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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Smartphones are smart because of their multitasking capabilities & even by their physical appearance. Considering physical appearance here is an interactive design in which people can feel & sense different materials for mobiles either than just metal & plastic. Choosing windows interface this mobile is been designed.
The two cycle internal combustion engines can become widely used in the automotive market, if two main goals were achieved:
- Maintain its original simplicity
- Eliminate the pollution inherent to the concept
Patent filed at the USPTO: 5,403,164 (Sep.
Egypt is experiencing one of its most serious energy crises for decades, with parts of the country facing around six power cuts a day for up to two hours at a time. The blackouts have created widespread frustration,
This technology aims at developing an unobtrusive and minimally invasive assistive technology for people with severe disabilities.Tongue controlled technology detects the user’s voluntary tongue movement and translates it into user defined commands. Since the tongue is connected to the hypoglossal cranial nerve,
Finger Print Starting (FPS) system is a revolutionary innovative starting system in two wheeler where the usage of keys can be avoided. Since the invention of the two wheeler there are lots of advancements in bikes (example: fuel injection, tubeless tyre etc,) except the keys.
Portable electricity is becoming one of the most demanded technologies since the widespread use of portable electronics over the last two decades. Devices with increasing functionability have also increasing power requirements that fall in the limit of current portable generators, ie. batteries.
1. Free energy in true sense to develop powerful laser beam.
2. It is envisioned that the laser beam generator is installed on satellite/ International space station etc in outer space.
3. No battery or conversion of suns light to electrical energy etc.
4. This is true sustainable,
Every car does bump while it runs. It is seen more with passenger bus’s back position. We can extract electrical energy from an electric bus. The amount of power that is extracted from it is more than its expenses for running.
In this world where traffic can get into your nerves and stress your life out from work to home,
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