The winners of the Create the Future Design Competition were announced this week. The Medical Category winner was the HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease, designed by a team from Case Western Reserve University, who have created a biochip that can rapidly, easily, and conclusively identify the hemoglobin type in blood to diagnose Sickle Cell Disease in newborns.
The Grand Prize winner was Contour Crafting, a computerized construction method that rapidly 3d prints large-scale structures directly from architectural cad models, which has been awarded $20,000. Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at University of Southern California, invented Contour Crafting, which was entered in the Machinery/Automation/Robotics Category. This year, a record 1,074 new product ideas were entered in the 12th annual design contest.
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