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
Present day energy such as fossil fuels, nuclear,solar, wind and others are either to dangerous or not dependable or what not. The idea I have come up with is "energy distancing". Build a thermonuclear generator, using the used fuel pellets from power plants, in a 1'x6' steel cylinder, to generate, at minimum, 5K electricity.
Government mandates regarding COVID-19 abatement strategies are forcing companies to scramble to find ways to avoid fines and even worse local outbreaks. In this new age, documentation and data is going to separate companies who survive and those who struggle.
Ergonomics International’s mobile compatible software provides employers with the tools necessary to identify at risk employees,
Patented method of safely straightening bent automobile wheels. The SEMA award winning process employs simultaneous dual-axis hydraulic pressure to gently relieve the molecular strain in the metal at the bend site. The process spreads the yielding forces over a wider area allowing for the minimal application of heat. 
Automotive suspension systems utilizing shock-absorber components are indispensable parts of electrical automobiles relying on rechargeable battery power. Suspension systems are a good source of kinetic energy. In particular, commonly used hydraulic shock-absorbing components contain mechanically closed-loop and fluctuating pressure environment with high frequency force variations subject to vehicle weight, vehicle velocity,
Imagine not needing ionizing radiation, test tubes, special cartridges, or consumable reagents. Recall how COVID-19 testing has been throttled due to rate-limiting supplies of a special new reagent for the new disease.
As a thought experiment, let us apply the "modern medical approach"
The purpose of the work: to increase and improve the quality of parts and assembly of gearboxes of vehicles, reduce the labor intensity and cost of manufacturing the gearbox, increase productivity in the assembly operation.
Project objective. To elaborate: the base table for mounting of all equipment, drive rotation, the bearing support for clamping the chuck,
This face mask will disable or kill pathogens, including viruses, with UV-C light.
The ordinary N-95 and other protective masks only try to filter out pathogens, as if they were simple particulate matter. Unfortunately, even a small percentage of a pathogen getting thru could be enough to infect you, so 95% may not be effective protection.
Newgen Gas is a National University of Singapore Spin-off Company with a revolutionary natural gas storage technology. Our innovative process, Solidified Natural Gas (SNG), allows for safe, cost-effective and long term storage of natural gas. We store natural gas in the form of ice-like compounds, gas hydrates.
Advanced Scanners has invented a 3D Machine Vision Platform (3D-MVP) based on uniquely capable, IP protected optical scanning technology. The initial application will revolutionize the accuracy and capabilities of image-guided surgical navigation systems (IGNS) to locate and treat target tissue.
We are a Korean company established in 2002 and we had patented our technology to make silver foam in 2006.
Design concept: We made silver foam with 99.99 purity silver metal to make 6000 times larger surface volume. Pure silver dissolves in water and it becomes a strong sterilizing solution.
Page 236 of 995
