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.
Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories
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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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FlowIO is the world’s first fully integrated, miniature pneumatic development platform for actuation, sensing, and control of soft robotics and programmable materials. FlowIO was developed at MIT and deployed globally to democratize programmable matter; to make prototyping, innovation, and research with soft robotics incredibly quick and easy; 
SENSOR Time-Released Buoyant Container-Sets EACH Fill With Hydrogen & Oxygen GAS From Electrolysis Of Water At Bottom Of Tower → Constantly Lifting UP Ropes (Cables) On Pulley-Blocks To Rotate Electric Generators To Electrolyze Water As A Constant Buoyant Gas Source.
The problem:
We're not only solving for the current abysmal tractor-trailer 6.5 mpg mileage [$48,000 annual fuel expenditure per tractor using 2020 prices] but also enabling low cost, long distance transport, including cross country and high elevation routes, that are now impossible for e-trucks to traverse.
We are currently experiencing a time of technological transition in the trucks market. Both the way in which we transport the loads (vehicles driven in person, autonomously or remotely), as well as the energy matrix to be used (vehicles powered by combustion, electricity, hydrogen, etc.).
Life expectancy is projected to increase in the next 10 years, resulting in a growth of the population of adults over the age of 65. The change is imperative to improve quality of life and promote healthy aging, with the feelings of independence and emotional support by care robots.
Humanity is currently facing a crisis that is equal to or greater than the tragedies of World Wars I&II. At the current rate of environmental degradation caused by global warming and climate change, the planet may be uninhabitable before the turn of the 21ST century.
When it comes to exploring complex and unknown environments such as forests, buildings, or caves, drones are hard to beat. They are fast, agile, and small, and they can carry sensors and payloads virtually everywhere. However, to date,
Over the past several years we have been inventing a new internal combustion engine called the shock wave engine. Compared with the traditional engine's 30-40% efficiency, this shock wave engine would be in the range of 70% and higher.
Problem Statement: The solar industry struggles with fire. Historically underreported by the U.S. Fire Administration, fires at solar installations rose 36% from 2017 to 2018, with residential installations representing the majority of fires. Every year, arcing faults are responsible for 30,000 fires in the US,
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