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.
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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 eventual shift from our dependence on fossil fuels to sustainable, alternative energies has been exemplified by personal transportation. We rely on the high energy density of petroleum products to power our vehicles, but the rise of hybrid and electric vehicles in recent years has shown hints of the future to come. However, the shift has been gradual,
Autonomous Velocity Motors
One of the biggest problems with any device that needs an electric motor is the faster a motor turns and the more torque that is required, the more current and/or voltage is required to run it which limits the time a motor can run from a stored energy source like a battery.
We are creating a venture referred to as ZEFCOT. ZEFCOT stands for Zero Energy, Environmentally Friendly Community Of Today. The goal of ZEFCOT is to prove that an extremely energy efficient housing subdivision can yield greater profits for the developer and builders while providing a very durable, comfortable, energy efficient, well-lit housing for the homeowners.
Electronic ink displays are not very expensive to manufacture, not that much more expensive than normal paper, yet the cost of devices containing them is quite high. That is because of the control circuitry that drives the display.
Oceanic Thermal Energy Conversion system for Gulf Restoration Venture (OTEC-Gulf) is being created in this two-phase effort. In Phase I, we will conduct extensive, long-term testing of concepts over a two-year period in a one-tenth-scale prototype. In Phase II, deploy 100’s of 100-megawatt OTEC systems.
My invention heats water by taking the kinetic energy from the wind using a modified Froude type dynamometer, which is coupled to a vertical axis cycloturbine style wind turbine.
The wind-turbine is a variation of prior cycloturbine types, since it uses a wind direction sensing vane to dynamically adjust blade pitch,
The watch that does it all, finally, you can watch tv, store data, make and receive phone calls. Video conference calls, photo's, music, internet, business. All this and no pockets or pouches, no more wondering, "were is that phone". No more running to catch a call. No sacrifice of screen space,
Personal Life Belt Guard JCB
What problem does your design idea to solve?
This personal belt fits any swimsuit and serves to protect the bather of sharks and other marine animals, like jellyfish attacks whenever you have small compartments which incorporates a mini creator of electromagnetic waves, a mini producer ultrafrecuencias and ultra sounds,
Greenergy Fertilizer
In the United States, cities, municipalities, boroughs and counties together collect 65 million tons of yard waste and grass clippings every year (Source- Environmental Protection Agency). There is growing awareness about how this bio-degradable material overloads the landfills. However, the commonly accepted solution of composting this biomass wastes a large quantity of easily recoverable energy.
In composting,
Modular HydroPower (MHP) for Developing Countries
This is a new generation of renewable energy systems for developing nations or in remote locations to provide hydrokinetic electrical power for health care, commerce, education and for domestic microenterprises. MHP units preassembled, readily transportable and include all equipment required to generate reliable electricity.
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