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.
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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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Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a disease that affects premature infants. It is the leading cause of childhood blindness. Although effective treatments exist, many infants are still at risk due to the small window of time for detection. The current standard of care consists of in-person,
In 1989 the company that originated desiccant materials offered a new version of the material to the industry, which subsequently 100% refused stating they would be forced to re-educate their workforce. It remains today, the same scenario, patients,
Jaipur, a metropolitan city out of so many in India, has seen a growth of around 125,000 IC Engine Vehicles in past 5 years. As India witnesses Electric Vehicles taking over in 10 years down the lane.
We present the innovative hardware-software Intona complex to relieve emotional tension and stress with evidence of results. The complex includes the light-acoustic bed and the measuring device.
Emotional tension and stress are the main threat for health and business efficiency of modern people,
The proposed system represents a novel idea for efficient disposal of space debris present in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our system is designed to tackle space debris of the size in the range of 10cm.
Augmented reality is a field of research which deals with the combination of the physical or real world environment with the computer-generated data. It is a live direct view of the physical or real world environment whose elements are augmented (or created) by computer graphics.
Excessive search times is one of the biggest organizational wastes in a diverse set of work environments including a factory shop and a home environment. Over the years sort and standardization techniques like 5S have been developed to define and enforce organization.
Supersonic flight over land is currently severely restricted because sonic booms created by shock waves disturb people on the ground and can damage property. Innovators at Armstrong Flight Research Center are working to solve this problem through a variety of innovative techniques that measure, characterize, and mitigate sonic booms. 
The main concern of the future is the natural resources which are being consumed rapidly with greed undermining the consequences.The use of fertilizers may improve yields today but the impact is vast on soil texture and fertility. Also, it affects the ecosystem immensely.
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