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2015
The Beacon Safety Light ( BSL) is being developed to aid in the evacuation of a structure fire. The statistics are staggering. Every year over 3000 people are killed in fires, many as a result of smoke inhalation, Another 17.000 are injured.
Competition Brief:
The standard computer mouse is outdated, boring, and has very limited functionality. Most mice don't feel comfortable to hold and feel cheap as well. When a mouse has buttons - there is a limit to the speed with which you can click, based on the mechanics of the buttons themselves.
Abstract :-
As far as my project is concerned , it is a wireless controlling droid which can be used to give the virtual presence of any human being at any place across the world. Let us take an example to give a better view of my project,
A caster where the swiveling portion is internal. There are two vertically disposed, horizontally spaced-apart rollers located on a horizontal roller axle mounted in a yoke attached to the bottom of a central shaft. The central shaft has two bearings supporting it with two central core spacers.
Walker for Paraplegics
What is proposed is a walking device for paraplegics wherein the person is supported on the chair portion and stabilized with waist straps. Two of the legs are hinged at the knee. As the person shifts their upper body weight backward, the legs swing forward and backward.
Inductor Jet Engine
A jet engine with no moving parts. Compression is achieved by extracting 60% or more of the exhaust energy and injecting it directly into the incoming air stream to induce and compress the intake air. The intake air's kinetic energy is converted to pressure in a divergent zone.
Top Ten Leaders
#1 with 182 votes!
Puncture Proof Burst Proof Tire#2 with 173 votes!
CAP Exoskeleton#3 with 150 votes!
CoAxial Engine#4 with 139 votes!
Sensorless Angle Of Attack Indicator#5 with 132 votes!
Cybernated Farm Systems (CFS)#6 with 130 votes!
Self Chargeable Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV)#7 with 120 votes!
Development of a Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure#8 with 110 votes!
Piezoelectric Generator#9 with 96 votes!
Anti-Collision Technology For Automobiles#10 with 88 votes!
Future Solar TrainThe Runners Up
#11 with 82 votes
High Voltage Piezoelectric Power Plant
#12 with 78 votes
nCbC ( no Cash but Communication )
#13 with 65 votes
ProjectMQ
#14 with 62 votes
Kerrison Rongeur Rescue
#14 with 62 votes
Design & Development Of A Novel Flapping Wing Mechanism For An Ornithopter (tie)
#16 with 57 votes
Guide to Insulin Administration
#17 with 56 votes
Active Baggage Handling System
#18 with 51 votes
Vortex Energy Recovery To Power Aircraft Inflight System
#19 with 50 votes
Tele Semi Humaniod Robot
#20 with 49 votes
The Intelligent Cradle (I-Cradle)
#21 with 46 votes
Tongue Controlled Mouse Pointer: An Asssistive Technology For The Disabled
#21 with 46 votes
Nanoelectrofuel: An Advanced Battery Concept For Electric Vehicles (tie)
#23 with 45 votes
Portable Sugarcane Harvester
#24 with 44 votes
Automation In Coconut Powder Making: A Concept
#24 with 44 votes
Self Charging Battery (tie)
#24 with 44 votes
Stackable Tumbler (tie)
#27 with 42 votes
Universal Reader for the Blind
#28 with 39 votes
DAVID: Digital Anatomic Visual Informatics Device
#28 with 39 votes
Automatic Paddy Transplanter (tie)
#30 with 37 votes
ECHY: Solar Lighting With Fiber Optics
#31 with 36 votes
Design And Development Of A RC VTOL Unmanned Aircraft
#32 with 35 votes
Train Aerodynamic Brake System
#32 with 35 votes
Application of the Biefeld Brown Effect (tie)
#34 with 33 votes
SPoSER
#34 with 33 votes
Digital Air Brake Stroke Measuring Gauge (tie)
#34 with 33 votes
Smart Relief Valve (tie)
#37 with 31 votes
3D Printer to Aid Visually Impaired Consumers in Their Daily Life
#38 with 30 votes
Fueled Power Generation For An Electric 2 Wheeler
#38 with 30 votes
Universal Alert Assistive Device for Hearing Impaired (tie)
#38 with 30 votes
Radially Asymmetric Dual Arc (RADA) Profile (tie)
#41 with 29 votes
TOTALLY Solar Electric Powered Hospital Boat
#42 with 28 votes
Low Orbit Satellite
#43 with 27 votes
Commercial Aircraft Emergency System Deployed to Save Lives
#44 with 26 votes
L- GEN
#44 with 26 votes
Flowing Last-Mile Logistics (tie)
#44 with 26 votes
the SARM Project nbsp; (tie)
#47 with 25 votes
Eros Outer Atmosphere Settlement
#47 with 25 votes
Mype - Expand Urban Space Through An Interface Design (tie)
#49 with 24 votes
Hurricane Control Using Space Solar Power Satellites (SPS)
#50 with 23 votes
APS - Automatic Protection System
#50 with 23 votes
Free Standing Flexible Capillary Made From Silicone Elastomer For Medical And Soft Robotic Applications (tie)
#50 with 23 votes
UAV-UGV Collaboration For Disaster Relief And Rescue Missions (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Double Layer Chamber
#53 with 22 votes
NIRVAPANA (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Liquid Propane to replace 100LL for piston engine aircrafts (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Enhanced Meal Experience with Airborne Lightweight Systems (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
In-Door Positioning and Guidance System for Visually Impaired Using RFID Tactile Paving (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Real-Time Interactive Sonic Boom Display (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Portable And Automated Sickle Cell Disease Diagnosis And Patient Monitoring Using Magnetic Levitation (tie)
#60 with 21 votes
Nanolaser Cancer Therapy
#61 with 20 votes
Fingerprint Based Smart Pay And Accident Alert System
#61 with 20 votes
Automatic Water Flow Control Shut Off System (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Gyroscopic Multi-movement Ducted Propellers For Aircraft
#63 with 18 votes
Reduction of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in Power Inverters (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Multi Stage Aerospace Enterprise (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Gearless Bi-freewheel Differential (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Wideband Metamaterial RF Absorber (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
The prevention of theft of car components and bicycles (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Basketball Pick-Up (BP) Machine
#69 with 17 votes
International Flag of Freedom, Free-country, Love and Peace (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Real-Time Fiber Optic Sensing System (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Advanced Side Impact protection system for passenger car (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Volare Dominus (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Riscram™ Rocked Ignited Supersonic Combustor Ramjet. Propulsion system for hypersonic aircraft with supersonic combustor. Mach 0 to 30 - Earth Sea Level to Space Exosphere (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Flexolar: Ecological Flashlight (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Use of Aerodynamic lift to reduce fuel consumption of heavy vehicles
#76 with 16 votes
Autonomous Highway Lighting System (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Ejectable Crew/Passenger Compartment For Aircrafts/Helicopters/Aerospace Vehicles (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Mobile robot leak detector in a metal pipe (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Green Roof with Collection and Purification Capabilities of Rainwater (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Integrated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (iTMS) (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
A Photosynthetic Bio-reactor That Produces Bio-fuel From Carbon Dioxide (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Replace That Plastic And Gasoline With Paper!
#83 with 15 votes
Simultaneous Production of Potable Water and Hot Water (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Impulse Type Dynamic Wing Turbine (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
World's First Green Human Robot (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
A Novel Method For Self Regulated Coil Winding Machine (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Tire's Coefficient of Friction measuring Device (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Conquer Cancer and Hard To Treat Diseases
#89 with 14 votes
VARTAK (Variably Applicable, Reliable Transporter & A Knight) - Intelligence Aimed at Better World (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Doubling Output From Solar PV Panels (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
A New Technology To Amplify The Power Of A Solar Panel By 200 Times While Simultaneously Storing The Energy In The Form Of Hydrogen (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Solution To Overloading Vehicle (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Continuously Variable Transmission with Hydraulic Energy Recovery
#94 with 13 votes
Econect: An Improved Green Taxiing System Focused Around The Landing Gear (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Progressive Flow Turbo Compressor Recirculation Valve (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Planot: Boxless, Full Range, Omnidirectional Speaker (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Tube Squeezer (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
A New Way To Learn Electronics Technology (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Firefly Rural Electrification System (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
CertAlert Medication Pendant (tie)
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2015 Entries
>> All
>> Aerospace & Defense
>> Automotive/Transportation
>> Consumer Products
>> Electronics
>> Machinery/Automation/Robotics
>> Medical
>> Sustainable Technologies
2015 Participants
2015 Results
>> Top Votes
>> Winners
>> Top 100
>> Press Release
The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
3D Precision Positioning for UAV Autonomous Landing on Moving Platforms
3D Printer to Aid Visually Impaired Consumers in Their Daily Life
A New Paradigm of Thin-Film Solar Electricity
A Novel Energy Regenerative Shock Absorber
A Novel Processor Architecture for the Internet of Things
A Novel Wireless Tracking System for Medical Equipment
A Proven System for Preventing Ground Collisions of Aircraft
A Truly Wearable Healthcare and Fitness Device Aimed at Making a Better Life
Active Pixel Sensor Design and Operations
Active Sound Insulation Window
An Automated Method For Fibrin Clot Permeability Assessment
Application of Battlefield Point of Injury & Trauma Medical Device System
Baxter(TM) Wagon Steering System
CEREBROS™ -- A Paradigm Shifting, Scalable Solution For Point-of-Care Brain Injury Monitoring
CHP System with Internal Waste Heat Recovery
Compact Long-Reach Robotic Arm
Creating Sensations Of Touch, Over-the-air, For True Immersion In Virtual Or Augmented Reality
CryoFOSS: Using Fiber Optic Technology for Liquid Level Sensing
Cyclic Pitch Vertical Axis Turbine Inspired By Birds
DAVID: Digital Anatomic Visual Informatics Device
Development of a Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
Direct Methanol Feed Fuel Cell and System
ECHY: Solar Lighting With Fibre Optics
Explosive Material Identification from a Distance
Fabrication of Fiber-Metal Laminates with Non-Autoclave Processes
Fetal Welfare Monitoring Using Light And Sound
Firefly Rural Electrification System
Flexolar: Ecological Flashlight
Floating Piston, Isolation Valve
Game Changing Optics for the Future
Gemini Electric Motor & Generator
High Performance Shutter Valve
Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of High Throughput Microfluidic Devices for Cellular Processing
Integrated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (iTMS)
Intelligent Hitch for Measuring Both Trailer Weight and Tongue Weight
Low Cost 3D Printed Linear Motion System
Low Cost, Ergonomic and Efficient Side-Fire Fiber
Low Frequency Portable Acoustic Measurement System
Magnetic Field Response Measurement Acquisition System
Method For Treating Cartilage Defects
MICHELIN X TWEEL TURF Airless Radial Tire
Micro interface to control robotic prosthesis, using the axons of motor nerves
Micro Turbine Personal Flight System for First Responders
Mobile Oximeter for Rural Child Pneumonia Diagnosis
Modular Jet Ski; No Trailer; Affordable; High Performance
Next Generation Armour “Plymetal” Manufactured by Metallic 3D Printing
Novel Chest Tube Design To Alleviate Clogging And Facilitate Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Planot: Boxless, Full Range, Omnidirectional Speaker
Progressive Flow Turbo Compressor Recirculation Valve
Project Pyra: World's First 3D-Printed Oven
Real-Time Fiber Optic Sensing System
Real-Time Interactive Sonic Boom Display
Self Sustained Magnetic Refrigeration
Sensorless Angle of Attack Indicator
SFAAS - Smart Fetal ECG Acquisition and Analysis System
Simple Low Cost Design For Expanding Preventive Dental Sealant Delivery
Smart Coating for Corrosion Detection and Protection
SolePower Power-Generating Insoles
Solid State Regulated AC Transformer
Sorbent Polymer Extraction and Remediation System (SPEARS)
SPIN Remote -- The Simplest, Most Stylish Remote Ever
Super-Resolution X-ray Imaging System
Synthetic Vision System for Aeronautical Applications
Tailored Dielectric Materials With Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Telecom Tower Structural & Radiation Inspection Using MUAV System
Total Actuation and Force Feedback on Robot Assisted Microsurgery
Water Conserving, Agriculture Pollutant Scavenging HydraMat™ by EcosPure
Wideband Metamaterial RF Absorber
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