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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My submission is for a carbon neutral commercial aircraft propulsion. The propeller aircraft gave way to the jet mainly due to the large speed difference between the two. Propellers became inefficient at higher speeds such as Mach .
Perovskite photovoltaic technologies have opened new horizons for low-cost solar cells. To leverage laboratory-scale cells to modules, challenges in creating scalable fabrications, improving the high device yield, and extending the operational lifetimes need to be carefully addressed. Here,
This concept provides a method whereby identical dual radial gap motor modules can be joined together in a linear assembly for the purpose of incrementally increasing or decreasing the total power output available to perform a particular task.
Clock A as in the figure above is quantum mechanically enlarged to clock B along direction XZ in space and time. Light or radiation from B travels with the loss of time due to motion in free space and focused by magnifying glass on say head of person P.
Innovation: DOWSIL™ TC-5550 is a novel Thermal Interface Material (TIM) that manages heat in mission-critical microprocessors, enabling more compact designs, longer device lifetimes, faster speeds, and fewer catastrophic failures. The future will be defined by high power microprocessors for advances in Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things,
The main objective is to develop a FMS lateral navigation system 's prototype using webapps technologies.
The perception of our immediate physical environment plays a key role in the human experience. Awareness of our surroundings can be considered a primary survival sense second only to hearing and sight and, in many ways, opens a doorway to be human.
The Hexaviation Snowflake is a groundbreaking innovative design concept for an environmental friendly autonomous flying advanced passenger transportation system. The technology is based on a drone flyer using a double propeller vertical take-off and landing principle which is powered by hydrogen fuel cell units.
Concept:
Interactive headband with multi-spaced distancing sensors (optical & sound), attached to individual vibrating motors evenly spaced around the head to warn of impending side and rear impact.
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Amidst the pandemic and economic concerns going back to office remains a critical decision. Here we propose a contactless access and monitoring system focused on corporate employees’ safety. The system comprises 3 stages (a) attendance management, (b) contactless access control, and (c) social distance monitoring.
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