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.
Listen nowThank 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
contest
Contest
The cranes that are used in hydrotherapy, most of all in swimming pools, are used to move up and down patients with some disabilities. Many of these cranes are hydraulic and maneuvered manually; only a few are semi-automatic and use an electric actuator.
Blindsight
Wouldn't it be great if blind people could be warned of obstructions and or dangerous areas ahead. With this device they could.
This device is a dispenser for a measured amount of liquid, bleach, water softener, etc., into a toilet tank with each flush. The valve works on the principal of differential densities between water and the valve shuttle.
The project proposes a model of variable rate automatic microcontroller based irrigation system. Solar power as known is used as a clean source of energy that can be used in any system and also it is used in this system.
Motion Sensing Delineator
Traffic Delineator Tubes are used in the construction industry to act as a visual barrier between workers and a safety hazard. They are typically a construction orange color, stand 4 feet tall, 6 inches in diameter, and are made of a heavy plastic.
“ Electro Magnetic Wave capture and controlling device. ”
Most people would have heard of Nikola Tesla’s experiments in providing the world with wireless electrical power, unfortunately he did not show any practical way of achieving it.
He may have been inspired by the Crystal Radio,
Apparatus and method of automatically removing a needle
Patent # US20170173272A1
United States
Concern in contemporary dental practice because of the underlying possibility of transmission of blood-borne viruses. The estimated transmission rates for hepatitis B (HBV) to non-vaccinated recipients,
1. IoT integrated remote sensing will drive and define Emergency Response, Homeland Security, and Industrial Safety
2. Accomplished through Cloud networked proprietary small, disposable, configurable,
"CATCH" is a low cost, user-friendly, self-testing device which detects HIV. In emerging nations, this promotes individuals (who are prevented from travelling for miles to see a physician) to test for HIV at home.
Unfortunately,
The wheelchair is the most important manual transport vehicle for any hospital, patient and adults. But carrying a wheelchair by staircase is very difficult or risky. Lifts and elevators are not available everywhere particularly in 2 to 3 story houses.
Page 267 of 986
