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/2014
2014
Gravity Machine
My Gravity Machines are not a theoretical proposal but are being built for the last 3 years. Gravity Machines produce continuously electricity out of a heat bath without the addition of any outside energy. This fact clearly contradicts present day energy views and teachings.
Toxic gas sensing UAV
The objective is to create a UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) with poisonous gas sensor as its payload. Airways are the modern and best way to cover large area with less time thus we used an UAV to carry the poisonous gas sensor. We can use this hybrid UAV to fly over the city,
The world is now developing rapidly with intensive road construction. However, with the rapid development of road infrastructure, the accident numbers are supposed to be greatly reduced due to enhanced technology but to no avail. The accident rate keeps increasing when there is a demand for development.
Beverages consumed by humans come in two mediums which are hot and cold. Hot beverages are prepared with the mixture of boiling water while cold beverages are readily available by freezing or by inserting ice cubes. This process takes certain amount of time for preparation of hot and cold beverages.
The Problem:
Visually impaired (blind) individuals rely on simple walking sticks for navigating around obstacles encountered in their daily travels. Advanced electronic walking sticks further provide early warning of obstacles detected by sensors, and vibrating of the stick handle. However, the walking stick is only useful if the individual already knows the way to the destination.
In view of growing demand for energy in developing countries like India, increase in global pollution and burden of importing fossil fuels, it has become inevitable to utilize the abundance of renewable sources. India, lying in the tropical region, is blessed with high solar-insolation. Hence Solar Energy can provide a long term sustainable solution to this energy crisis.
Brief description from Fig 1 (In attachment)
1) Aluminium fabricated frame has four adjustable catchers which are mounted on a lead screw. This lead screw is rotated with the help of 2 stepper motors +/ - X axis & +/ -Y axis , which can be powered by a Lithium battery mounted on an aluminum frame.
W.A.N.D (Wound Analysis Device) is capable of analyzing wounds using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging Technique (LSCI). This device consists of 14 lasers of different wavelengths viz,650,785,850,980 nm. These lasers illuminates the region of interest (wound) sequentially and the camera captures the images. From the acquired images,
The present invention relates to an engine control system for enhanced fuel economy and vehicle performance.
Motion Sickness and spatial disorientation have been acknowledged as a widespread problem, affecting a significant portion of world population to varying degrees. Up to 60% of the population has some motion intolerance. The occurrence of motion sickness can approach 100% in cruise ship passengers on rough seas. Seasickness is also frequent among naval personnel,
Page 25 of 83
