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.

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A ‘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.

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Thank 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

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Zeus

Zeus is a global leader in advanced polymer solutions, helping customers overcome complex design and engineering challenges since 1966. Our polymer solutions include tubing, heat shrinks, and a range of specialty products such as biomaterials, monofilaments, and many more. A range of value-add services, including product assembly, are also available. Drilling, etching, fillers, flaring, flanging, and more, allow customers to further optimize products to their specific application needs. Additionally, Zeus services for the medical device industry extend to contract design and manufacturing, allowing customers a single source for catheter design, rapid prototyping, and manufacturing. For nearly 60 years, customers have depended on our best-in-class quality and technical support, global reach, and high-volume manufacturing capabilities to gain a critical competitive advantage in the market. From concept to commercialization, we are present every step of the way, providing products, services, and solutions that fuel product innovation. For more information, visit https://www.zeusinc.com.

Resources

  • Film-Cast Reimagined

    Thanks to Zeus’ proprietary film-cast process, which helps reduce surface imperfections and pinholes, StreamLiner™ NG catheter liners take flexibility, mechanical performance, and reliability to the next level while still featuring the exceptional sizing and tolerances of existing StreamLiner™ offerings.

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  • Scaling High-Performance Catheter Production at Speed

    Discover how innovative new manufacturing solutions can overcome this barrier to productivity, helping to simplify the assembly process, increase yields, and improve operator safety while accelerating ramp-up in catheter production.

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  • Transforming Neurovascular Microcatheter Production

    Innovative microcatheter technology and production techniques have enabled sophisticated treatments for patients with neurovascular conditions. However, manufacturers of these devices are faced with the challenge of delamination, which can have a serious impact on patient safety and production yields.

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  • Enabling Next-Gen Therapies: Bioresorbable Scaffolds Reimagined

    By providing engineers with a new polymer tubing platform specifically designed for BRS applications, next-generation device designs and therapies that once seemed unimaginable are now within reach.

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