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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Reusable noodle soup bag that can easily separate soup and noodles, and can rapidly mix them for an enjoyable meal.
The most annoying issue of taking out noodles soup is that noodles will be immersed in soup and soaked up the soup after arriving home. Consumers usually ask to separate soup and noodles into different bag,
Cold Springs and Solar Ponds as Natural Power Generators
Cold springs can be used to cool the cold side of Stirling Generators that when even air cooled have been shown by Sandia Labs to be more efficient than the most efficient photovoltaic cells.
An easy peel Deo is a paper-based deodorant container wherein you can peel the container for better usage. It is composed of a recyclable paper formed in a cylindrical tube with slice strips dashed lines.
Temperature being a very important concern to all warm blooded animals including human beings, every animal has its own temperature regulation mechanism to tolerate and/or adapt to the varying environmental temperatures. When the external/ambient temperature is not in the tolerable range of say 20 to 40 degrees (not referring to the standards here),
New multimedia language
We are still dealing with words, whose communicative system is writing based on the pen, now keyboard, as the main instrument and reflecting a six thousand years old technology, writing. The scope is to communicate a concept, an idea, an order, anything. For that purpose we must develop a new common language,
The Melni Connector is a revolutionary new electrical connector designed to splice secondary (600v and down) electrical wires in direct burial and submersible applications. We initially made a splash in the industry when we went on ABC’s Shark Tank to pitch our connector and get additional funding to bring our products to market. 
Inspection of tunnels or canals that are underground and in places of difficult access (e.g. mountains) can be very difficult and dangerous for humans. In the future, these operations have the potential to be performed by autonomous unmanned vehicles that can access much harsher locations and conditions. However,
As we all know, smart cities need a dynamic power generation system to fulfill the energy demand without any compromise and with ease. So for this we need smart grids which have the tendency to strike a balance between power generation and supply.
Generally there is only one way power transmission.
The JNX-1000 is an air bearing fast axis capable of 20g acceleration and 1000 micrometers of travel at a frequency of 100Hz and is specifically designed to cut non-rotationally symmetric surfaces. Very fast ultra-precision eddy current sensors are used for position feedback.
It is very difficult to dry clothes in rainy and winter seasons. But this product can solve that problem very easily. As per the sketch, there will be a tube and two blowers will be connected with each end of the tube. These blowers will work to blow the hot air into the tube.
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