Mouser Congratulates the Winners of 2025 Create the Future Design Contest
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader™ empowering innovation, congratulates the winners of the 2025 Create the Future Design Contest, a global challenge to engineers and innovators around the world to design the next great thing. The company, which has sponsored the contest for over a decade, was joined by valued manufacturers Intel® and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) as co-sponsors. The competition is produced by SAE Media Group, an SAE International Company, and Tech Briefs magazine. COMSOL is also a principal sponsor of the contest.
Together with Mouser and COMSOL, the SAE Media Group awarded the $25,000 grand prize to John La Grou of Diamond Springs, California, for imersiv, a breakthrough technology that improves audio performance by 100 times compared to today’s very best audio equipment for applications ranging from sound engineering to space missions to medical imaging.
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“It’s an honour to be part of this program. Congratulations to the 2025 Create the Future Contest grand prize winner and category winners, and special thanks to all of the participants for their entries,” said Kevin Hess, Mouser’s Senior Vice President of Marketing. “Mouser is dedicated to empowering innovation so we are especially excited to support this annual competition that fosters ingenuity and attracts forward-thinking innovators and engineers from across the globe.”
In addition to the grand prize, first-place winners were named in seven categories.
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Aerospace and Defense:
- Silent Sentry: A Software-Defined Passive Sensor for Counter-Stealth and Battlefield Survivability
- Robert Moerck, Værløse, Denmark
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Automotive and Transportation:
- Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System
- Mansour Masoudi, Mill Creek, Wa, United States
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Electronics
- Plastalyst – Chemical Recycling
- Robert Kunzmann, Hesperange, Luxembourg
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Energy, Power, and Propulsion:
- Rev Force: Ultra-Efficient Hydrogen Combustion for Clean, Distributed Power and Propulsion
- John Krzeminski, Fenton, United States
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Manufacturing and Materials:
- REACT®: Automated Capsule Recycling Technology for a Circular Coffee Industry
- Eduardo Perez Martinez, Madrid, Spain
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Medical:
- Blood Viscosity: The Next Vital Sign – A Wearable Breakthrough in Trauma, Sepsis, and Vascular Health
- Nilesh Salvi, Columbia, United States
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Robotics and Automation:
- Woodpeckr: Revolutionizing Utility Construction
- Christian Sforza, Waterloo, Canada
Previous contests have produced more than 16,000 design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs and students in more than 100 countries. The Create the Future Design Contest brings attention to product designs that enhance humanity, improve healthcare quality or help provide sustainable solutions. The contest was created in 2002 by the publishers of Tech Briefs magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation.
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