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.
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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.
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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There are two main types of incubators in common use today: Still Air and Forced Air Incubators. Both incubate eggs in an enclosed environment such as a styrofoam cooler, carefully controlling heat and humidity.
The Bardo Airway (Patent Pending) is a revolutionary oropharyngeal airway that establishes and maintains an open airway and also prevents dental and soft tissue damage.
The Problem:
•Dental injury is the most common medicolegal complaint against anesthesia, accounting for greater than 33% of all complaints.
The Salsabol is the obvious solution to a problem almost universally faced by anybody who is a fan of chips and dips. When scooping salsa in traditional bowls,
Many people have jobs that require copious amounts of typing. Standard keyboards facilitate disorders such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and repetitive stress injuries. The reoccurring motion involved in typing puts strain on the nerves and tendons in the hands, leaving many unable to do their jobs.
Space flight, satellite communication, and global navigation have become ubiquitous parts of our lives. The uses for space technology grow with each passing day, and there is a pressing need to continuously innovate the ways in which we access space.
Earthquake Safety
The Baumann Energy Dissipating Rebar Coupler™ (BauEDRC™) will be used to rapidly construct all types of earthquake resistant concrete structures such as school buildings, bridges, apartment and office buildings.
The BauEDRC™ could also be used to construct blast resistant structures.
Decorative light fixtures are sent out automatically by way of a track & cable assembly. The track mounts on the face of a building or the backside of a house facia.
We are seeing a tremendous increase in efficiency of vehicles by using diesel and electricity in a hybrid configuration.
Perhaps this is time to combine the natural gas many have available at our home and which is a produce if the USA, for home power.
Prof. Sailor first proposed one could use “smart dust” for the sensing of analytes several years ago. Smart dust is especially suitable for standoff detection which takes place at greater distances from people and assets to reduce the potential for severe damage. So far,
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