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.
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 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.
Listen nowThank you from our Sponsors
“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”
— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
contest
Contest
Autonomous laser spacecraft for the purpose of redirecting asteroid trajectory.
A 300 KWH laser heating the rock face of the asteroid target produces about 400 tons per second of thrust. Deep space interception of the asteroid provides enough time to shift the trajectory into a solar intercept course. This mission eliminates the threat permanently.
Planet Saturn has 82 moons. Titan in the Saturnian cluster of moons is perhaps the most intriguing of all. It has an Earth-like golden hazy atmosphere and a very low gravity [1.35 m/s*s]. Although temperature fluctuates in the subfreezing domain with a total lack of breathable oxygen it is not very hostile in relation to other heavenly bodies.
My goal of creating advertising layouts for the automotive industry is to change the very concept of building advertising images in the content of the semantic line of advertising projects consisting of the harmony of high technology and the perfection of nature in the future! Modern advertising has become formulaic and fractal,
Almost in all hospitals, an assistant/nurse is responsible for monitoring the electrolyte bottle level. Nevertheless, unfortunately, most of the time, the observer may forget to change the bottle at the correct time due to their busy schedule, specifically during this pandemic. Currently, hospitals use simple electrolyte bottles with no indication,
The Central Problem: People and production companies in the agricultural and livestock sector lack the generation of an important input such as organic fertilizer (ecological agriculture) with food supplements to improve their production.
The Causes: 1. Violation and non-compliance with legal frameworks, including municipal and regional ordinances; 2. Lack of environmental education for garbage management (solid waste,
OBJECTIVE:
To develop a contactless attendance system.
WORKING:
A unique RFID card will be programmed and given to a particular person; if that card comes at a particular range between the RFID reader, it will capture the radio frequency of the RFID card and stores the data and send it to the microprocessor (Node MCU).
Increased food and labor prices have caused profitability to become near impossible for restaurants and food producers. Consumer demand for convenience and variety has skyrocketed. Consumers currently spend seventeen days a year on meal preparation and cleanup or 325% more to eat out. Current solutions are no longer optimal or are not working anymore. They take too long, 
Problem Statement:
Elder people, pregnant women, and children with a heart problem should periodically monitor their health.
Due to COVID-19, they are unable to go outside and monitor their health condition.
This may also require huge sum of money.
Some people in rural areas don’t have any proper bus facilities to go to hospital for periodical testing.
A handheld induction stove powered by a rechargeable battery. It comes with a cooking cup(s) that can be affixed to allow movement while cooking and multiple users to cook separate items without a clean in between. PEG will consist of a ZVC module, a copper coil, and a rechargeable battery.
Over the last few decades, cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death worldwide. It is the unpredictability and random time of the occurrence that makes the disease more dangerous. The mortality rate can be reduced by continuous supervision of clinicians and early detection of cardiac diseases. Unfortunately, people suffering from sudden cardiac arrests have low survival rates.
Page 133 of 991
