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.

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A ‘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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”

— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

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— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics

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Capsule Vaccine

Capsule Vaccine is a simple, disposable vaccine syringe designed initially for the people of Africa. The biggest feature of this vaccine syringe is that it is simple and convenient to operate. Users can make their own injections,

Raffaele Manica
Torino, Italy

Votes: 3
Views: 1740

Medical
Mar 16, 2020

Elinfect / Vaccine Syringe

Elinfect is designed to force the vaccine syringe to become disposable so as to completely eliminate the infection caused by repeated use of the syringe. Therefore, two protrusions are added to the bottom of the syringe. When the syringe is pushed to the bottom,

Raffaele Manica
Torino, Italy

Votes: 0
Views: 1642

Medical
Mar 16, 2020

Accompanying a Flower Pot

Nowadays desertification is no longer a purely ecological and environmental problem, but also an economic and social problem, which brings poverty and social instability to human beings. For those threatened by desertification, it means that they will lose their most basic subsistence -- a lack of food.

Raffaele Manica
Torino, Italy

Votes: 1
Views: 1800

Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy
Mar 16, 2020

Personal Isolation Room

I have been reading and hearing that the United States is very short on hospital rooms where people infected with this new virus can be isolated to prevent the spreading .

I think I have a very simple solution that can be produced inexpensively,

Randolph Garrison
Virginia Beach, United States

Votes: 0
Views: 1197

Consumer Product Design
Mar 16, 2020

1 Hand Dual Fastener Manipulation Device – Patented Invention

One hand replacing two-hands to perform dual fastener fastening or loosening, the “1 hand DUAL FASTENER MANIPULATION DEVICE" can be used to manipulate two fasteners with the same axis of rotation and to manipulate the fasteners of the same axis of rotation separated by the intermediate material,

Xiaoming Tan
Rockville, United States

Votes: 1
Views: 2102

Consumer Product Design
Mar 14, 2020

Torque Stablized Vertical Lifting System

Classically trained engineers have been left with the impression it is impossible to control 100% of the torque generated by a single lift rotor, using only the downdraft, within the same diameter as the lift rotor,

Charles Medlock
Hot Springs Village, United States

Votes: 3
Views: 1694

Aerospace & Defense
Mar 14, 2020

UCHardChip Inc.

UCHardChip Inc. Overview:

Carpenter and entrepreneur Ulysses Dinkins formed UCHardChip in 2016 to develop and sell personal protective equipment (PPE) like hardhats that enable hands-free communication with embedded electronics and supporting software to improve safety and productivity in the construction industry,

Ulysses Dinkins
Marshall, United States

Votes: 6
Views: 2100

Manufacturing/Robotics/Automation
Mar 14, 2020

Maternal Cooperative

An Outline Mitigating the Effects of Economic Competition on Homeless Mothers

Abstract:
The “Maternal Cooperative” is an effort to better support high risk single homeless mothers and infants in the first few years of bonding and development.

Craig Coppock
Mossyrock, United States

Votes: 1
Views: 1395

Medical
Mar 9, 2020

Solar Bee Drone

Bees and other insect pollinators are under threat globally from multiple human pressures. If pollinators disappear completely from an ecosystem, their loss will affect structure of those ecosystems and the natural foods and fibres we use from the ecosystem. So,