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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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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Passenger vehicles and different types of administering material companies produce pollution and contribute significant amounts of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other harmful chemical pollutions. On record since 2013 to this present time has tripled the effect of an under balanced eco system,
Vaccines has long been a form of treatment for babies, children and even adults. The inconvenience of pain has formed different reasons to deny treatment and has since caused multiple forms of contagious and curable viruses.
Enviro Cooker
This is a cooking device using a solar panel, battery 12volt, 2-small swimming pool filters one fitted with pressure relief valve, a blow back arrestor and small cooker. One of the pool filter cannisters has a positive and negative electrode placed in it.
Preventing the spread of the flu or the common cold is a perennial unsolved problem for the general public. In the US alone, there are upwards of 49,000 lives lost each year (depending on type of flu that year) and untold loss of productivity from millions of sick individuals.
Conventional power-trains for aviation are expensive on initial cost, operation and maintenance.
Problem: Huge fueling costs of semi trailer trucks due to low fuel mileage.
Proposed solution:
The heavier the vehicle is, the more energy it needs to get moving. Reducing weight is a very effective way to improve a vehicle’s efficiency.
Nowadays various water-sport boards (including surfing and kiting boards) gained wide popularity.
We developed a special design (new hydrodynamic design, first of all) of advanced planing board (“Superboard”) that could quickly pop up out of water and cut hydrodynamic drag by half.
The RHINO SAFE eyeglasses frame is a non-invasive alternative for patients subject to rhinoplasty, turbinoplasty or other maxillofacial procedures, during their postoperative care stage. It was ideated as a solution for people that require wearing glasses for their daily activities,
Nature has many times given us precise answers for many problems. The flower is a natural designed solar collector which optimizes the solar rays receiving area.
For that purpose our proposed solar collector and generation system is denominated solar flower.
The principal benefit of a Scotch Yolk mechanism in an IC engine is to provide the pistons with a connecting rod attachment that eliminates ALL angular thrust between the piston and cylinder wall. Additionally, an engine design would no longer require the fabrication of a forged,
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