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.
Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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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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Today, in the midst of our fast paced life and era of technology, a visually impaired person is still in a state of confusion as to how to reach their destination. Due to his impairment, the fellow is unable to find directions to the destination i.e.
Massive amounts of energy are used to propel vehicles through wind resistance. There is a worldwide environmental problem with millions of waste tyres from vehicles. I am attempting to use the idea to overcome the environmental problem as well as use the energy from moving vehicles to generate power to light up street lights.
Using a light,
Natura is a simple product which is inspired by a tree. The way water falls on leaves and gives a feeling of purity. The same way water falls on this product and you slowly see the water seeping down through the green filter sponge.
It passes through a charcoal filter and pure water drips into the water collecting container.
Lithos Motors is an automobile startup that focuses on providing innovative, clean energy transportation for urban commuters.
At Lithos Motors, we aim at changing the way India commutes. The world will shift to clean and green transportation solution in coming years, and we aim to act as a catalyst for this journey.
The planet is getting warmer day by day. Most climatologists regard the final decade of the twentieth century as the warmest in the past millennium. Even minor alterations in global temperature will trigger a series of weather extremities and alter the climatic patterns of the planet. Global warming effects on earth are caused by several factors.
Consumers are looking for new ways and ideas to protect their families and minimize the risks they expose their kids to. They try to ensure their life styles are healthy and that products and services they use on a day to day basis are safe and do not include harmful substances.
Airbee is a concept of small robots system,
Commercial Vehicles are tested to their limits on roads and in off-road conditions where the suspension is used to damp the sudden shocks and vibrations. This particular concept deals with harnessing the Vibration energy by means of Piezoelectric Transducers which convert it to electricity.
The disclosed engine addresses the problem of climate change by increasing engine efficiency and decreasing emissions. A conventional four stroke poppet valve engine is modified to include a novel rotary combustion chamber (RCC) serving all cylinders in the preferred four cylinder format.
Eye collar is a wearable device which is facilitated with real-time video recording as well as photography, rear alert to let know if someone is approaching from behind without notice, driving alert against sleepiness during long drives, and automatic backlight to enhance safety of foot passengers at night.
I have a means to regenerate liquid phase carbon while it is receiving contaminants such as hydrocarbons or certain chemicals. The carbon does not have to be removed for regeneration and it does not reduce in its ability to adsorb after regeneration. It is very inexpensive to regenerate and there is no breakdown in the carbon.
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