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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We need to find new ways to cooperate, heal ourselves (and each other) and Earth while inventing NEW SYSTEMS to nurture our “shrinking” and ailing planet and its peoples. Creativity Cafe Edutainment Centers is designed to address all that, rapidly and globally.
Every Earthling has a different level of learning ability.
Spills of oil from drilling and transportation operations will continue to cause environmental degradation and economic losses.
Millions of tons (annually) of sustainable (U.S.A-available) resources can help reduce the impact of the environmental insult of uncontained oil. Poultry feathers are being incinerated or disposed into landfills instead of being used as a renewable resource.
Imagine if you will you walk into a room any room. You put these quarter size sensors up on four corners of the room you set up a perimeter you put on a special pair of glasses that use transparent lcd displays with a portable power pack that goes on your belt .
The product line consists of power tool carrying/storage cases with integral features which quickly convert the portable power tools to the functioal equivalent of bench mounted power tools. The enhanced cases quickly mount and clamp to a portable tool cart which provides a transportable, stable, ergonomic work structure.
Adhesive tape is a widely used product in both homes and offices. Though engineers and scientists have worked for decades to improve it and create specialty tapes for a variety of circumstances, there is one problem that they have not yet addressed.
The key problem in the future is the supply of energy and its impact on our climate. One of the key factors in solving this problem is reducing demand for electricity. Smart grid technology has been invented to deal with reducing electric demand at key points by altering the consumption of major electrical appliances.
Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel and other pain causing diseases are some of the most worried about issues facing workers today. Carpal Tunnel has a prevalence rate in the United States of fifty to around a hundred per one thousand tested. While research is still ongoing as to more causes of these diseases, some factors are becoming more common than others.
The problem with bench pressing is that you may actually exhaust yourself to the point that you can not push the barbell off of you or high enough to place it back on the supports. My design completely eliminates this problem, because the barbell remains within the support structure at all times – refer to the drawing.
The MicBall is a non-intimidating microphone that enables users to conveniently participate in spacious, otherwise hard to navigate environments by tossing it from one user to another. The innovative tool encourages audience participation by eliminating the necessity to raise one’s voice in a large room in order to be heard.
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