Announcing Our 2024 Finalists
Congratulations to the seven finalists who will be competing for the Grand Prize during a live presentation round in November:
AstroAnt: A Miniature Symbiotic Robotic Serving on the Outside Surfaces of Spacecraft, Rovers, and Landers for Inspection and Diagnostic Tasks
Cosmetic Silica Upcycled from Rice Husk as Natural Alternative to Microplastic Powders
Laser-Generated Anti-Icing and Anti-Fogging Transparent Materials
Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System
NETrolyze: A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
RHOBARR Barrier Dispersions Platform
Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling Device
Watch this space for more announcements, including the Top 100 entries and Top Ten most popular.
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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 VASMAG transport system uses the principle of electromagnetic repulsion, in which the rail is constructed with non-magnetic conductive materials, (aluminum or copper), so that large superconducting magnets can be used, naturally more power is required to energize them,
My patent pending KwikCoil, is a “very unique” cable management device that when attached to any “existing” cable, cord, string, rope, tubing, hose or wire instantly brings it to order by transforming it into a self organizing, retractable non-tangling version of itself.
The Closed Marine Energy Battery Technology or CMEBT is a technology which can provide the energy for humans for a period of more than a century from now. This technology produces no harmful end products.
LLNL has a long history, since 1997, in developing and testing active and passive aerodynamic concepts for heavy vehicles (add-on devices) and more recently,
Education, military, agriculture among other fields are using drones to benefit the proficiency. Drones are used in almost all the operations as well as the industries nowadays because of their reliability, cost effectiveness and multifunctionality.
Today fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. Using different conductive thin sheet materials, a material that is cheap, skin-friendly, and robust for everyday wear,
Features of design:
It requires small space.
Provide protection from animals, insects etc.
Low cooling load.
Fast and efficient response.
Other smartphone enabled features can be added.
Customized music system.
Virtual reality screen in cabin sheet.
Description of design:
Bed with cabin or closed compartment.
Design statement:
The instrument has following parts,
This innovation has been developed to make more efficient floor wiping by overcoming the problem of manual floor wiping.
The wiper is driven by electric motor instead of human effort to clean the floor more easily, fast and without uneven stops.
Water wave energy and wind energy are types of sustainable energy resources.
To use these enormous energy resources this turbine design has been developed.
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