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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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.
Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories
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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Problem we are trying to address:
The soldiers at our borders and war zones are affected by climatic changes, get wounded badly and lie unconscious. Also in disaster zones, civilian victims get caught in debris of buildings awaiting rescue teams. In current scenario,
LockSec Password Manager will become the only password manager tool anyone would ever need. In contrast to currently available software and password managing tools, LockSec will introduce revolutionary innovation in the field of security and password management with new cross-platform and cross-website integration of the tool.
Throughout the years, the railways system has undergone many accidents at level crossings and accidents due to poor visibility which have caused harm to countless lives of people and has also cost the railways a large amount of money. So, to rectify this problem,
This is a deployable storm shelter mounted to posts that penetrate a homes slab and concreted into the ground below the slab. When not in use the shelter is covered by a furniture quality covering, TV wall, book shelf, etc.
Pollution and especially air pollution has always been a serious threat to the environment. One of the very important factors responsible for air pollution is the emission of gases from the vehicles such as CO, HC, NOx etc which degrades the environment.
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