Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.
Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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 Past Winners’ Success Stories
Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
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.
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Hello everyone. I present you a project to recover technologies to be used for aerospace vehicles for land-moon transport and for trips within the solar system.
Boron fusion reactors fuse 2 atoms of Boron into a heavier element using high powered lasers and provide clean energy. This technology has been proven to be cost effective and produces a lot of energy.
The Concert Hands System (CHS) is the first to utilize Robotics and Haptic Technology to teach piano playing in a new and non-traditional way. The future of piano learning is here.
The COVID-19 Crisis
Most efforts to come out of the COVID-19 crisis are related to vaccine or easing the symptoms. While these directions are actively pursued, many businesses are going down.
However, there is an alternative that can rid the world of the virus,
Southern California suffers from drought conditions and reservoirs are being reduced at rates greater than they are replenished. The Pacific Ocean borders the California coast but salt water is not acceptable for agriculture or consumption. My idea is to use renewable,
A third-generation solar photovoltaic (PVT)and thermal panel was developed and patented. Its field tests have began both in the north Netherlands and Turkey to cover the entire climatic spectrum of Europe and other countries on the globe. This technology has the following attributes,
Analysis of Farm Data
Mapping of farms, acreage, yield with GPS-enabled sensors which would be used to receive data for the different stages of crop development during the entire growth cycle.
Identification of necessary inputs via AI-enabled platform
Using available literature,
There is an increasing number of home devices connected to the Internet to make our lives more comfortable, from televisions to refrigerators, which is known as IoT. Considering this I have developed a pencil holder with an interactive to-do list, which integrates a screen and a gesture sensor.
Litterbug was created in 2018 as a solution to the overwhelming amount of paper cups littering the streets, nature-strips, and storm water catchments.
Litterbug cups are embedded with seeds and can be planted to grow regenerative food.
After completing the successful testing phase,
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