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
There is an easy, inexpensive way to locate aircraft like flight 370 in the future. Install an automotive type air bag in the tail or other parts of the plane with an automotive type crash sensor. The air bag would detach from the craft and float. The air bag would be equipped with a GPS,
This device uses manufactured containers which are connected via a modular connecter to heat fluids with solar energy. In essence, you reuse containers, connect them in series, and utilize the sun to provide heated fluids. There is energy saved by reusing normally discarded containers, and there is energy saved by utilizing the Sun for heating fluids.
YSATÎ at a glance (YSATÎ means pure water in Guarani language - the people who lived in Brazil prior America discovery).
Products and services: Industrial wastewater treatment reuse and organic-mineral fertilizer production
Customers: ethanol distilleries processing sugar cane in South America
Benefits: Substantial reduction of potassium fertilizers purchases,
Workstation for Cardiothoracic Surgery
The present invention relates to a Workstation for cardiothoracic surgery, and more particularly, the present invention relates to an improved sternal retractor having various attachments there on for assisting a surgeon during a cardiothoracic surgery.
This is a novel concept of a Work Station for Surgeon for conduct of Surgery especially Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Z.E.R.O ( Zero Energy Re Emitting Object ) works on the principle of magnetic force repulsion.
This concept can be used were we see scarcity of electric power.
The mechanism inside the box provides energy without any source or manual work done.
The objective of this project is to determine and analyze the flow through a V4 IC engine carburetor for single throttle opening condition (100% opening). The modeling of the product is done by Catia V5 R20. The model is developed with a throttle opening and closing mechanism. Polyamide (PA11) is selected as the material for fabrication.
The use of fossil fuels raises serious environmental concerns. The burning of fossil fuels produces approximately 21 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. The emissions from these fossil fuels contribute to global warming and also result in adverse effects on human health.
Many common crops could economically produce bio-fuel in certain parts of the world.
Our aim is to create Relief Vehicles for developing countries like India. Most of the cities in India have very narrow roads or lanes that cannot be easily accessed in times of emergency. We want to create a modification that is much cheaper, sustainable and available at a local level.
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), colloquially known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board having flight controlled either autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.
Electric Paint Spray Guns are used at execution of repair or reconstruction of buildings and premises. It is well known that in the course of work with Electric Paint Spray Gun it is necessary to execute a auxiliary operations which include transfusion of a paint and hashing for achievement to necessary viscosity.
Page 70 of 83
