Announcing Our 2024 Finalists
Congratulations to the seven finalists who will be competing for the Grand Prize during a live presentation round in November:
AstroAnt: A Miniature Symbiotic Robotic Serving on the Outside Surfaces of Spacecraft, Rovers, and Landers for Inspection and Diagnostic Tasks
Cosmetic Silica Upcycled from Rice Husk as Natural Alternative to Microplastic Powders
Laser-Generated Anti-Icing and Anti-Fogging Transparent Materials
Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System
NETrolyze: A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
RHOBARR Barrier Dispersions Platform
Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling Device
Watch this space for more announcements, including the Top 100 entries and Top Ten most popular.
Help build a better tomorrow
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 Past Winners’ Success Stories
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.
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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The New Transportation Infrastructure (NTI) is a peek into the future. The NTI is a modern, clean and inexpensive transportation system consisting of multiple level runways, each level holding a single-channel railway carrying light-weight, single-rider mini-vehicles. Today, we all want to “go green.
One of the primary frustrations of working as a pharmacist is the amount of time spent counting and sorting pills for patients and customers.
INTRODUCTION: In general, the mentally challenged people are either tied up with iron chains or hand-cuffed, which are a quite inhuman practice as well as unsafe process. To avoid such kind of harmful procedure, the Detention Chair is designed. Otherwise it is a normal chair,
Executive Summary
HealthViewer™ is a next-generation, interactive software that connects the doctor and patient. It’s a decision support tool (DST) used by providers to promote shared decision-making and by patients to understand the landscape of their diagnosis, the treatment options,
The world is currently experiencing rapid explosion in human population with a fixed land mass, thus, making a very constrained space available for agricultural practices. It is gradually coming to a point where agricultural products supply is no longer able to meet up with the demand,
Bernoulli principle automatic gripping-handling device with electric eye and electromagnet can be used in many industry branches. It has easy and cheap construction. It can grip and very precisely orient cylinder-type metal objects without mechanical contact with those objects. It consists of (Fig.
SOUND MUFFLER
Some equipment in industry produces jarring noise while they run and eventually impair our ears. A method to attenuate such noise from equipment is described below. Before describing the concept, the lessons learnt in school Physics is recapitulated. The bell jar experiment may be referred.
This security object can save your life, your car, and your security. This pepper color gas comes in different designs, so that the robber cannot distinguish the product that you have. When a robber wants to take your car, they ask you to give them your keys,
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