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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Connector allows high current at high voltage with low to very low resistance in a temporary or permanent connection regardless of remates of connecting in many materials.
Technology allowed projects such as Star Wars to be successful and end the Cold War.
Diffusion welding of materials such as aluminum at room temperature has been demonstrator.
Introduction: NeuroLingua is an AI-powered headband utilizing EEG, neurostimulation, and machine learning to enhance and accelerate language acquisition.
Core Technology
EEG Sensors – Monitor brain activity.
AI Analysis – Detects learning patterns.
Neurostimulation – Boosts memory retention.
We are making a new Fischer Tropsch reactor which occupies less space, requires low capital, and has high efficiency using innovative and sustainable technology.
Instead of mix of products here we are able to obtain a single product of our choice. All of this is done by using Microfluidics.
Toka's continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology is designed for power levels ≤ 45 kW (xEV & ICE). Key applications include:
⚡ e-Axle for LEVs (3/4-wheelers, ATVs, golf carts)
🏍 Motorcycles & Scooters (alternative to rubber-belt CVTs)
⚙ Generators (CVT improved part-load efficiency)
🔧 Variable Speed Drives (compressors, pumps, HVAC,
We are on a mission to transform the way people move by leading the change in the electric mobility revolution. Our vision goes beyond just creating electric vehicles; we aim to shape a greener, cleaner, and more efficient future for our cities and communities.
Bellezza Technologies brings 2D Graphene into mainstream of semiconductor assembly processes.
Anthony Paul Bellezza the inventor of a 2D Graphene fusion process being used for CMOS Chip assembly processes, that fuses interconnects at temperatures within the thermal budget of the chip below 400 degrees C. and can work at temperatures as low as 200 degrees C.
The Sterpin Motor Company (SMC) has developed the “Sterpin Genesis Engine”: the most efficient multi-fuel internal combustion engine ever created, that has been specifically built to run on Hydrogen. “The Sterpin Genesis Engine” - the most advanced, flexible-fuel combustion engine ever developed, has been designed to enable the world’s transition away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels,
Medical PCB assembly plays a crucial role in modern healthcare, powering devices such as patient monitors, diagnostic equipment, and implantable medical devices. China PCB Assembly specializes in manufacturing high-quality medical-grade PCBs that meet strict industry regulations.
Design Considerations – Medical PCBs require high precision, durability, and reliability to ensure accurate performance in critical applications.
Prof. Laithwaite proved magnetic steel can be a coupler of two same strength and polarity linear permanent magnets.
Prof. Laithwaite proved of two same strength and polarity linear permanent magnets if you divert at least one of the two far-end coupled flux polarities from the magnetic steel coupler,
Cooking outdoors is a rewarding challenge. The Crowsbeak Multi-Tool removes some challenges and increases the rewards in one convenient tool!
The one-piece design allows the user to:
Lift pots and pot lids.
Lift frying pans, woks, and discadas.
Pick up pots and pans while employing an extra handle.
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