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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Every car does bump while it runs. It is seen more with passenger bus’s back position. We can extract electrical energy from an electric bus. The amount of power that is extracted from it is more than its expenses for running.
In this world where traffic can get into your nerves and stress your life out from work to home,
Design brief
To design a renewable energy powered and portable water pump that can provide a viable alternative to diesel-driven ones
Target user group
Small and medium-scale Indian farmers in Bihar state
Mandatory requirements
- Portable
- Robust and locally servicable
- irrigate one
Conventional exoskeletons are powered by a system of motion sensors and hydraulics, various problems like:
1. Very high cost of these parts result in high maintenance and electric power supply and these issues are still to be resolved.
A design concept for a trackless multi-dimensional ride vehicle. Using four independently controlled wheels this system will be able to simulate a vehicle out of control all while being in complete control of the system.This is accomplished by a base that can move in any direction and rotate.
My idea concentrates of how to take advantage of the front area of the car already exposed to the air resistance to convert from the negative energy into positive energy.
A heavy lifting rocket launcher using a 10,000' vertical shaft and a water reservoir.
The Kidd Creek mine in Ontario, Canada has reached a depth of about 10,000'. It is an active mine with about 10 to 20 years of life left.
Autonomous Quadcopter Launch and Retrieval System
Quadcopter drone technology exists that is capable of performing many tasks to assist people in everyday life.
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