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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With recent explosions of hydrogen in Japanese nuclear plants there is a need for a device that will stop an explosion of hydrogen/oxygen in an enclosed system regardless of the magnitude of the explosion. A Detonation Flame Arrestor (DFA) is designed to extinguish a flame front resulting from an explosion or detonation of a gas in a piping system.
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The Heartbeat-ID scanner measures your heart signals contactless at your wrist. These signals are compared to a special pattern on your chip card. When there is a match you will be authenticated to a system.
In this way the Heartbeat-ID scanner is used as a biometric device.
Boat canvas for boats/crafts and other vehicles which exploits the force of the wind, fabricated with materials specific of the field, with exceptional aero-dynamic profile, highly performing, with a large range for each specific situation, completely controlled by computer (without maneuvering – exterior cords).
The control dispositive start action instantaneously in order to establish for each section,
The invention refers to an asphaltic layer armed with PET filaments and fibers, in view of substituting the known asphaltic layers which cover roadways, bridges, terraces as well as all impermeable asphaltic mixtures.
The invention refers to an installation for the termo-formation of the multilayer polymer plaques made of composite polymers in view of the re-introduction in the economic circuit of the polymer waste.
Why rob Peter to pay for Paul’s solar ?
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What If . . .
Would You Fly in an Airplane Built the Same Way Your Home was Built?
No? Then why isn’t your home and all other buildings built the same way as your plane, your computer and virtually everything else you buy made?
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. If the spread is not controlled, it can result in death. Worldwide, one out of eight deaths is due to cancer; cancer causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. When countries are grouped according to economic development,
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If you're not familiar with a (LoaC), it's a concept that's been around for over a decade. Essentially, once the protocol for a chemistry or biology experiment has been figured out, it's possible to automate that experiment. This is exactly what big pharmaceutical companies do when they need to screen millions of compounds to find new drugs.
During medical exams, men are often asked, “Have you noticed any reduction in urination ability?” This is asked in order to obtain an indication of prostate gland enlargement that usually constricts the urinary duct. Most men aren’t aware of any reduction until it’s severe. My simple idea provides a quantified measurement of urinary function,
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