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/2016
2016
Cell phone with breathe analyzer, US Patent 8,560,010 utility patent, is designed to test a driver's breathe for alcohol before driving a vehicle.
It works by breathing or speaking into the phone before driving. The first screen you enter phone numbers of people you should not call while you have been drinking. Ex-spouse or girlfriends, family members,
This project was inspired by the overwhelming number of new 'innovative' products on the market. So may gadgets and gizmos exist to help us with everyday menial problems, we often forget to appreciate the things around us. I decided to focus my project within the bathroom,
Multi-pressure gas turbines are modified versions of intercooled recuperated gas turbines (ICRs). They extend the more than 40% efficiency of ICRs at medium and high power down into the 5% power range.
The SuperCritical Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP) provides breathing air and full body cooling for hazardous materials workers, firefighters, and industry. Breathing air is essential for workers under oxygen deficient conditions or where toxic gases are present. In addition to providing the basic air supply, SCAMP solves the major, 
SPOT tells you how effective your sunscreen is all day long! SPOT is easy to use: you put SPOT on, then apply sunscreen overtop. While your sunscreen is protecting you, SPOT is white. When your sunscreen has worn off,
Future Aerospace Assembly using HMI and Robotic Riveting (or Fastening)
HMI is Human Machine Interface and in the context of Robotic Riveting refers to the Riveting Team....the Riveter and the Bucker (the upper sidebar shows a classic Riveting Operation).
Combined Car-Aircraft-Hovercraft transportation system||Overpass transportation system||Fastest Ambulance in the world.
Design Statement
Vehicle has combined features of a Car|Aircraft|Train/Skater|Hovercraft. It looks like a car, has 2 or multiple renewable energy powered propulsion engines as per need mounted on both side wings left and right side respectively.
The Helixator technology has been developed in the last years to provide architects and city planners a new tool for designing cities. It is a highly flexible escalator system that allows construction of escalators in any given geometry, including strait, curved and helical escalators.
The idea to build such escalator systems is not new.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has created a revolution in U.S. health deployment. In
addition to facilitating affordable health insurance for all citizens, the government aims
are to have universal digitalization of health records, have them easily and safely
accessed, and to encourage their use.
PHR-Rescue provides an identity theft-proof, transportable method for creating and
My idea is to create a sun-driven motor using Nitinol (nickel-titanium) memory metal. The concept is to orient memory metal bars around the inside of a ring similar to spokes in a bicycle wheel, but pulling all in the same direction. Each “spoke” would be connected to a ratchet assembly tangentially,
Page 19 of 85
