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.
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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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Air pollution is the number one cause of death in the world. Traffic pollution causes tens of thousands of deaths each year in the USA alone. Most people get their highest exposure in traffic, inside their car. Car manufacturers have been working on the subject for years using sensors,
EyeGuard is a revolutionary small device designed for people with eye illnesses and those who frequently use computers. Easily installable on any pair of glasses, EyeGuard is virtually unnoticeable due to its compact size and comfortable fit.
Problem Solved
EyeGuard addresses the need for continuous eye health monitoring,
NavTrack is an innovative indoor navigation and occupancy monitoring system that utilizes cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize the way people navigate large building complexes. Designed to address the challenges faced by occupants in finding specific locations within buildings and ensuring their safety during emergency evacuations,
Power in rotating machines is the product of torque and angular velocity. Present day machines are low torque and high angular velocity machines. CHALASANI TURBINE is a very high torque and low angular velocity machine. Wheel and axle mechanical advantage is a well known concept.
A new concept for a Radial Internal Combustion Engine. Simple, Low Cost, Low Speed, High Torque that can run on almost any flammable fuel. It can be used in a small scale for remote Water Pumping, Electrical Generation, etc.
The CBAG (Configurable Buoyancy And Geometry) semi-rigid airship overcomes all of the disadvantages of earlier airships. It is simpler, lighter, stronger, smaller, cheaper, and several times faster than any rigid or non-rigid air-ship of a similar load capacity.
Aircraft and other vehicles are out of control. The loss of property and lives is very costly. Why do drivers pull out at a stop sign into the paths of motorcyclists? How can a person unwittingly crash into a brick wall with their foot on the accelerator?
Individuals who have suffered neurotrauma like a stroke or brachial plexus injury often experience reduced limb functionality. Soft robotic exoskeletons have been successful in assisting rehabilitative treatment and improving activities of daily life but restoring dexterity for tasks such as playing musical instruments has proven challenging.
Revolutionizing Gene Therapy Delivery with Polymeric Nanoparticles (PNPs) and the HIT SCAN™ Platform
Delivering the Promise of Gene Therapy
Gene therapy holds the potential to cure genetic disorders by directly correcting underlying genetic defects. However, the delivery of genetic therapeutics to target specific cell types remains a challenge.
In today's world, we find many issues and requirements at many places during our travel from Source to Destination. However, we would like to see continuous improvements in those places. Many of the times, it is not an individual problem, but it belongs to the entire society. For example,
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