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.
Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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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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Spontaneous, rushed, versatile,and impatient are all characteristics that we are starting to notice about newer generations. As we are moving more towards virtualization and automation, people want to be more mobile and less confined by the products or services they possess. The application presented here utilizes current technologies, data and software to provide, in near-real time,
Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease each year.
The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation estimates that more than 400,000 people in the United States and about 2.5 million people around the world have MS. These patients with different level of abilities need different assistive technologies to improve their quality of life. In addition to that,
There are known public advertising systems showing video clips, embedding a video screen and computer interfacing with data storage, where the advertising video clips are stored and shown in an order which is programmed preliminary or chosen randomly by the computer. The architecture of such system is presented in Fig.
‘SUNTIME’ is a portable solar food maker in which you can cook boiled and grilled food items. This product especially designed for use in cases like camping, family gathering, picnic etc, where you don’t have access to conventional cooking sources. This product is aimed to promote ‘Healthy food habits’ for urban lifestyle by understanding new generation problems and needs.
Spinal cord injuries often affect leg mobility where recovery requires rather painful and awkward physiotherapy. A device that reduces the discomfort and promotes confidence during rehabilitation is most valuable considering the magnitude of such a trauma.
The aim of this project is to eliminate the difficulties in polling and enable everyone to vote during the election days. The conventional polling system often fails to bring the voters during election due to various reason such as Non availability of voters at their place on the polling day, Disability of voters,
Infants or toddlers needs parents' attention 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, which is practically impossible due to other priorities like household activities, official works and personal works. Baby care centre or nanny are the two options available which involve lot of passion.
When a car accident occurs, the minutes immediately following the accident are crucial to provide assistance to people affected by the accident.
Most drivers now carry a Smart Phone when driving. Proposed app uses GPS and Accelerometer sensors already available on most Smart Phones.
The Orbital Engine was invented by John Patrick Ettridge from South Australia in 1969. His Provisional patent No.22884/70 has a priority date of 3rd December 1969 and Australian patent number 474336. This patent covered the use of two crankshafts geared to rotate together, or three crankshafts placed at 90 degrees apart, which imparted the orbital motion in the rotor,
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