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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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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This project is about a supplemental skin that respires. It is a garment for the modern human, who wanders during the day in the city, a “microenvironment” around the wearer that interacts with the broader changing environment and helps to maintain the condition of thermal comfort.
The present general concept relates generally to the field of air conditioning and mere specifically, to an apparatus to improve quality by, for example, removing bacteria molecules from the air.
At the present time,
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(1) To be used for last mile connection, outdoor activities, shopping or sport.
(2) Light weight (under 15 lbs. including fuel cans), easy to be carry-on bus.
(3) Fordable for easy storage.
In our work, we developed a ferrofluid core differential transformer sensor, which can be used to measure tilt. The purpose of our research was to develop and test a new type of tilt sensor, which uses ferrofluid.
The headworn drone instant launching and landing platform has a unique remotely piloted drone sitting upon a launching / landing platform mounted on top of a wearers head. And similarly, a second unique drone is mounted on an instant launch backpack. If one drone is lost there’s another.
Though we have many other biometric solutions, fingerprint identification system is widely used for many reasons. Compared to other biometric techniques, the advantages of fingerprint-based identification are as detailed below:
Uniqueness of the fingerprint - the minutiae details of individual ridges and furrows are permanent and unchanging.
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