Hack A Day are running the biggest electronics hardware design contest ever. The winner gets to fulfill every nerds fantasy, a trip to space!
The contest is to design an "open connected device". So basically anything that is open source (as possible), and connected to something (as possible).
Announcement - Hack A Day Prize - WIN a trip to SPACE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNnlPWvqEnI#ws)
Details: http://hackaday.io/prize (http://hackaday.io/prize)