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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Nowadays, developing safety systems of the vehicles is important due to the increasing rate of accidents. As a solution, the trend of biometric sensor based vehicle safety systems has developed. In the case of physical incapability of the driver,
The Kiasu TAG is a smart label attachable to clothes that helps parents to prevent their children from getting lost (www.kiasu.com).
This device when integrated into the clothes is totally unnoticeable to the child and it uses a Bluetooth connection with the parent’
This portable all in one drip system allows the user to brew Coffee, Tea, and Hot chocolate. Just add hot water!
Features:
1- Compartment to hold coffee, tea, and cocoa bags
2- Compartment to hold sweeteners.
The foldable kids’ furniture one encounters in playschools are typically miniatures of the adult versions. Their hard surfaces, complex assembly and awkward bulk render them inappropriate, if not dangerous for children. A colourful range of ?at-pack EVA foam seating, called ‘ZIPP’, addresses this with remarkable ?air.
This innovative compressor is a hybrid design based on rotary vane compressors and compressors of other conventional types. It consists of an inlet guide plate, a stator, a rotor, an outlet plate and a vane.
System to obtain green energy using closed galleries of coal mines.
HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
Using microwave/ultrasound in galleries of coal mines closed, which include water and carbon dry ice trough cavitation phenomenon to obtain methane gas &
Railway is one of the best modes of public transportation in the world. It offers more comfortable and fastest journey to the people. Rail is used to reduce the frictional force between the load and track.
My idea would be to use helium cooling to cool intake air for an automotive engine to cool intake air for turbo, supercharger, or standard induction.
Introduction :
We can use the ‘automatic acceleration’ instead of manual acceleration in cars. The same way we use the automatic gear system in cars, this way we can use auto acceleration. Due to this we can make driving more comfortable and easy.
In racing,
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