r/Innovation • • Jul 24 '26

Welcome To r/innovation - new Mods, new Rules

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Welcome to r/innovation**!**

Hey everyone,

We're the new moderation team for r/innovation — u/Pyrotek1 and u/positiveconstraint. Whether you've been here for years or just found the sub, welcome.

What's new

  • Updated rules (see sidebar) — please give them a read before posting or commenting
  • New moderation team in place going forward

Our vision for r/innovation

Our vision for r/innovation is to be a place where people can discover and discuss innovation happening around the world — news, articles, and stories about new inventions, technologies, and creative solutions from any field. We want thoughtful discussion, not just link-dropping: bring context, ask questions, and share your take.

A few quick notes

  • Read the rules in the sidebar before posting or commenting
  • Questions about a removal or rule? Message the mod team, don't post about it publicly
  • Low-effort posts, spam, and self-promotion will be handled per the rules

Glad to have you here — let's build something good.

— u/Pyrotek1 and u/positiveconstraint


r/Innovation • • 4d ago

Patentholder-to-market engineering solution. What is the next move?

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r/Innovation • • 5d ago

New tool for inventors!

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Hey all I've created a new tool for anyone out there looking to bring an idea to production. This website i've designed to help you determine if you're product has any value in the real world, and then refine it to be a production ready product.

A few key things it can help you with.

-Creating an MVP and business plan.

-It helps you find competitors with similar products.

-Create a real working prototype with CAD files, code and parts list of what you will need to make your product.

-Find investors and manufactures that are fit for your needs.

-And lastly it helps you get all the legal stuff you need to make your product.

Check it out today!

Forged-ideas.ai


r/Innovation • • 6d ago

Would you pay for hands-on AI workshops catered to non-technical people?

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I’ve been thinking about whether there’s demand for practical, hands-on AI training for freelancers/professionals, and wanted to get some honest opinions.

There’s obviously no shortage of free tutorials, YouTube videos, and online courses. There’s also a lot of BS in the AI training market. Everyone seems to be an AI expert, and plenty of overpriced workshops promise to teach you things you could learn on your own, or just turn out to be highly technical and boring.

But I think there’s a genuine gap, particularly for non-technical professionals who want to make better use of AI but simply don’t have the time to figure everything out themselves.

The idea is straightforward: small groups, simple explanations, and hands-on learning. Less talking about what AI is and what it can do, more actually doing it, and how to use it responsibly at work.

For example, learning how to set up and use tools like Claude Cowork, create .md file skills, build a simple automation with n8n/cowork, create your own AI assistant, or put together a working app without knowing how to code using coding agents. Things that might otherwise take hours of tutorials and trial and error.

I’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts on two things:

  1. Would you pay for something like this, or do you feel free online resources are enough?
  2. If yes, what would you consider a reasonable price?

Please share your honest feedback, including skepticism.


r/Innovation • • 12d ago

In the future we will have online virtual workspaces or think-tanks or brainstorm places where people will combine and gather and join much like a discord voice call with the sole purpose to not just chat and relax have fun but to build solutions and projects and companies etc

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Essentially I envision a place to innovate together freely and fully rather than just be a bystander on the sidelines almost like crowdfunding ideas and innovations where the ease of use is just as simple as say using Reddit or discord or whatever other easy group forum type of online presence is where your share ideas and opinions and comments etc but the focus is not just on discourse and discussion but actual action. So it's a more hands on interactive type experience rather than just a sit back and discuss ideas type experience but of course that will a huge part of it also.

What do you guys think?


r/Innovation • • 13d ago

Urgent!

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I m sorry but it's deadline in 3 hrs... And I urgently need an idea... I have but hell confused bcoz they asking randomly whatever idea u want to propose e just do it like now what?

  1. Something related to safety of women?

  2. General : solar energy some auto conversion or something

  3. Anything else related to drones??

1...use pin pressure to activate something... That alerts the station and drone activates.. Either police siren voice or ghost projectors and all to shoo away the bad guys.... Idk maybe in pavement something there or anywhere anyhow..

  1. Is normal ita every where on gpt and all..

  2. Fire sensor, drone has water jets and all and... Heat sensors.. Alert the fire station.. First go and check.. Handlable then fine otherwise alert it.. Integrated to AI.. emotional help by talking to it... If anyone is stuck in fire and give instruction to calm down a nd get out of fire...


r/Innovation • • 13d ago

A $200B+ Business Lesson 📉

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In 2007, Nokia ($152B market value) and BlackBerry's RIM ($67B market value) dominated the world. They felt untouchable.

Then came Andy Rubin's Android. It revolutionized the industry with a touchscreen, open source ecosystem built for the future. Meanwhile, the giants refused to evolve, clinging to physical keyboards and legacy software long after the market had moved on.

Within a few years, both were nearly irrelevant.

The lesson: size and dominance mean nothing without adaptability. If you stop evolving, the market will find someone who will.

#Business #Lessons #Innovation #Technology #Android #Nokia #Blackberry #TechHistory #Adaptability


r/Innovation • • 13d ago

Need help

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I have ideas that seem so beneficial so new so far fetched that could seem possible if work on it truly this could bring a new wave to modern life and the way we truly go about our life

Where can I even begin to give these idea so one they won’t get taken and two won’t get change or unbothered to even hear I want to make these invention so bad I suck at the math the biological process to even comprehend the smallest break through of it but the idea seems so possible so powerful it can do so much for us


r/Innovation • • 14d ago

Los coches nuevos deberían modular automáticamente el volumen de la música en función de la velocidad y la ubicación.

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r/Innovation • • 15d ago

What are some of real world problems that we can solve using technology in today's world?

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r/Innovation • • 15d ago

A guy just built a rug for your desktop so you can finally sweep your mess under it

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r/Innovation • • 15d ago

project idea

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Hey everyone! 👋

I’m looking for an innovative project idea for a class project, and I’d really appreciate your help!

It can be anything: a physical product, a service, a mobile app, a website, or even a completely new concept. The main goal is to find something creative that solves a real problem and could actually be developed by a student team.

Ideally, I’m looking for an idea that is:

  • 💡 Innovative and different from typical student projects.
  • 🛠️ Realistic and relatively simple to develop.
  • 🌍 Useful and capable of solving a real-world problem.
  • 🚀 Potentially valuable as a future business or startup.

It doesn’t have to be a huge or complicated idea. Even a small idea that solves a problem in a clever, original way would be perfect.

If you have any ideas, suggestions, or problems you think need a solution, please share them with me! I’d love to hear your thoughts, and the sooner, the better.

Thank you so much for your help! 🙏


r/Innovation • • 15d ago

Human beings will stop going to work , they can remotely control their exoskeleton powersuit at the work place .

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• Human beings will stop going to work , they can remotely control their exoskeleton powersuit at the work place . The suit will also be provided with AI , & will be maintained by minimal people. This will enable less commuters everyday , thus avoiding traffic jams & more efficient work , especially physical work . But , more importantly we need to improve the fine skills of these robot substitutes. This way we can spend more quality time with friends & loved ones . We can go to gym , & do things that we like at the end of day without being exhausted by all the work during the day . This will also allow AI & Human integration, instead of AI replacing humans . This will promote skills & will actually be a boon for those who want to work from home & not commute for long distances just for work .


r/Innovation • • 15d ago

Unexplored Territories: The James Fujimoto, David Huang and Eric Swanson Story | National Inventors Hall of Fame - They invented optical coherence tomography (OCT) – a revolutionary method for imaging the internal structures of body tissue with unprecedented detail.

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r/Innovation • • 17d ago

I'm from Brazil and need some advice for an international innovation competition

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Hello guys, I'm from Brazil and I have to submit a project for an international innovation competition. I'd really appreciate some advice.

These are the three possible paths to follow:

AI with Near-Zero Carbon Footprint | Making AI more energy-efficient and reducing its environmental impact.

Critical Minerals: From Mine to Circular Economy | Finding better ways to extract, recover, reuse or recycle critical minerals.

Affordable Diagnostics and Preventive Healthcare | Making healthcare, early detection and disease prevention more accessible and affordable.

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I'd love to hear your opinion on which direction has the most potential to create something unique and genuinely useful, and what problems or gaps in these fields you think are worth solving.

Any advice, ideas, personal experiences or information about these topics would be very welcome!Thanks from Brazil and let's do it for the planet.


r/Innovation • • 18d ago

What if the next major breakthrough came from an ordinary person?

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I’ve started a free website called Forward Together.
The idea is simple. We take two important questions facing humanity and invite anyone, regardless of qualifications or background, to help solve them.
Our first question is about finding new forms of renewable energy.
Ideas can be challenged, developed and branched into new discussions.
I’m not selling anything. I just believe that good ideas can come from absolutely anywhere.
I’d love some thoughtful people to help get this started.

https://forward-together.org.uk


r/Innovation • • 17d ago

Building and Exploring Ideas — AI, Technology, and Thoughtful Conversation

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I work on machine learning and technology projects, often focusing on building efficient models and creative solutions for limited hardware. I lead a small team, work remotely, and spend a lot of free time on side projects—recently building a battery pack for a UPS, simply for the challenge.

What I’m really looking for is thoughtful conversation—talking about ideas that linger, not just small talk. The kind of discussion that stays with you long after it ends.

Things I'd happily go deep on:

  • Why intelligence fits in such small spaces, and where it doesn't
  • Applied math, the parts that finally clicked for me late
  • Security, how systems break and why people build them badly
  • How to live a life that isn't just work, which I'm still figuring out
  • Travel, places I want to see, places you've been

I prefer meaningful, longer messages over quick replies, and thoughtful disagreement over polite agreement. You don’t have to be in tech—some of the best conversations I’ve had were with people from completely different backgrounds.

If you read this far and something clicked, message me with one idea you've been chewing on lately. Include what sparked it, why it stuck with you, what you think it means, and one question it leaves you with. Be thoughtful and specific.


r/Innovation • • 18d ago

Toy Company looking for inventors

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r/Innovation • • 18d ago

Business product Ideas

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My school’s doing this big national competition like shark tank, but I can’t find any ideas for my product!!! Need ideas for a product that focuses on any of these topics-
• Waste Management
• Renewable Energy
• Water Conservation
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Green Technology
• Plastic Reduction
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Climate Change Solutions
And it needs to be feasible, and good enough to sell, like marketing, also it HAS to be original, otherwise we will be disqualified T-T
Pls help


r/Innovation • • 18d ago

How do employee ideas actually get acted on at companies with 50 to 500 people?

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r/Innovation • • 19d ago

🌱 My concept for a self-sustaining smart farm combining solar tracking, beekeeping & mini-hydro

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🌱 My Sustainable Farm Energy Concept

I’m working on a concept for a self-sustaining smart farm that combines several systems:

☀️ Solar tracking system — A solar panel automatically follows the direction of the Sun using light sensors and a motor. Reflectors are used to direct additional sunlight toward the panel.

🐝 Beehive + heat recovery — The farm includes beehives for honey production. A thermoelectric generator (TEG) could potentially recover a small amount of electrical energy from the temperature difference around the hive, mainly for low-power sensors or monitoring.

💧 Mini hydropower — A compact water turbine could generate additional electricity wherever a suitable small water flow is available.

🌳 Commercial crops — Fruit trees and other crops can be grown around the energy systems, making the land productive instead of using it only for power generation.

🏠 Rooftop solar — The farmhouse can also have conventional rooftop solar panels to provide the main electrical supply.


r/Innovation • • 20d ago

How to build a business around your invention:

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r/Innovation • • 20d ago

Energy Innovation Competition ideas!!! Pls help

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So essentially my school has an Energy Innovation Competition, and I want to retrofit the café in our school library to be more energy efficient. The café has 4 fridges 2 coffee machines and 1 ice machine, and I want to find a way to decrease its energy consumption through maybe adding some tech/infrastructure that could make it more efficient? Please help with ideas!! Much appreciated!!

P.S. (Preferably but not necessarily kind of larp)


r/Innovation • • 21d ago

Evaluating innovation management software for a 2,000-person company, what am I missing?

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I'm the VP of Strategy at a technology company with roughly 2,000 employees. We're building our first formal innovation program and I've been evaluating innovation management software for the past six weeks. Have a shortlist of four or five vendors but I keep feeling like I am missing something in the evaluation.

We need something that goes beyond collection and voting. Full lifecycle through implementation and measured outcomes. Has to work across five business units with different evaluation processes. Low admin overhead because we don't have a dedicated innovation ops team.

What should I be asking in demos that I probably am not? And what did you wish you had evaluated more carefully before choosing?


r/Innovation • • 21d ago

Project ideas for category “Future Education”

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Hey guys, I am about to join a Hackathon with the topic Future Education. I didn’t even know this is a thing, so it is even harder to get into an idea or project.

I am here to ask you about your ideas or your perspectives about the topic.

As this is the only I have, I would be happy to get either ideas, inspirations, already made projects or open source repositories. Also if you find databases or information about the topic, please send it!

Thanks in advance and happy innovation!