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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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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The invention refers to a generator for thermal power and electricity with the electrical co-generator function, which, through the regeneration of a part of the energy consumed and by conjugation of the physical conversion phenomena developed during operation, converts the reclaimed energy in order to replenish the cogenerator.
This converter solves multiple problems for the energy industry. It can develop and modernize the national power system. Also, it can be applied to inventions that are superior to existing power technologies and it can extend the scope of theoretical research and practical application of energy systems.
Improving energy systems is done by increasing their power,
Proposed system harnesses microbial fuel cell (MFC) and microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) processes for treating wastewater (WW) at individual house and generating electricity and clean water. This system intends to conserve resources at the primary source, hence decreasing energy foot-prints.
A MFC consists of an anode, a cathode, a proton-exchange membrane (PEM) and an electrical-circuit.
Agriculture is very labor intensive field and one of the only fields where robots are not involved. Nowadays many industries are trying to reduce human labor by making robots and machines.
Sledovat is Russian for, "To Follow." Following a friend or family member in a vehicle has a number of problems. One drives too fast or too slowly, one takes a wrong turn or has trouble negotiating a curvy exit, one has car trouble, one or both are cautious or fearful in new or challenging situations. In each of these,
inexpensive stall warning device based upon known aerodynamic performance of airplane, balancing G-forces against force proportional to dynamic pressure. The basis for this idea evolved early (US 1,885,578 and 504,062).
Such an instrument may be an airtight case having upper and lower halves,
Today conventional Tube- or Profile Bundles are Hexagonal/Square or Rectangular in cross section and are made with the use of Wooden planks and/or Steel straps.
Our invention, using so called EPS-modules (Eco Pack Stack) has the following features:
SAFETY:
- The Modules fit into each other (like LEGO blocks) so that stacking & transportation is much safer.
The main aim of our project is to provide help as fast as possible at the time an accident occurs. The system placed within car keeps on watching speed of the car with the help of an attached tachometer. In case of any collision or accident situation, an ultrasonic sensor is attached with the system.
Electric folding bike
The convenience of an electric motor on folding bike encourage us to take longer, more efficient bicycle trips without the consideration and fear in having to pedal all the way back. According to the 2009 National Household Travel Survey, half of all trips in the US are less than 3 miles.
Unlike other traditional bicycles,
A wireless remote-control switch is an electric switch which is controlled by a radio or other signal and does not require an operator to touch the switch. The remote-control device, if electrically operated, uses batteries with a low, safe, voltage. Page 9 of 85
