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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The uRADMonitor AIR is a small device with an opto-electric Particulate Matter sensor that tracks your environment wherever you are. It shows the best routes in town for doing jogging, cycling, or taking your kids for a walk. In the background it contributes with valuable data to pollution mapping across wide areas.
Healing of wounds for diabetics could be one of the most difficult challenges that diabetes causes. This project aims to help diabetics to heal their wounds using 100% natural herb with low cost. Through using Conyza Canadensis we can extract a variety of chemical compounds that enhance the process of healing and encourage metabolism such as: Flavonoids, Gallic acid,
MANTARAYA PROJECT
Free diving for All
By Jean-Pierre GALLO Engineer/Professor
I designed the Dynamic and Active Orthosis concept which can be used in association with the underwater traction device "MANTARAYA", created a few years ago. This is a concept enabling both paraplegic people and sportive divers to swim underwater the same way as dolphins.
The present experimental work aims at investigating the effect of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles addition in Calophyllum inophyllum biodiesel in a twin cylinder water cooled direct injection four stroke diesel engine. The nanofluids have been prepared from 50 ppm and 100 ppm concentrations of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide with distilled water through an ultrasonication process.
Abating global warming will require capture of CO2 from existing facilities such as power plants. However, existing carbon capture processes are too costly mainly because of the excessive power necessary to compress flue gas, and the lack of processes that convert CO2 to valuable products to offset the cost of capture.
Tunable lenses, lenses that can adjust their power without lens assembles. These lenses are made by entrapping liquids in clear elastic membranes and actuated mechanically (by pressure) or electronically (bellow actuators). These lenses have been out there for quite a while but their full potential is not yet realized due to aberration inducing spherical profile,
This concept is actually two concepts; my modified light-field array 3-D Pixel Unit and my concept of the Light-Interface, both working together to send light through an object to render it invisible while producing a holodeck within the inner Light-Interface itself as a by-product of sending light through an object in the first place.
From California, South Africa to Sydney all cities have water supply problems. With climate change water is a future issue. Washing machines use lot of water. City water use for washers is huge. Front loaders are costly to maintain, buy, run with high detergents that pollute water bodies. Top loaders are cheaper, easy to use.
Moving home ? Tired of your lamps ? One of the most cumbersome tasks is to fix a new lamp to the wall or the ceiling. Instead of holding the lamp with one hand, fiddling the cable into the terminal, holding the terminal and tightening the screw all at the same time,
The world is striving towards making things a lot better and efficient. Similarly, this project also aims towards the same. This is an aerial vehicle, where the major aim is to make the surveillance purpose better. And hence,
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