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.
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.
Click here to read moreA ‘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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Problem: The subclavian vein is accessed in about 2 million central venous access procedures performed annually in the US. This could be for hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients, delivering chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and pacemaker lead placement. Unfortunately,
The first mobile App that can protect you from vehicles: IoTs and Mobile App that sends the smartphone's GNSS coordinates to a cloud where artificial intelligence predicts potential collisions and then sends alerts to vehicles to slow down and trigger brakes automatically before any accident
Purpose of the idea: the creation of an advanced and economical solar-powered electric vehicle that does not pollute the environment, and also uses a motor wheel. The task of the idea: to create environmentally friendly and economical transport.
To counter climate change, the world is moving towards clean energy, but still, energy is generated through fossil fuel due to its need on a large scale. Therefore it is necessary to use our electricity in an efficient manner.
Falling is the leading cause of accidental death in the over 65 population, but unlike diabetes and heart disease, there is no early warning for it, until now. The Zibrio SmartScale is the first balance measurement device to bring cutting-edge science to the consumer market. 
A ventilator made from off the shelf industrial automation parts, recreating simple all-pneumatic (no electric power required) ventilators that have been in service continuously since the late 70's. This ventilator can be built from a kit with no special tools, and is easy to assemble.
Problem: Chaotic electrical activity of the heart (arrhythmia) has a tremendous impact on society’s well-being: Not only is it the number one cause of both sudden death and stroke, but it is also a leading contributor to congestive heart failure (CHF).
- Reversible operation of solid oxide cells will significantly increase market penetration capability of the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) due to the production of hydrogen and electricity at different operating modes. It can potentially address the energy storage grand challenge by leveraging hydrogen as the energy carrier medium.
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