Congratulations to all the 2012 Contest Participants!
Grand Prize
Sensordrone: a Practical, Tricorder Like Platform for Consumers and Mobile Device Developers
Mark Wagner, Sensorcon, Buffalo, New York
Category Winners
Consumer Products
LumEN: Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Sustainable On-Demand Electricity Production
Gianmarco Griffini, Massimo Micocci, and Francesca Ostuzzi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Medical
Prosthetic Leg Connector
Dave King, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Electronics
Cloud and Smartphone Accelerator
James Awrach, Beverly, Massachusetts
Machinery & Equipment
Thermal Stir Weld Process
Jeff Ding, NASA, Athens, Alabama
Safety & Security
LIFE PACK – Hypothermia Prevention Floatation Device
Dwight and Jane Cushman, Portland, Oregon
Sustainable Technologies
Aquaback Water Purification System
E. Andrew Condon, William Zebuhr, Scott Newquist, David Dussault, Steven Sahagian, Nicholas Wong, Michael Easton, William Burie, Charles Blanchard, and Nicole Sandoval, Aquaback Technologies, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Transportation
Re-Thinking Automotive TPMS
Ivan Batinic, San Martin, California
Top Ten Most Popular Entries
Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3)™
Daryl Oster, ET3 Global Alliance, Longmont, Colorado
Benchtop Pomegranate Deseeder
Uddhab Bharali, North Lakhimpur, Asssam India
Making Fuel from Vehicular Emissions
Jaideep Singh, Delhi, India
Multi-Function Photocatalytic Solar Desalination
Amin Taheri Najafabadi, Vancouver, BC, Canada< /p>
Adaptive Smart Home Technology
Amit Badlani, Bangalore, Karnataka India
Virtual Walking Stick for the Visually Impaired
Jonathan and Maxwell Tolstedt, Fargo, North Dakota
Inoculation Monitoring Device
Avantika, Patna, Bihar India
Solar Boiler Electrical Generator and Heat Machine
Matthew Davis, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Design and Development of a Multi Stage Contra Rotating Mini Axial Compressor
Amit Mangtani, Apoorv Maheshwari, Achyut Panchal, Pranav Raheja, Raj Patel, Mitanshu Sharma, and Nishant Khanduja, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Flying Safer
Alaa Thabet, Cairo, Egypt
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