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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Global warming of the Earth due to greenhouse gases has reached alarming levels. Thus there is an increased demand for cleaner energy sources such as solar energy. Solar cells are inherently capable of higher efficiency due to the direct conversion of solar radiation into electricity.
Road accidents are undoubtedly the most frequent and, overall, the cause of the most vehicle damage. In most cases when an accident happens there is no person available on the spot area to take care of the causality.
The problem we're trying to solve is that currently Tractor-Trailers get 6.5 miles per gallon - and spend (on average) $48,000 per year on fuel (per tractor). The trucking industry spends $150B per year on fuel in the U.S., and 6.2% of all U.S. emissions come from trucks.
Fitness enthusiasts and people who want to carry multiple fluids with them always use multiple containers. This new concept will serve dual purpose for hot and cold, cold and cold fluids. To carry hot and cold fluids in the same container or carry two cold fluids in one container,
Currently ECU is used in cars to increase performance. This MechaSpark ECU is a LOW COST microcontroller based ignition system which increased the power output of engine and REDUCED FUEL consumption. This is can be TUNED to provide various performance modes such as MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING, HEAVY-TRAFFIC, OFF-ROADING,
Dear experts,
Today you will find out about my idea of improving treadmill monitor.
So, sometimes you can be a little bit lazy to force yourself to go to the gym and running on the running track (treadmill) could be boring.
First we made a fire-proof cabin that layer fill with air in an airplane as like swimming tube. Cabin is made from fire-proof cloth material. Inside the cabin, a belt is attached to the cabin wall like roller coaster belt.
NanoWasher - Mini Portable Dish Washer
Today with the high price of land and the growing population houses are being made smaller and more practical, but as in the bigger households, we never can rid of one of the most daily activities and probably heavier and hated, washing dishes,
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