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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This concept came after watching “The Martian” and seeing news footage of a earthquake relief camp. “The Martian” showed an inflatable habitat used on Mars, while the news showed people still living in nylon tents years after the earthquake.
Inflatable structures use an inflated spine to form the shape with plastic walls. More complex structures also are inflatable,
Our ultra-small inverter, designed in 2015, allows converting DC high voltage into residential AC voltage. A prototype was built in Q3 2015. Existing similar converters currently on the market are more than 30 times bigger.
Our tiny design enables new opportunities, especially in the renewable energy field. Indeed,
This program will collaborate with the skilled automotive technicians in Cuba to convert the hundreds of vintage American vehicles in the region from the 1950s to electric drivetrains, while maintaining their historic exterior bodies and interiors. Today most of these vehicles are operating on their 3rd or 4th gasoline or diesel engine drivetrains procured from Russia, Korea, and Japan.
The Problem:
In 2002, incandescent, inductive ballast fluorescent, HID lamps and resistance heating formed 50% of total grid load and were 100% stabilizing. Induction motors, which have a 60% destabilizing characteristic, formed the remaining 50%. The combined load had a weak 20% net stabilizing characteristic, when averaged over 12 months. Seasonal air conditioning loads degraded the situation.
The global population is growing at a compounding 1.3% rate. Society has begun to identify and work toward the need to maintain resource sustainability. A conglomeration of high school FIRST robotics teams will resolve these concerns with an automated renewable energy powered electric tractor, The Automated G.
The problem
We are at the beginning of an era of transport revolution, in which home deliveries will be mainly carried out by drones. However, the battery capacity of drones sets a geographic limit on the reachable areas.
The solution
Imagine your drone making a delivery. When the battery is running out of charge,
We are often reminded that we live in a global community. One of the aspects of this community is two measurement systems; metric and English. Equipment manufacturers and end-users must integrate components and apparatus that do not share the same measurement system. 
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