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.
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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My entry is fairly simple since it just combines two existing technologies: voice recognition software has been in development for 10 years, and Google is about to launch augmented reality glasses, displaying text or any picture over the normal vision.
My idea is to create a magnetic motor, which requires an initial breakout, to begin an exchange of polarity which may extend to infinity. The polarity change can be accomplished through a PLC, rotates on its axis magnetic force to prevent friction between the magnetic field and rotation axis.
Worldwide, the majority of potable water is delivered through distribution piping networks. These distribution systems can be shared between anywhere from a few hundred to several million people. While this is the most convenient and economical system available for the delivery of clean drinking water,
The Solo high-performance, single-seat vehicle is designed to explore new ideas in personal transportation. The product of many years experience in the high-performance automotive, aircraft and composite-materials industries, Solo is ultra-light, highly fuel-efficient and offers the performance,
Uses two types of energy: solar and wind.
Dual power tower consists of three types of sections:
1) Solar
2) Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT)
3) Wind catching section.
Solar section consists of two glass tubes, one inside the other.
What could provide us with a significant prediction of an earthquake? What exactly are the symptoms of an earthquake? How far ahead can we predict an earthquake? Could electrical superconductivity in the rocks be used? Are volcanic eruptions related to earthquakes in any way?
WHY: Transportation is the master key to survival. A new mode of transportation (independent of diminishing fossil energy) is necessary to achieving an environmentally sustainable yet thriving economy in an urbanized world.
WHAT: ET3™ is literally ‘Space Travel on Earth,’ a global transportation system that is silent, low cost,
With the world using more and more new new chemicals in the manufacture of commercial products and military weapons, and with the increasing pollution at waste disposal sites,
With the multiplicity of aviation accidents, such as, but not limited to bad weather, engine problems, running out of fuel or even control system problems.
Consequences of these incidents include loss of human lives in addition to the loss of the aircraft. The idea came from here,
What does every industry want? A lighter and stronger material. I have that answer...
Compressed Polystyrene (CPS) is made using a unique process on expanded polystyrene (EPS) also known under it's common name as Styrofoam.
Compressed Polystyrene is lighter than aluminum by 150 pounds,
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