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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More than 80,000 aircraft take off and land daily in the world: more than one every second. Airlines are thus losing a daily average of $6.5 million due to the wear and tear of tires during landing.
My name is Ionel Mihailescu. I am Canadian, mechanical engineer, designer, P. Eng. I am located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.I invented a new and much more efficient, internal combustion engine. I call it, High Performance Continuous Internal Combustion Engine. I got the Patent Grant in USA,
The project focuses on providing an alert system for any disaster or calamity approaching a particular area. The method used here is data scraping and data collection from reliable sources which provides the accurate condition of the weather/disaster.
Finally, here is the solution to the world's requirement for power, with no carbon footprint, and no more need of fossil fuels! This new-technology electricity generator functions uniquely according to known principles of electromagnetic induction, and requires no external power or fuel, and is patented (US 8,847,720).
Internet of Things (IOT) is an evolving technology in Mobile Computing, resembling the Distributed Network Environment, where physical objects are embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity to stay connected over the Internet and communicate with each other.
TOPIC: Improvements in On-Road-Vehicles takes inspiration from Aerofoil Sections and Ekranoplans.
As per Illustration 1- principles of Ekranoplan can be used to reduce fuel consumption of vehicles- like trucks- by reducing their effective weight, which would lead to reduction in friction, which in turn,
This project based on agriculture is intended to create an automated irrigation mechanism which turns the pumping motor ON and OFF on detecting the moisture content of the soil. In the domain of farming, utilization of appropriate means of irrigation is significant.
At present, the mileage (distance coverage) for two wheeler claimed by the manufacturer is based on the fixed laboratory testing conditions. Many factors such as individual driving pattern, traffic condition, road condition, load, speed condition, petrol level,
The conventional fuel tank has a single chamber and the drying up of fuel is a common issue encountered by the commuter class. In such a case, one has to either push the vehicle to the fuel refilling station or else buy the fuel in a plastic bottle.
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