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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In the deserts and semi-arid areas of the world the day time temperatures can be very high but they can be cold in the night. Cooking food is also a daily requirement but the source of fuel is scarce. This is seen especially in Africa and Haiti.
New propulsion type with thrust augmenter and new VTOL aircraft
The present concept aims to improve the disk loading value with around 15 - 20% and to reduce noise with around 20% over current ducted fan propulsion systems. This increases the hover efficiency and reduces the power requirement.
Every worker in every office today owns a PC on the table always on a network (LAN or internet). But every worker in an office does not have an office phone. This is because it is very expensive to setup office telephones in every office.
However, current designs have drawbacks. Shifting takes time to master, and shift speeds can never match the best automated transmissions.
This submission shows a more effective method of recovering waste heat energy in commercial vehicles than the Rankine cycle systems and TEG's as used on the DOE SuperTrucks. The reason for utilizing waste heat is to reduce the vehicles fuel usage. There are four main sources of heat rejection;
Generally bikes are built on the range of human sizes and have only the ability to adjust the distance between the saddle and the crank shaft and - limited, between saddle and handlebars. With increasing age, the human body size changes,
The most common automotive occupant protection system in use today is the three-point automatic seat belt.
Sustainable Technologies
Technical Abstract
Emergency Shoreline Breakwall
Climate change during recent years has created numerous flooding events that are short in duration, very damaging to shoreline properties, coastline erosion and create unsafe conditions for shore and coastline inhabitants.
In simple terms let's say you have a spacecraft and then you have a huge rubber band on the pinpoint of the nose. You pull back on the rubber band and point at the direction you want to go.
Bio-Grid is the modular antimicrobial ceiling developed by request of the University of Michigan hospitals to reduce HAI's (hospital acquired infections). The modular ceiling replaces non active gypsum/drywall, fibrous panels and stainless ceilings that harbor and grow bacteria and fungus and cannot be sufficiently cleaned by hand.
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