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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Rocken’s first innovative product is the world’s first helmet with a fully integrated visor capable of sealing against the face of the skier. When deployed within the field of view, the visor seals against the face to prevent cold wind from seeping in.
Today’s army relies on the water that it carries or acquires from the sources available within the areas of its operation. Water is both heavy and heavily used.
Each day millions of cars, motorcycles, trucks, aircraft and other forms of transportation emit brake dust and wear debris into the atmosphere from friction material as brakes are applied to slow and stop vehicles. I am commercializing a new green technology that has not been addressed previously.
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-IMAGINE A GEAR THAT EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED AUTOMATICALLY
-IMAGINE A SERIES OF GEARS THAT COULD CHANGE THEIR RATIO IN UNICINE
-IMAGINE THESE GEARS WOULD SHRINK AND EXPAND, DEPENDING ON LOAD INPUT!
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YES, TRULY AUTOMATIC GEARSHIFTING!.
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A shower that saves resources without restrictions
People want to conserve resources but without feeling that too much sacrifice is required. All water-saving showers restrict the flow and reduce the quality of the experience.
Suits for men and women are taken as examples of complex human clothes. Usually garments shops offer 4-7 different sizes of suits designed for standard people. No wonder, that many of them are left unsold wasting resources and money as standard people are not exist.
AIRPLANES TOO HEAVY....TOO WEAK...?
WELL, HOW ABOUT A BUBBLED ALUMINUM FUSELAGE?
CAR COMPONENTS? SUSPENSION? FRAME?
BUBBLED STEEL?
AN ENTIRE ENGINE BLOCK MADE OF BUBBLED METAL!
COMPLETE WITH THE BEST COOLING SYSTEM THAT YOU HAVE EVER SEEN! A WORT CHILLER AROUND EACH CYLINDER.
The proposed project is about generation of instantaneously Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) [2] to deflect or damp the blast load of the high explosive explosions. This method can be used as standard countermeasure against any type of warfare explosions.
The Concept for Corgan was inspired as contracting codes begin to implement a plethora of green and health initiatives into per-existing regulations.Pavlich plans to introduce the product into the market to alleviate methane and fecal particles found within bathrooms while simultaneously preserving energy.
A system for generating electricity in the offshore oil and gas industry comprises a wind turbine that can easily be moved along with a drilling rig or marine platform. The system provides a renewable and alternative to generating electricity, in the form of wind,
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