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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Always when there are torrential rains there is a threat of flooding of basements of houses.
In such cases in each house it is necessary to have an inexpensive, effective special pump and independent electric generator.
Who was never shocked by millions of people driving alone in their family car going to work every day? The following invention can be a beginning of an answer, but not only.
In most hybrid vehicles of series-parallel or parallel type,
Generally, a LAN wire is used to access network communication (Laptop - Laptop LAN connection). But having additional pins than in a LAN wire, there is a chance of even charge transfer if required.
Black or dark colored in the winter and white, silver, or light colored in the summer, Color Shifting Energy Conservation Houses optimally absorb sunlight in winter and reflect it in the summer dependent upon the seasonal angle of the sun and intelligent use of color shifting paint.
My concept proposes for a remote controlled dog collar that works on the simple principle of electromagnetism.
USE:-Pet owners can unchain their dog or pet just with a press of a button it may be when it is their feeding time or when a thief enters a person’s home.
This novel electricity generator is capable of supplying all our power requirements, thus solving one of the earth's critical needs.
An electricity generator of this invention functions using known electromagnetic principles that simply have not been applied previously.
Classical industrial robots need actuators to be as stiff as possible for placement speed, accuracy and delivering high force. With robotics now moving into applications that require greater adaptability for handling soft or fragile materials and for avoiding injury when working with humans,
WhizzDrive is a disposable, hygienic attachment for an electric toothbrush which enables its oscillatory motion to be converted to pure rotation.
Benefits to the end user
WhizzDrive provides customers with a powered approach to several laborious oral and skincare regimens.
It speeds these processes,
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