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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) has gained enormous popularity to access and transmit multimedia content for personal and commercial purposes. MMS is becoming increasingly important to cell phone communication applications, including personalized audios, videos, photographs, product advertisements, marketing, medical technology, and many others. However,
Human Robotics is a small high tech company dedicated to Research & Development of new anthropomorphic robotic technologies for being applied on minimally invasive robotic surgery.
The company has developed a miniature anthropomorphic robotic torso which includes 2 arms, trunk and a miniature camera.
In a typical oil changing operation, the do-itself-mechanic will use a bucket to drain the dirty oil from their car and replace the oil filter.
It’s been a long time since anything really new has been developed that improves the way we operate our computers. Pretty colors and soft-touch surfaces hardly qualify as innovation. It’s time we moved beyond the old puck-style mouse.
A Specialized Vocational Training Center to provide the instruction to Upgrade Existing Auto Mechanics to Repair and Service the New Plug-In Electric Vehicles (E. V. Technicians)
• What problem does your design idea solve?
In most air-cooled heat exchangers, the construction utilizes a tube, through which the fluid passes, and fins over which the air passes to remove the heat. Some present units use an aluminum tube and an aluminum fin which are bonded together through a high temperature brazing process.
M5 Plume
characteristics:
Platform: Hybrid car with a Hydrogen (H2) engine and an electromagnetic levitating system (Maglev).
Small family car/ SUV
Max speed: 200 km/h
Driving range: 500 km
It's a Train! It's a Car!
If we just use our senses we can feel the threat to our precious planet Earth. We all feel the increasing of the temperature, the abrupt climatic changes, the defrosting of the Arctic (North Pole) putting in danger the survival of so many species, especially the Polar Bear.
CYCLIC HOME GYM It is an exercise fitness machine designed to provide gravity and resistance training so the user can bulk up his/her muscles in no time while getting a defined cut definition and weight loss.
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