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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THE PRE -- A UNIQUE POWER DENSE & FUEL EFFICIENT 4 ROTOR 1 CHAMBER ICE
Planetary Rotor Engine Company (PREC) is a technology company formed to develop the Planetary Rotor Engine (PRE) -- a revolutionary engine design offering many advantages over the conventional piston driven internal combustion engines (ICE) that dominate engine markets today.
The patent pending WaterStrider is a multi-terrain landing system which works with the existing landing gear of the DJI Phantom 4 and Phantom 3 to allow easy and safe landings almost anywhere.
Take the sky with you leaving Earth.
Earth's atmosphere is a unique substance that people are looking for on other planets vainly. This light blue veil gently enveloping Earth gives us clouds of dream's star. How to take the sky with itself?
Aerogel will help us. Aerogel is a material that is 98.2% air.
This research presents an innovative application of evaporative cooling to provide thermal comfort in the cabin of slow and medium speed vehicles. Conventionally vapor compression refrigeration systems are used for air conditioning in automobiles which account for significant fuel/energy consumption under high cooling loads. Additionally, use of CFC based refrigerants imposes threat for global warming.
The instability in spacecraft was found to be the result of interaction between liquid lateral sloshing modes and the attitude control which tends to deviate the spacecraft from its trajectory. Sloshing phenomenon (refers to movement of liquid surface inside a container) can be seen in all vehicles that undergoes accelerated motion.
Seeds are the beginning.
In a tiny volume, millions of years of evolution, packed in a smart code, the DNA. As soon as the smart code is activated by sunlight, water and ground, information unfolds to create the plant, hemp. What better way to transport potentiality through space and express it at destination?
Ever increasing specific power of diesel engines has put huge demand on effective thermal management of the pistons for the desired reliability and durability. The life of the piston is related to the temperature distribution in it because of the operating variables.
My personal goal is to be able to use a quad-copter from my vehicle, i.e. to survey a crowded parking lot and locate an available parking space. So I want a convenient and secure way to transport, launch, control, retrieve and recharge a video-equipped copter from my vehicle.
Recently I invented a hurricane protective system for building external openings [1], which provides capability to release and remove shutter panels from the inside of the building. One of my friends joked that I invented this because of paranoia. Well, he may be right… However,
The quantity and quality of electrical energy available in a locality is an indication of the quality of life of those living there. The ease of power availability at a picnic or field trip location is cumbersome. To deal with this challenge gasoline powered micro generators are used. However these are costly to run,
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