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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The present invention aims to achieve integration between four different devices for transformation of different types of wastes into different types of energy sources. Such integration is defined as the use of the exhaust and/or outputs of any device as an input of one or more device. But also,
There are more than 20.1 million intermodal containers of different types mostly used as common package for about 60% of world sea trade.
The Photovoltaic Wind Turbine for Geothermal Heat Pump would lend to the enhancement of the sustainable energy that is available for production by utilizing photovoltaic solar panels mounted on a wind turbine. The wind turbine generator powers a geothermal heat pump.
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The ideal Automotive Waste Heat Recovery (AWHR) system needs to be compact, cheap to mass produce and ultimately provide an efficiency improvement that significantly outweighs its cost.
The aim of this project is to develop a wireless power transmission method utilizing ultrasonic waves travelling along plates. The primary application for this method is the supply of power to wireless sensor nodes located in remote areas of a building.
In usage emission free hybrid motorcycle where the vehicle is moved with hydraulic pressure, which again is produced by electric-motor-driven hydraulic pump. After first simulations this system would achieve >8h autonom net driving time withot need to fill either electric accu or hydraulic accu.
This study aimed to design and develop a multi-purpose controller to measure and control moisture, temperature, and time. Specifically, it aimed to design and develop microcontroller circuit for the controller; make assembly language program for the microcontroller;
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