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/2011
2011
Cool Tunes is a temperature regulating guitar case. Its goal is to aid in keeping a guitar in a safer temperature range. For instance, personally, when I play the guitar for church or at school, I have to leave my guitar in the car.
This project intends at improving road safety and controlling pollution effectively. It also helps in effective checking of traffic rule violations. Our motivation comes from the desire to sustain a clean environment by controlling levels of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere as well as to improve transparency in the traffic system by eliminating all loopholes that lead to corruption.
The Trekr Loop Handle© is a new handle design for mankind’s oldest and simplest machines: hammers, hatchets, pickaxes, etc. The loop design offers several advantages over the traditional handles. The loop end makes losing grip on the handle almost impossible; it would offer an ideal handhold if used on rock-climbing pickaxes.
It is estimated that nearly 2 billion people are using the Internet. Recent studies have shown that news and information are just as important to many of these users as entertainment or shopping.
Search engines are the only workable way to find information on the internet when the user doesn't already know what URL(s) to use.
The Trekr Design Erosion Control Mat © is made from discarded tires. The tires are cut in half along their circumference as one cuts a bagel in half. These are then joined in groups of seven by the use of stainless steel staples or hog-rings.
This proposal provides a CAD driven Robotic Application for Sprayfoam/ShotCrete for the construction of various sizes of residential Monolithic Dome Buildings. The intent is to provide via Computer Aided Design a Controller interface to automate the construction process.
Aircraft/micro-satellites/wearable canteen or backpack computers. All require reduced size & weight, and functional adaptations. The Nano-Frame concept requires the chip industry move forward to the System-On-a-Chip computing slices. This also provides the mechanism and future home for the evolutionary direction we are already heading. Reduced costs, weight, manufacturing efficiency; It all comes together here.
Directional Emergency Exit Sign - Fire Escape Aid
Using a standard illuminated door “Exit” sign, and mounting of “off the shelf” laser lights (example; used as presentation pointers), in outward pointing positions, at 90 and 60 orientations from the center line axis of the sign mounting face,
The Trekr Design Multi-screen Workstation © has four screens in a portable PC configuration. The screens have individual on/off controls, so even when not turned on, the additional screens act as a hood to improve visibility and privacy. My design makes them available in a laptop, as current video-card design and PC operating systems support multiple screens,.
What problem does your design idea solve?
My design idea proposes a sustainable domestic automatic watering system for small horticulture stations in apartments.
What are the potential benefits?
Using my sustainable domestic automatic watering system you can have a domestic horticulture station furnishing fresh ortages.
Page 52 of 74
