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.
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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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Around the world, water shortage is increasing in severity. Many large population areas are located close to seas and oceans. This invention utilizes solar energy to distill water from sea water or even brackish and dirty water sources, such as polluted rivers and lakes.
This invention allows one to locate frequently misplaced items such as a key, that one sock, the remote, etc. It uses a ubiquitous technology, namely, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Passive RFID tags (those with no battery) are now in most products we purchase. They are very small and their cost is ever decreasing,
The submitted motor-generator for an electric car has many rotors. But it differs from usual that radiuses of rotors are various. This difference of radiuses allows to use energy of centrifugal acceleration for reception of superfluous capacity.
During start all rotors work in a mode of the motor.
My main aim was to have a project that has an equal involvement of hardware and software. Also we decided to take up a project that is visually appealing and ended up concentrating on the latest display technologies. Finally we decided to do the project on persistence of vision (POV) displays.
Our recent development relates to a Micro-Plasma Surgical Scalpel (MPSS) having the capabilities of being used to perform a broad range of surgical procedures such as but not limited to the following:
• Incision: The separation of biological tissues - surgical cutting
• Ablation: The removal of tissue - excision of tumors
• Coagulation: The thermally induced clotting of blood
My idea: an Ultralight SCUBA Diving Device or C.U.B.A. -- for Compact Ultralight Breathing Apparatus. It's essentially a low-tech, no frills, pure oxygen Recreational Rebreather for shallow water diving on vacations. SCUBA diving rigs are heavy, bulky, complicated, expensive and waste about 95% of their compressed breathing gas.
The whole world is facing a water crisis. Every drop of water is precious and to be saved. We waste a lot of water in our daily life. Most of the water is wasted while washing the face, brushing teeth, shaving and cleaning utensils in a kitchen. Water flows uselessly while rubbing the face.
Between two railway rails there must be a thermal space gap to accommodate the steel track thermal expansion due to environment temperature change. When a railway car’s wheel passes this gap, it causes impact between wheel and track and causes vibration. It also causes material fatigue, equipment wear, and energy losses. What is worse,
This is an innovative keyboard design that can be operated one handed, left or right hand, or with both hands, by pressing only one or two of the ten buttons. There is one key for each finger but each finger can cross the 2mm divide and press two buttons.
The Helium Turbine Engine is an external combustion engine. In this image the burner is designed for burning liquid or gas fuels.
The engine works by heating a propellant made from Helium and two other propellant gases. The propellant gas circulates from the hot side to the 'cold' side,
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