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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 top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.

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A ‘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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

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Billboards can also power homes and businesses: Windboard relates to an innovative solution of generating electricity using vertical axis wind turbines mounted to billboards. This solution takes advantage of the pre-existing structures and power grid attachment points. Moreover it aims at powering the billboard.

During the past decade,

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Top Ten Leaders

The Runners Up

#11 with 66 votes
Mind Mouse Tablet PC for ALS Patient

#12 with 60 votes
Rotoconversion Energy Saving Method

#13 with 56 votes
Spiral Wound Wedge Wire Detonation Flame Arrester

#14 with 50 votes
Self-erecting / folding Support-Mast Equiment

#15 with 48 votes
BioReactor Air Scruber

#16 with 45 votes
Self adjusting propeller, speed regulating gear

#17 with 40 votes
Grail Engine

#17 with 40 votes
Robotic Surgical Device (tie)

#19 with 39 votes
Solar Thermal Module

#20 with 36 votes
Ellipsoidal Gait Bicycle

#20 with 36 votes
Roof Top Wind Turbine (tie)

#22 with 34 votes
Automatic Fall Detection

#23 with 32 votes
W-Select.

#24 with 31 votes
Revolutionary Oral Airway Improves Patient Safety

#24 with 31 votes
Aerial Wind Turbine (tie)

#24 with 31 votes
Photovoltaic Optical Fiber (tie)

#27 with 29 votes
IDEA™ Enhanced Pulse Oximetry

#27 with 29 votes
Electromagnetic Belt For Visually Impaired (tie)

#29 with 28 votes
E’llipse The Traveler Timepiece

#30 with 24 votes
AirWatt

#30 with 24 votes
TourEngine - Efficient Split-Cycle ICE (tie)

#32 with 23 votes
EMMA Elder Mobile Monitor Assistant

#33 with 20 votes
Advanced Endodontic File

#33 with 20 votes
Omni directional holonomic spherical robot (tie)

#35 with 19 votes
Autonomous Guiding System (for the blind)

#35 with 19 votes
Low Cost and Portable RF Power Meter for EMI (tie)

#35 with 19 votes
Hydrogen Production System (tie)

#38 with 18 votes
Assisted Wheelchair for Physically Challenged

#38 with 18 votes
CCFL as Alternative to CFL and LED (tie)

#38 with 18 votes
Engagement Innovations: MicBall (tie)

#41 with 17 votes
A better mouse trap (or drill chuck)

#41 with 17 votes
A Symbiotic SHM and Structural Control System (tie)

#41 with 17 votes
Smart e-Stick (tie)

#41 with 17 votes
SMART Power Billing Technology (tie)

#45 with 16 votes
Electrical Metering Switch

#45 with 16 votes
Bucket Ape Tile and Grout Installation Tool (tie)

#45 with 16 votes
Eco-Intelligent Bike (tie)

#45 with 16 votes
Maglipix™: Device Solution To Cholesterol Lowering (tie)

#45 with 16 votes
All Round Solar Wave Energy Antenna (tie)

#45 with 16 votes
Greenergy Fertilizer (tie)

#51 with 15 votes
Everlasting Memories

#51 with 15 votes
Pill Popper (tie)

#51 with 15 votes
Ground Traction System (tie)

#51 with 15 votes
Orion Speedtrike™ Ultrahigh Efficiency Vehicle (tie)

#55 with 14 votes
Rowheel Wheelchair Propulsion System

#55 with 14 votes
Continuous Composite Grid Manufacturing (tie)

#57 with 13 votes
THE BUMPNJUMP

#57 with 13 votes
Talking Box With Message Display (tie)

#57 with 13 votes
Regenerative braking bike front wheel (tie)

#60 with 12 votes
Rakshak

#60 with 12 votes
CAT (tie)

#60 with 12 votes
Buzzy (tie)

#60 with 12 votes
Vertical parking garage (tie)

#60 with 12 votes
ElectroChemical Machine (ECM) EC Sinking & Turning (tie)

#65 with 11 votes
Geothermal Water Heater

#65 with 11 votes
Golf Ball Washer (tie)

#65 with 11 votes
Solar refrigerator for humanitarian aid (tie)

#68 with 10 votes
Muscle controlled 3D mouse for amputees

#68 with 10 votes
Reduce Surface tension+freezing point of water (tie)

#68 with 10 votes
Automatic drug release via a wrist watch (tie)

#68 with 10 votes
The Guacheta Eco-Dwelling (tie)

#68 with 10 votes
U-Fly (tie)

#68 with 10 votes
Sonic Bandage for Orthopaedics (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
High End Desktop Audio System

#74 with 9 votes
Ambulatory Refrigerated Ice Cream Vending Machine (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Mechanically Actuatable Wound Patch (MATCH) (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Double Spritz (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Smart Brain Security Device (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Physical therapy for sprained ankle in children (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Unipersonal electric vehicle (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
Visual Detection/Counter-Measure of IED's (tie)

#74 with 9 votes
In Wall iPhone Media Station - iWIMS (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
Fish Pin Bone Remover

#83 with 8 votes
Microturbine Sun Tracker (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
Galvanochemical Process of Water Treatment and Substances Production (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
Open Water Oil Containment Barricade (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
A Low Cost Solar Vaccine Refrigerator (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
Pain's relief (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
GUARDIAN (tie)

#83 with 8 votes
Disposable Dental Handpiece (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Anti-accident glasses

#91 with 7 votes
ON THE GO EV Charging (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Carbon Cleaning Internal Combustion Engines (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Scanning Laser Infrared Molecular Spectrometer (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Intergalactic Propulsion (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Safety of Clutch and Brake Wire (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
CFD Model: Cardiovascular Stenting (tie)

#91 with 7 votes
Kno- U (Cell phone based sensor) (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
A New Use for an Axial Roof Ventilator Turbine

#99 with 6 votes
Fish Friendly Hydro Power (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
An emergency radio with global reach (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
High Torque Secure Surgical Fastener – Driver System (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
Increasing the Safety of Kitchen Cooking Ranges (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
X - Never miss a thing (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
E-Path: Sustainable Transportation & Energy Network (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
M5 Plume - ecologic car (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
Wireless Ergo-Ficient Keyboard (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
DOME: a safe saucepan lid (tie)

#99 with 6 votes
The "Improved" Junk Shot of Decreasing Diameters (tie)

Pogo sticks have been around for a very long time and there have been some recent improvements that have caused resurgence in their popularity. The use of air-springs and special configurations of elastic bands or cords have recently allowed users to jump much higher,

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Try-brid Vehicle
Human/Electric/Wind Powered Bicycle
This solution seeks to address a multitude of economic and ecological issues by stimulating development in developing countries by providing local low voltage electricity for lighting, cellular and satellite communications, laptops and other small electronic devices.

Votes: 1
Views: 5860
Transportation

The SOLAR THERMAL MODULE has been conceived to assist people favoring renewable energy and conservation in their search for an answer that not only helps protect the environment but streamlines HVAC and Solar Power installations without compromising well-being, comfort and safety.

Votes: 39
Views: 4976
Sustainable Technologies

This machine is based off of electrolysis that has been a known format of extracting hydrogen. We know about electrolysis and how it works. The question is have we done all that we can. I propose a different way of thinking about the process.

Votes: 1
Views: 3950
Sustainable Technologies

This device is intended to prevent people from falling or jumping into the train's way in the metro; subway, stations.
It consists in a retractile barrier of 1.5 meters in height which is deployed when the train isn’t in the station;

Votes: 3
Views: 3416
Safety and Security

BreezeRite is an indoor air, modular filtration system that uses new or existing ceiling fans and attaches by interference fit eliminating the need for any mounting hardware.

Votes: 71
Views: 13031
Consumer Products

Clothing Creator is an automated manufacturing process to fabricate clothing without direct human labor. The process can go from bolt of cloth to finished garment in a 45 second cycle. This volume oriented,

Votes: 2
Views: 4586
Machinery & Equipment

This project aims to reduce significantly the number of airplane crashes throughout the world. Considering the consequences after each crashing,

Votes: 1
Views: 7538
Safety and Security

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