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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FRESH is a simple clay refrigeration and water filtration system for impoverished families in Gujarat, India. FRESH is made from local materials and builds upon existing skills sets of Gujarati potters. ClayNation is the organisation behind FRESH, providing training and equipment for low income potter families and sales/distribution networks.
Adjustment of the compression ratio in a running piston engine as a function of operating conditions is recognized as an effective way to improve both light load efficiency and maximum output torque, and is perhaps the last major efficiency improvement available to piston engines in the quest to reach the 2025 CAFE standard of 54.5 mpg.
DelfJet is an emergency water scooter special created for lifeguards. The idea of this project started from the need to save the lives of people in danger of involuntary drowning, and to shorten the time of the emergency intervention in these situations.
Studying the life-saving systems but also the watercraft transportation that already are on the market,
Everybody that owns a house should probably do this and I'm sending this hoping someone notices. Foil sided insulation board laid over existing roof decking, foil up. 2 x 4's laid flat on insulation board over joists and screwed down. Another layer of decking, paper and shingles over 2x4's.
This project is designed to aid patients unable to manipulate their hospital bed controls yet healthy enough to want to raise and lower their head, knees, feet or bed frame. Voice control is used via microphone or wireless wrist band.
After powering down then up, the program prompts the patient, using an onboard speaker,
Built around base rails and locking clips, CRAIL is a mounting system designed for reliable and accurate attachment of devices in a large variety of environments. Its functional and aesthetic characteristics however make it particularly efficient for locations with challenging installation requirements such surfaces that cannot be modified through drilling,
ECE is an external combustion thermal engine with no moving parts.
Through thermal cycles of free-electrons in metal or semiconductor, ECE converts thermal energy directly into electricity in high efficiency.
Potential applications of ECE can be:
1. Range extender for electric vehicles (EV).
2. Concentrated solar thermal or nuclear thermal mega power generator.
Fuel-Air Injection (FAI) Engine is:
1. A two-stroke engine with fuel and air injections.
2. A hybrid engine with an air motor built in the cylinder.
3. A high thermal efficiency pulsating rocket engine with piston and crankshaft as its output.
4. A clean combustion machine with gas expansion precisely controlled by digital fuel and air injections.
Hi, I’m Jon, the inventor of mifold, the Grab-and-Go Booster Seat. When my four children were small we lived in America. Our children were being driven everywhere by other people as well as ourselves.
Car safety is important to us and we wanted to make sure that the kids always had the correct car seat,
Through intensive research and development, Ulectra Corporation has successfully developed a unique power cable that allows the installer to pull all wiring in a single run. SIMTRA Cables allow electrical power to be commingled with any low voltage communication circuit within one conduit or pathway.
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