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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The USA currently imports approximately four million boxes of green bananas per week from the growing areas in Central and South America. These bananas require specialized ripening rooms to convert them from the green, hard starchy fruit to the sweet tasting yellow fruit.
By engineering the fire extinguisher into an oval form, three common construction problems and code violations now have a solution.
1. With the OVAL fire extinguisher, walls can now remain at their standard depth if a storage cabinet with a flush door is desired.
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The need to belong and be socially connected is an important part of human well being. But often, when in social events, it can be difficult to start a conversation with a stranger even if we want to.
During the operation of nuclear power plants (NPP) mechanical properties of the structural materials can change due to several factors such as irradiation, temperature, load level and fatigue loading, corrosion, etc. Such changes in material properties influence the lifetime of the equipment (aging).
Geothermal energy* and over 60% of man made energy is wasted as low heat.
In some of these spy movie and action movies you see "the mark" get their keys picked, imprinted and cut (duplicated) by the master spy or even ultimate criminal. The "echo my key" aims to make this extremely difficult to do to near impossible.
A simple apparatus has been built which can be used to detect direct emanations from the visible planets, sun, and moon. The apparatus is shown in Figure 1, mounted on a six-inch reflecting telescope. It is simply a five inch diameter,
Electricity derived from SUN & WIND & WAVE & TIDE & Hot-springs is GREEN ENERGY. The ideal and highly desired situation that these green sources completely eliminate use of fuels of any kind to generate electricity, has untill now been impossible because they cannot supply electricity on demand.
I built a Garden Cottage for my wife and she needed a way to store the rakes, shovels and other implements inside the shop. I first made a shelve that had holes to drop the tools in. It was too difficult to remove them.
The concept involves a laundry basket incorporating a feature which will allow an individual to deposit clothing directly into a front-loading washing machine via a molded “chute.” Front-loading washing machines are becoming more popular,
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