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/2013
2013
Want to know what it feels like to be in space, without actually having to go into orbit or travel to the moon?
Space Synapse’s Earth Rider venture allows you to do just this.
In the 21st century, the word "safety" is the most important. There is safety equipment for all types of work, technical or scientific, but the cancer is increasing worldwide, a high percent of the world population dies of cancer and not have any kind of security for it.
Design of underwater cum aerial quadrotor
The basic idea of having a quadrotor that can be used underwater and in air is to improve the operating environment of the quadrotor. The quadrotors can be coated from Ultra-Ever dry to make them superhydrophobic (which would make it effective underwater). When converting from quadrotor in air to quadrotor underwater,
The large numbers of wheeled Mine Protected, Ambush Resistant (MRAP) vehicles being fielded around the world are excellent at protecting their occupants from blast, fragments, and small arms fire. These rapidly fielded vehicles share one critical problem: very high centers of gravity (CG) that makes them prone to rolling over.
The loss of vision through retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration is a slow torture many have been forced to endure. Retinal prosthesis are beginning to change all that though electrical stimulation. In a healthy human retina, there is a 1.5mm across section on the retina that is composed of an extremely dense patch of cones, known as the fovea.
In many areas of the world, the lack of readily available electrical energy, clean water, and employment opportunities are an interlocking problem that causes social strife, political conflicts, and limits the potential of millions of people. In a vicious circle, the lack of basic infrastructure limits the ability of an area to improve their economic condition,
The MonoCab VRT rapid transit system (patents pending) is different than other systems that have been proposed in that passenger and freight services coexist on the same system. It also services both local and long distance demand.
Transit speeds are 100 km/h (60 mph) in the urban environment and 200 km/h (120 mph) elsewhere.
Tsunamis are one of the highest impact natural calamities. In recent years have been developed, specially by Universities Research Centers, studies on the effects of these phenomena on the coasts where they hit and how to mitigate its destructive force, but not a universal tool.
The Rail Bus system provides intermodal mass transit with a single-vehicle system. Current intermodal passenger transportation involves locating infrastructure where different forms of transportation share common (often large) facilities, where passengers must switch vehicles in order to access another mode.
Power saving is the biggest challenge of today's appliances viz TVs, Laptops, Tablets and Smart Phones etc, both by AC and DC battery sources. I shall consider only the TV, while the technique could as well be adopted for rest of the appliances. TVs consume 3 to 8% of global electricity.
Page 6 of 69
