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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General Description: This design is an aftermarket adapter for standard roof- or porro-prism binoculars. The adapter includes a configuration of tubes, cameras, pico-projectors, a tiny computer with FPGA, secure-WiFi, GPS, compass, and software...plus batteries and an optional motion-controlled mount. The result is a 3-pound,
Introduction
The vibratory cavitation piston pumps (VCPP) are intended for moving and spraying solutions and aggressive liquids.
It is remarkably that the VCPP technology was opened,
This invention is a lane guiding addition to a modern GPS, directing the driver into the correct lane for navigation, without having to remove their eyes from the road.
Complex three, four and five lane highways (California, Texas, New York, DC come to mind),
Many locations with poorly developed infrastructure do not have the capacity to receive airplanes and rely on ground transport from better equipped ports. Conventional airships could theoretically put down at any location, but due to expense of helium lifting gas are rarely used.
The Mini Electric Timer if manufactured would allow consumers to set a different charging time for each of their personal electronic devices.
What problem does your design idea solve?
The Mini Electric Timer can prevent (1) overcharging of your electronic devices.
The E-Witness Camera is a simple solid state camera that constantly records images until a programmable event. It records to SSD memory until it's filled, then begins to write over the oldest captured images.
This is a device to aid those who wear prosthetic limbs. The current state of the art is a multilayer system that consists of a cotton sock and a silicone rubber sock that fits over the limb.
Aquaback is developing a highly efficient, low cost, low maintenance, compact, modular vapor compression distiller to be the water processing module in a wide variety of water processing systems to clean incoming water or reclaim waste water.
Think of how many times we climb or descent stairs in a typical day at work or at school or at the stadium or in the mall. Think of how many other people have used the handrail in the last hour.
How would you like to walk on AIR literally? With magnets, you CAN! This shoe will be the best shoe ever made! Positioning magnets on the bottom of a shoe facing opposite each other will create,of course, AIR in the middle, which is what you will be WALKING on.
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