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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The Helio™ solar tracker is a mounting platform for solar cells and other solar collectors to improve their efficiency. A farm of modular Helio solar trackers can be wired together to supply the needs of a house or village.
NON-ENTRY INTO COCKPIT OF COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS FROM PASSENGER CABIN
My idea is simple.
Hijackers take control of airplanes by forcing their way into the cockpits by physical means or threatening to kill passengers or crew if the crew does not unlock the door between the passenger cabin and the cockpit.
I started driving in 1971. A good friend of mine drove a 1962 Nova convertible. It had a 327 small block and a Powerglide transmission. It was real fun to drive and my first experience with a two speed automatic transmission. This is how I first learned about planetary gear systems. In low gear,
Sky Train Corporation created an Innovative Transit and Alternative Energy System that conserves natural resources and improves quality of life. The Sustainable SOAR300 is technologically advanced electric transportation for moving people and freight, originally funded by The Technological Research and Development Authority. It’s powered by wind, solar,
The nearly omnipresent wireline telephone system has been trying to get Broadband digital information to the greatest number of users with some form of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) signals called Discrete Multi Tone (DMT). DSL-DMT is self limiting from intrinsic co-channel interference which gets worse as more customers try to get service through the same bundle.
The Waterdance Valve is a water-saving device that allows users to turn on the hot water faucet or shower, capture and cleanly store the cold water runoff normally wasted while waiting for the water to get hot, and then use that captured water as needed from the same faucet, all while requiring no electricity,
Passive microwave imager portable hand held imager concept is a device that uses passive microwave energy to image things much like a radar. My idea is to use miniterized technology to make the unit small and light enough to be hand held or possibly even fit in a large pants pocket.
Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal. Protected by the skull, early detection of a brain tumor only occurs when diagnostic tools are directed at the intracranial cavity. Detection occurs when the tumor is in an advanced stage significantly reduces the chance of successful treatment.
LucidBrake(TM) is a snap to use. Just attach to your bike and ride! Unlike the few struggling attempts at reasonable brake lights for bicycles on the market so far, there's no messy wiring, and no complicated attachment to your bicycle's mechanical brake system in any way.
A RADIATION-DOUBLER SUNSHINE CONCENTRATOR.
Units of “solar radiation concentrators” of this design are maintained in an orthogonal attitude vis-a-vis incident sunshine - by conventional technical means.
The plane-wave solar radiation that enters a unit's capture-window sees (due to optical for-shortening), a pattern of squares and trapezoids,
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