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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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”
— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
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2014
The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
270 kts. High Speed Helicopter
3000 Mile Capacitor Powered Electrical Vehicle
A Fully Variable Valve in an Optimized 2-Stroke Diesel Engine
A Novel Process for Extracting Magnesium: Membrane Electrodialysis at Room Temperature
A Unique Adapter for Mounting Ball Bearings
Actuator System for Hydraulic Powered Exoskeleton
Advanced Wound Monitoring and Feedback Device
An Intelligent Pressurized Metered Dose Inhaler
Applying Excess Heat
Automatic Eye Finder & Tracking System
Blumove Bluetooth Security Assistant with AES Encryption
CarKnow - "Avacar" Virtual Vehicles
Continuously Variable Displacement Engine
Deep Water Tidal Current Electric Generator
D.R.I.A - Recognition Drone for Inaccessible Areas
ecovent Systems - Make Every Room the Right Temperature
Electro-Mechanical Split Pad Disc Brakes Using Solenoid Valves
Emulsified Heavy Fuel Oil Reduces Consumption, Emission, and Maintenance Costs
Extreme Power Free-Piston Engine
Freeform Additive Construction System (FACS)
GateKeeper: A Bluetooth Low Energy Proximity Lock for Your Computer
GPX2 Time to Digital Converter
Graphene Electromagnetic Emitter: A Terahertz Frequency Source
HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Hybrid-Nuclear Sustainable Energy
Hybrid Photovoltaic/Solar Thermal Heating & Cooling System
Hydroponics Refashioned For the Home
Inductionless Technology for Huge Energy & Environmental Savings
Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS)
Large Hydrostatic Wind Turbine
Liquid Flow Sensor with Reverse Flow Detection Capability
Long Range Wireless Power Transmission
Mobile Phone Based Blood Image Analysis and Malaria Diagnosis
Naturally Supercavitated Platforms for Naval Applications
New Class of High L/D Multi-Rotor VTOL Aircraft
New Method of Si Photovoltaic Manufacture
NOVAlert Watch Strap Driver Alertness Sustainer
OFact – a Compliant Linear Electromagnetic Actuator
Optical Sensors for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy
Optics for Solar Panels at 1/3rd Cost, Higher Efficiency and High Scale
Power Grid Transformer Protection from Solar Mass Ejections
Programmable Ultra Lightweight System Adaptable Radio
QuAD Smartphone-Based Medical Diagnostics
Quikiks -The First Totally Hands-Free Supportive Footwear
QVLA Light-Based Position Sensing
Radar Sensor for Obstacle Detection
Robotic Building Construction by Contour Crafting
SHELA: A New Compact 10 MV S-Band Linear Accelerator
Simple Design for Efficient and Expanded Preventive Dental Sealant Delivery
SP-ADAS: High-Speed Single-Photon Camera for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Sterilizable Dual Syringe LSR Delivery System
“Syphone” Water Distillation Process and Apparatus
The Future of Power Electronics Control Mechanisms
The Polariton Interferometer - a Novel Inertial Navigation System
The Simplest, Most Efficient, Low Cost Engine
Touch Robot Force-Compliant Manipulator
Transmission Lestran Orbital IVT™
Tri-Comb High Strength Low Density Panels
UroCycler Automatic Bladder Management System
Venturi Induction for Internal Combustion Engines
VibeTech One: Rehabilitation Machine for Exercising the Immobile
For Information Contact:
Debbie Rothwell
Director of Marketing
Tech Briefs Media Group
212-490-3999, ext.5520
www.createthefuturecontest.com
October 1, 2014
3D Printer That Could Build a Home in 24 Hours
Wins Global Design Competition
Contest Draws over 1,000 Innovative Product Ideas from Engineers and Students in 61 Countries
New York, NY – Contour Crafting, a computerized construction method that rapidly 3D prints large-scale structures directly from architectural CAD models, has been awarded the grand prize of $20,000 in the 2014 "Create the Future" Design Contest.
Contour Crafting automates the construction of whole structures and radically reduces the time and cost of construction. The large-scale 3D printing technology is revolutionary to the construction industry and could lead to affordable building of high quality, low-income housing; the rapid construction of emergency shelters; and on-demand housing in response to disasters. NASA is looking at the technology for building moon and Mars bases.
Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at University of Southern California, who invented Contour Crafting, views this invention as a proven concept. “Bringing 3D printing to construction is bringing a concept to a proven application. For many years, building has been done in layers – concrete foundation blocks, brick laying, structural framing, etc.”
“I am very happy to receive this award and find it to be very timely as I am in the process of fund raising and I think this recognition will help me greatly in furthering the project,” said Khoshnevis.
Contour Crafting was among the 1,074 new product ideas submitted in the 12th annual design contest, which was established in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovations that benefit humanity, the environment, and the economy. This year’s design contest was co-sponsored by COMSOL (www.comsol.com)and Mouser Electronics (www.mouser.com). Analog Devices and Intel were supporting sponsors.
"This year's contest really knocked it out of the park with a record number of entries and tons of truly forward- thinking product ideas,” said Bernt Nilsson, Senior VP of Marketing at COMSOL. “All these creative designs are a testament to the power of engineering innovation for building a better tomorrow. COMSOL is grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest that does such a phenomenal job in promoting and recognizing simulation-driven product design. Kudos to all the entrants for sharing their amazing ideas and congratulations to this year's winners.”
Kevin Hess, Vice President of Technical Marketing at Mouser Electronics added, "We'd like to congratulate this year's winners for their ingenuity, and commend all of the entrants for taking part in this exciting program that fosters technological innovation. As a distributor of leading technologies, ‘Creating the Future’ is very much at the heart of what we support here at Mouser, and we are excited to help design engineers and want to thank them for their important contributions. Engineers really deserve the credit for the amazing ingenuity we are seeing today in electronic design."
In addition to the grand prize of $20,000, first-place winners (of Hewlett-Packard workstations) were named in seven categories:
Aerospace & Defense
The Polariton Interferometer - a Novel Inertial Navigation System
Frederick Moxley
A stealth navigation system that provides precise course-plotting while operating independently from GPS.
Automotive/Transportation
Continuously Variable Displacement Enginem
Steve Arnold
A continuously variable stroke engine that operates at 30% better fuel efficiency than conventional thick stroke engine designs.
Consumer Products
NanoFab Lab...in a Box!
Jonathan Moritz (Team Leader)
An educational kit that brings nanomanufacturing out of the cleanroom and into the classroom.
Electronics
A Paradigm Shift for SMT Electronics
Jim Hester (Team Leader)
Micro-coil springs that provide flexible electrical interconnections for integrated circuit packages, preventing connection breaks due to heat and vibration.
Machinery/Automation/Robotics – sponsored by Maplesoft
Automatic Eye Finder & Tracking System
Rikki Razdan (Team Leader)
Real-time point-of-gaze eye tracking system that allows users to control computer input through "Look and Click" applications.
Medical
HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Yunus Alapan (Team Leader)
A biochip that can rapidly, easily, and conclusively identify the hemoglobin type in blood to diagnose Sickle Cell Disease in newborns.
Sustainable Technologies
Ecovent Systems - Making Every Room the Right Temperature
Dipul Patel (Team Leader)
A system of wireless vents and sensors that makes any forced air heating and cooling system smarter by directing conditioned air where it’s needed most.
Finalists were selected by senior editors at Tech Briefs Media Group and judged by an independent panel of design engineers. Visitors to the contest Web site could vote on entries, with the 10 most popular designs awarded a Sphero mobile game system by Orbotix. For more information, visit
www.createthefuturecontest.com.
About COMSOL
COMSOL provides simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities through 21 offices and a distributor network throughout the world. Its flagship product, COMSOL Multiphysics®, is a software environment for modeling and simulating any physics-based system and building specialized applications. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulation with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market.
www.comsol.com
About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 4 million products online from more than 500 manufacturers. Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 400,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas.
www.mouser.com
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IF SLEEPING HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE ACHE IN YOUR ARMS WHILE HOLDING THE BOOK ?
Linac-MR systems are poised to revolutionize radiation cancer therapy in the very near future. These systems will allow real-time 3D tracking during radiation therapy in order to optimize the radiation delivery to the cancer tumor, while the patient moves and breathes (something not possible with current technologies).
WHEELED WALKER
• What problem does your design idea solve?
I'm a seventy four year old veteran. I use a walking cane. I see a lot of vets that use a walking device and I ask them why they need it. Most, myself included, complain about joint pain,
Our defacto hardware tool to interact with computers is the mouse. Be it a mousepad or a handheld mouse, it is the one and only tool – along with the keyboard - we all use to make our daily work in computers.
DrRho is a medical tele-presence robot under development at Vyas Labs. It provides a robotic base with human environment maneuverability and a set of robotic manipulators, together with telemedicine modalities of electronic stethoscope, blood pressure, temperature, ECG and pulse-oximetry. It also provides the doctors’
PERSONAL*IZ EDITION (pronounced Personal-Eyes)
CONTEST CATEGORY: CONSUMER PRODUCTS
CONTEST ENTRY: Augmented Reality for Consumers - The BROWZ*A/R (Personal*IZ Edition)
ENTRY SLOGAN: “The KEY to What You SEE”
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APP FEATURES
Augmented-Reality to display consumer PRODUCT archives;
This is a conceptual design for a nanomotor driven attachment used in low flow shunts. The motor itself is driven from natural proteins found in the body,
CONTEST ENTRY: Augmented Reality Helmet Controls - The BROWZ*A/R (Rugged*IZ Edition)
ENTRY SLOGAN: “The KEY to What You SEE”
APP FEATURES
Augmented-Reality Display and Control in Hands-Free Environments;
Augmented-Reality for WorkZone SAFETY Standards (OSHA, UN);
[Suit Environments: sterile, hostile, extreme,
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