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.
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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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BEEP BEEP BEEP. In a daze you wake up, fumbling for your phone. You check it only to find out it's not your alarm... and realize that it's your roommate's... again.
Being unintentionally awakened by a roommate's alarm is a common occurrence everywhere rooms are shared, myself being both the victim and the guilty one in this matter.
Low cost 3D ToF CMOS technology allows mass-production solid-states Lidars to
provide fast-motion sensing based on 3D imaging for Automotive Driving Assistance (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle.
About 1.25 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 15–29 years. Therefore,
Visual Ambrosia®, when you view it, instantly and coherently benefits The Future, with cognitively superior, graphically restful, colorfully alluring video distraction.
Why? Countless millions of video display screens, in every hotel/hospital/waiting room, have TVs. All viewers in wait areas, just by waiting, are prone, variously, to stress. Existing streaming news feeds and repetitive decorative landscape video programming,
Nowadays many people are annoyed by the car horns because sometimes they can be so loud that they influence people’s normal work or study. Sadly, we still haven’t got any related policy to supervise the use of the car horn. The drivers can press the horn at any time and place.
In the present world scenario, the search for effective utilization of renewable energy for power production is still under process. Renewable energy such as solar, wind, hydro energy is widely used for power production. Solar energy is available only in the daytime and can be used effectively in tropical and equatorial regions;
The objective of this project is to control the PC by accessing the desktop remotely. We can work as like as our normal desktop on Java enabled mobile phone. Mobile cloud computing can give mobile device users a number of compensation.
Innovation
Game discovery is patently broken. This makes it difficult for gamers to find/buy quality games, and for indie studios to sell their games. ProjectMQ solves both problems by curating the best indie games from around the world. We've built an invitation-only social media app where our users can discover high-definition multimedia from the best indie games worldwide.
The HarpArm™ is a magnetic harmonica holder that can be attached to all standard
microphone stands and boom stands that allows individuals with physical impairments related to holding items with their hands to play the harmonica and enjoy the benefits of playing music. The HarpArm™ is also useful for musicians playing other instruments,
The objective of this project is to make a controller based model to avoid accidents in blind curves. Here we used a sensor for sensing the vehicle. Collision avoidance systems are especially useful in bad weather conditions.
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