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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According to a recent survey conducted by the UN, the population of elderly people will increase to a large extent by the year 2020. People 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in the year 2000 but are expected to grow by 19% by 2030. Also,
The crankshaft has been used for over 136 years without any fundamental change to continuously convert linear motion to rotary motion and vise versa.
A rotary wing rapidly deployable aerial wind turbine
This design is an inexpensive and rapidly deployable alternative to installation of wind turbines. Although wind energy is the least expensive of all the alternative energy sources,
Every year chemical manufacturing companies spend millions of dollars and thousands of man hours attempting to increase safety and prevent dangerous chemical leaks and accidents. Regardless of these efforts, dangerous chemical leaks still occur. The US Chemical Safety Board, an independent federal agency that investigates chemical accidents,
Millions of endoscopy surgeries are performed each year in the US, with even more performed internationally. Endoscopy has advanced rapidly in the last twenty years. However, little progress has been made towards the development of a 3D endoscope system, even decades after they have been proposed in scientific literature.
Magnetic assemblies, for switching power excitation, using Sector Torus Core sections, in conjunction with round rod core sections,and two layer coherent windings, can weigh half as much, cost half as much, and have half the energy losses, when compared to assemblies in current production. Typical magnetic assemblies include Inductors,
What if sensors, meters, instruments were just Apps instead of single purpose, bulky, expensive equipment? Sensordrone is a first step towards making this a reality.
Mobile computing is the way of the future, but most sensor products have not kept up, and are still very expensive and bulky.
We come up with the solution of facilitating patients, doctors, and medical organizations by means of an application. Our product (i.e. HealShare) enables medical checkup summaries, test reports, and previous records to come online enabling global access of patient’s records across doctors, and organizations.
Currently airplane boarding procedures are based on zones prescribed from the type of airfare purchased. Other than first-class, special needs, or families, this is largely unnecessary and creates frustration when dozens or hundreds of passengers try to board, stow their bags,
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