PRODUCT WORKS :
• Simply press the SENSITIVE &
There is a problem with outdoor air pollution. It is among the world’s most significant health and environmental issues. Smog is a leading risk factor for premature death, responsible for 3.4 million deaths each year. Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from cars and trucks are the primary source of smog. This can be solved, and deaths averted,
3200 nautical mile range fuel cell electric aircraft with several new proprietary and patented technologies including the Eternium megawatt superconductive motor and variable propulsion system, removable battery module array, composite liquid hydrogen fuel storage, and Eternium's proprietary thermal management system.
It is often desirable to deliver extremely high power laser output by fiber optics rather than free space, e.g., for surgical, welding, spectroscopy, yet coupling very high optical intensity into even ‘larger silica core’ fiber is replete with challenges.
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