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.
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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“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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While great at holding a large number of books, bookshelves can make it hard for avid readers to locate a specific title. This is particularly true for older readers, who may strain themselves looking for a specific title,
- Phoenix Single-Stage-To-Orbit
The Phoenix is a conceptual design for a completely reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle that can carry small payloads or passengers into low earth orbit (LEO).
Do you still use matches, lighters or other high-heat devices? I feel it is time to create a device that is a bit more "with the times."
My invention is for a hand-held, rechargeable battery powered, high-heat device or "electric torch."
This is the H.E.R.T.
Hi, I’m Steve Kaufman, founder of Hands-Free LLC.
We are launching into the $500 million orthopedic shoe market with Quikiks -The World’s First, Totally Hands-Free Supportive Footwear. They allow the 50 million Americans and 250 million people globally, who struggle each day with putting on their shoes,
I realize that this concept is too grandiose for the the context of this contest; but because it is something that our country desperately needs and something that we are destined to eventually have anyway,
Influit Energy presents a prototype design of a novel rechargeable nanoelectrofuel (NEF) flow battery (Figure 1). Our transformational approach uses advancements in nanotechnology and merges high energy density solid battery materials with flexibility of flow batteries creating new energy storage format.
Innovation
More than 200 million children in China and 37 million children in North America live in an environment with unhealthy air. Even moderate air pollution is attributed to reduced lung capacity in 1 out of 6 children and 10% increased chances of hospitalization.
Innovation
Air pollution kills 7 million people annually and has been linked to increased incidence of respiratory conditions. Exacerbation of respiratory disease symptoms due to air pollution is prevalent, affecting 90% of people with asthma. However, healthy people are also affected.
Some people with disabilities or weak joints wear braces to keep certain weak joints straight so that the wearer's own bone structure supports his or her weight. They also help to keep legs and feet in "correct" positions, preventing the development of, or return of,
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