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.
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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.
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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In the kitchen there is a problem of putting down hot utensils without a proper holder and mostly people use either a cloth piece or a conventional hot utensil holder but there is always a risk of sliding of hot utensils when someone uses a cloth piece or conventional holder.
The SMART SEA RESCUE WATERCRAFT is a programmable GPS controlled autonomous rescue speed boat. It may alternatively be configured as a self driving hydrofoil, catamaran, or amphibious hovercraft. It can be preprogrammed and sent unmanned to a GPS location to return rescue a navy sailor, downed Air Force pilot,
WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL AC-DC RAIL GUIDED PROGRAMMABLE TRANSPORTER PLATFORM MACHINE’ => Patent CA 2295193 A1 - http://www.google.com/patents/CA2295193A1?cl=en
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INSTASHAKE™
The first instant drink and supplement preparation system that enables you to “Make Your Instant Drink Instantly" with 21st century self-dissolving packaging technology.
The current ways of preparing instant drinks and supplements are messy, time-consuming, and wasteful. InstaShake™ solves all of these issues.
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The present photovoltaic (PV) cells use only about half of the light spectrum provided by the sun because the infrared part is not utilized to produce electricity. Without storage or backup generation, PV systems are not a continuous and reliable power source. As a result,
The easy to fly Fying Segway is a personal electric octa-copter with computer assisted stabilization. It has many uses. It can be flown manually or pre-programmed to fly autonomously navigating by GPS guidance.
The EyeOnRoad System intends to predict the road anomalies accurately and alerts the vehicles. This system introduces a new technique to detect road anomalies (bumps, potholes, cracks, expansion joints, patches, etc) automatically, using sensor fusion technique.
People use a wet cotton strip to reduce temperature caused by fever. They put the wet strip on the forehead and after the strip dries they again dip the strip in the water to wet it and continue do this method again and again. This method takes a lot of time,
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