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.
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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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Evacuation slides in airplanes are only used for evacuating people during an emergency situation. My idea is to use these slides to save people from an airplane crash as well as to identify the spot where the plane has crash landed.
Contamination of soil and water seriously threatens the environment and human health, our habitats are vulnerable and, with the growing population, in great danger. Ecological Space Engineering (E.S.E.) is conducting research to find solutions to this environmental threat and with pride we present the “mycoremediating biodegradable closed ecological system”,
This entry presents the idea of design and manufacturing of an automatic corrugating machine. This machine is used for automatic develop and creation of helical formed slits on heat transfer tubes. In other way,
This project is to fabricate a coconut husk remover with shell cutter. At
present coconut husk is being removed manually which employs more time and
more man power.
This 'Expander' enables a major improvement in Compressed Air Energy Systems ("CAES") used for storage and recovery of Grid-Scale energy. It eliminates the present burning of fuel during energy recovery. Instead,
A computational analysis is conducted to evaluate the effect of geometric features on crush behaviour. The objective of this project to modify existing frame for sports unity vehicle based on safety aspects. Reducing vehicle weight is critical to improving fuel economy, performance, size,
This is very simple.
An eductor is a very simple design, that in this case the "liquid impulsor" is a solution of Calcium Chloride (that is liquid at least under -50°C) to "disolve" CH4 Clathrates releasing the gas that will pump up a column of mud and gas.
3D Printing technology is expected to revolutionize each and every manufacturing industry within the next 2 decades. With this 3D Printer specializing in 3D printing of Braille characters on any kind of plastic packaging of common consumer products regardless the extent of existing surface curvature,
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another"- Albert Einstein.
Humanity has always challenged itself to lead the ongoing race of developing Sustainable Energy Resources,
A novel hitch system for remotely determining the tongue weight and total weight of a towed vehicle and other parameters without the use of a scale is provided.
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