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.

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A ‘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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Thank you from our Sponsors

“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”

— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”

— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics

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PaintCan: Automated Mixing Machine

PaintCan is a product similar to many types of standalone machine interface designed to streamline the process of selecting and purchasing paint in large home DIY stores. PaintCan allows users to customize the paint selection process without overloading service representative desks in paint departments.

Bridget Lewis
Springfield, United States

Votes: 0
Views: 5126

Consumer Products
Mar 3, 2013

Romantaque - Post Hair Removal Hair Minimizing Lotion

Romantaque - Post Hair Removal Hair Minimizing Lotion is a novel cosmetic that when applied to normal & intact skin after hair is removed by TWEP (Threading, Waxing, Epilation or Plucking) inhibits the hair growth increasing time gap between next need to remove hair session.

Bhushan Vishwanath
Pune, India

Votes: 2
Views: 6269

Consumer Products
Mar 3, 2013

Object Tracking Device

Object Tracking Device is otherwise known as an object selecting device. This can be done by using our eye. At the front of the eye, keep three layers of transparent sheets. The inner most layer has an ordinary transparent sheet.

Thilagan K
Chennai, India

Votes: 22
Views: 4563

Machinery & Equipment
Mar 2, 2013

Tuning the Sunlight

If I can to tune a broadcasting station, then I also can tune the sun's light because the light is an electromagnetic wave.

The tuning circuit (coil+capacitor) captures the electromagnetic signal from the light and generate
voltage.

In my country the resources do not exist for this project.

German Osorio
Buga, Colombia

Votes: 1
Views: 4266

Sustainable Technologies
Mar 1, 2013

Industry-Changing, Patented, Continuous, Highly-Automated and Efficient Manufacturing Process Yielding Benchmark Highly-Engineered Friction Composites

While there have been many technological advancements in vehicle braking systems over the years (4-Wheel Disc, Anti-Lock, Electronic Stability Control, etc.), widespread advancements in friction materials and their manufacturing processes are few. The problematic nature of today’s resin bonded metallic (“RBM”) materials (including environmental,

Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!

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Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories

A ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’

Thank you from our Sponsors

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PaintCan: Automated Mixing Machine

Romantaque - Post Hair Removal Hair Minimizing Lotion

Object Tracking Device

Tuning the Sunlight

Industry-Changing, Patented, Continuous, Highly-Automated and Efficient Manufacturing Process Yielding Benchmark Highly-Engineered Friction Composites

2013 Create the Future Contest

2013 Entries

2013 Participants

2013 Results

Entrants 2013

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Top Ten Leaders

#1 with 493 votes!

#2 with 461 votes!

#3 with 432 votes!

#4 with 392 votes!

#5 with 382 votes!

#6 with 379 votes!

#7 with 362 votes!

#8 with 335 votes!

#9 with 298 votes!

#10 with 202 votes!

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