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.
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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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S-Band Strap: A simple tag/wrist strap with a QR Code that launches the healthcare data of individuals administered Covid-19 Vaccines.
Problem: Exposure, Exclusivity and unsafe means of tracking the health data of individuals who have been administered vaccines.
Our drone is all about situational awareness. See everything in 8K 360 degree video.
The Hawk21 was designed with the professional high end content producer in mind, in TV productions, cinematography, documentary, commercial and PR productions, inspections and surveillance,
Plastic waste pollution is an increasingly prevalent environmental issue around the world. Many companies produce plastic waste through their manufacturing processes, and resource-limited environments - isolated island populations, natural disaster locations, remote operations, and more - continuously bring in plastic products that end up as waste. 
I am deeply concerned about the epidemiological situation in the world. We can stop the pandemic if we observe safety measures and use protective masks and antiseptics. But not everyone in the world does it. Therefore, I developed a special pocket case for mask disinfection.
Teleportation, or the ability to instantly move people and objects from one place to another, can easily change the direction of the development of civilization. Teleportation of physical objects without violating the fundamental laws of physics, without using exotic masses, energy, warp drive,
Regardless of a number of speed ratios ("speeds"), the transmission of existing electric vehicles always operates with a single degree of freedom(DoF): the required vehicle velocity results in strictly determined speed of the electric motor(s) propelling the vehicle. Of course,
When you are thirsty you are already 10% dehydrated, and the adverse effects of this problem range from dizziness to, for the most severe cases, a heat stroke. So far, no method or device has been able to predict when the time will come for dehydration.
Parcel transportation system (PTS):
For parcel transport, a small networked system denominated PTS Parcel transportation system will allow instant parcel transportation between different areas of a city or territory.
PTS is an independent system to move small packages or parcels,
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