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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In general lots of research is going on about drag reduction and improving the aerodynamic efficiency of flight vehicles, by adopting various methods. The aim of the research is to perform a detailed study on the effects of surface roughness on flow over an aerofoil in the trailing edge.
Historically, lobe pumps have not had wide spread industrial use because of the problems of pulsating flow, large size due to low rotor speed and low NPSH. A company in California is testing a new design that will change all that. The new design,
Nowadays, all portions of automotive industry are being developed while the road limitations are still the obstacle of this development. GPS is an adequate product to optimize the route and reduce the journey time.
Drone Swarm Defense System.
• What problem does your design idea solve?
Countering extremely high speed, potentially explosive projectiles that are trying to blow up very expensive ships.
• What are the potential benefits?
Functioning defense, relatively inexpensive compared to what it is protecting. Easy to replace,
The Opposed Piston WAISSI ENGINE Provides Better Geometry and Inertia, Higher Maximum Piston Pressure, Lower Internal Friction than Any Comparably Sized Combustion Engine even the F-1 Engine
* The WAISSI ENGINE has the simplest possible opposed cylinder, opposed piston design. The design employs an integrated piston, driveshaft, crankdisk,
This innovative électrical roof opener is designed for slightly sloped roofing that is normally not habitable. By lifting the roof and reversing the slope, the prototype transform the roof into a beautiful terrace for outside living.
A car or handheld radio with a solid state hard drive to allow DVR like functions for your radio such as pausing, rewinding, fast forwarding. It would also allow for searching for favorite artist, song etc...
The New Transportation Infrastructure (NTI) is a peek into the future. The NTI is a modern, clean and inexpensive transportation system consisting of multiple level runways, each level holding a single-channel railway carrying light-weight, single-rider mini-vehicles. Today, we all want to “go green.
One of the primary frustrations of working as a pharmacist is the amount of time spent counting and sorting pills for patients and customers.
INTRODUCTION: In general, the mentally challenged people are either tied up with iron chains or hand-cuffed, which are a quite inhuman practice as well as unsafe process. To avoid such kind of harmful procedure, the Detention Chair is designed. Otherwise it is a normal chair,
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