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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My invention heats water by taking the kinetic energy from the wind using a modified Froude type dynamometer, which is coupled to a vertical axis cycloturbine style wind turbine.
The wind-turbine is a variation of prior cycloturbine types, since it uses a wind direction sensing vane to dynamically adjust blade pitch,
The watch that does it all, finally, you can watch tv, store data, make and receive phone calls. Video conference calls, photo's, music, internet, business. All this and no pockets or pouches, no more wondering, "were is that phone". No more running to catch a call. No sacrifice of screen space,
Personal Life Belt Guard JCB
What problem does your design idea to solve?
This personal belt fits any swimsuit and serves to protect the bather of sharks and other marine animals, like jellyfish attacks whenever you have small compartments which incorporates a mini creator of electromagnetic waves, a mini producer ultrafrecuencias and ultra sounds,
Greenergy Fertilizer
In the United States, cities, municipalities, boroughs and counties together collect 65 million tons of yard waste and grass clippings every year (Source- Environmental Protection Agency). There is growing awareness about how this bio-degradable material overloads the landfills. However, the commonly accepted solution of composting this biomass wastes a large quantity of easily recoverable energy.
In composting,
Modular HydroPower (MHP) for Developing Countries
This is a new generation of renewable energy systems for developing nations or in remote locations to provide hydrokinetic electrical power for health care, commerce, education and for domestic microenterprises. MHP units preassembled, readily transportable and include all equipment required to generate reliable electricity.
A self-contained rescue spreader system (SCRSS or Jaws of Life) eliminates the auxiliary power unit and hydraulic hoses of contemporary systems is proposed. The system has a 2-stroke, 2-cylinder engine integrated with reciprocating hydraulic pumps, composite arms with hardened steel tips, and a fuel tank integrated into the rear handle.
E-Path is a concept to facilitate electrification of the North American rail network while providing the right of way for the electrical transmission infrastructure needed to access the large amount of wind energy in the center of the continent.
The function of our production is ‘floor cleaning’. From market survey, we found out two main aspects here:
1. Labour
2. Power usage as we need to use as low as we can.
Another interesting demand was: a mechanism which will dry out floor (Most people use liquid water.
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The New Hydrogen Motor
This idea of mine will help solve our addiction to oil.
Also this idea will benefit in our global financial recovery by
using only water as a fuel which is a never ending
Supply.
Automatic Maintenance Monitoring Control System (AMMCS)
Maintenance Monitoring Control concept is an external sub-system for monitoring overall system performance and should be integrated within the facility voice and data communications, radar data processing (RDP) and flight data processing (FDP) for each Area Control Facilities (ACF).
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