Create the Future and win $20,000 (NASA TechBriefs Competition)
Reveal your inner genius
(I have revealed mine here - please click to help my view-count)
It's time to bring out the inventions you've been keeping to yourself. Show off your design and engineering skills in the Create The Future Design Contest.
$20,000, other great prizes, fame and glory are on the line!
It's like an Instructables contest, but with a wider range of possibilities, and you could get away without actually making anything. The contest is open now, and you have until October 17th to get your entries in.
There are six categories:
Grand Prize*
$20,000 USD
First Prize in Each Category (6)
HP xw4600 Workstations (or comparable workstation of equivalent value)
Popular Vote Winners (6)
$100 USD
All qualified entrants will receive a limited-edition Create the Future design contest t-shirt or souvenir of equivalent or greater value.
>You have to be 18 to enter (but you could get an adult to enter for you), you can enter a group's work (under your name), but for some bizarre reason, the contest is "void" in New York and Florida.
I'm going to give it some serious consideration, if only to get the tee...
Rules of Entry
Entry form
Tech Briefs Article
The best design ideas will:
(I have revealed mine here - please click to help my view-count)
It's time to bring out the inventions you've been keeping to yourself. Show off your design and engineering skills in the Create The Future Design Contest.
$20,000, other great prizes, fame and glory are on the line!
It's like an Instructables contest, but with a wider range of possibilities, and you could get away without actually making anything. The contest is open now, and you have until October 17th to get your entries in.
There are six categories:
- Consumer Products: Products that increase quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
- Machinery, Equipment and Component Technology: Products that speed and improve work, manufacturing, or scientific research processes.
- Medical Products: Products that improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
- Safety and Security: Products that enhance the security or safety of individuals, businesses, communities, or nations.
- Sustainable Technologies: Products that help reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources, as well as products designed for other purposes using environmentally friendly materials or manufacturing processes.
- Transportation: Products that enable movement of people and goods from one place to another.
- Innovation
- Manufacturability
- Marketability
- Cost-effectiveness
- Design communication (visuals and text explanation)
Grand Prize*
$20,000 USD
First Prize in Each Category (6)
HP xw4600 Workstations (or comparable workstation of equivalent value)
Popular Vote Winners (6)
$100 USD
All qualified entrants will receive a limited-edition Create the Future design contest t-shirt or souvenir of equivalent or greater value.
>You have to be 18 to enter (but you could get an adult to enter for you), you can enter a group's work (under your name), but for some bizarre reason, the contest is "void" in New York and Florida.
I'm going to give it some serious consideration, if only to get the tee...
Rules of Entry
Entry form
Tech Briefs Article
The best design ideas will:
- Improve quality of life
- Automate tedious tasks
- Prevent or reduce injuries
- Save time and money
- Offer alternative energy solutions
- Reduce the world's consumption of natural resources
- Lead to other product improvements
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Coo, somebody must be doing something right - I'm up to third!
Has anybody else entered yet?
Has anybody else entered yet?
Oh, so I am! I thought the rating listed was category, not overall.
Coo, number 1 in my category.
>smug smile<
Coo, number 1 in my category.
>smug smile<
Jul 23, 2008. 3:42 PMxACIDITYx
says:
I believe it's number 1 in the category and number 3 overall.
*grumble* Gotta be 18 or older....
Nah no matter, I must go check my pile of ideas for something good...
Nah no matter, I must go check my pile of ideas for something good...
Just get a grown-up to put their name on it - an entrant is allowed to represent a group of people working together.
Personal plea - my entry had slipped to fifth place - please help me get my page-view count up.
If you haven't looked already, or you're at a different computer since last time you looked, or you've flushed out your cookies since last you looked, then, please, click here.
If you haven't looked already, or you're at a different computer since last time you looked, or you've flushed out your cookies since last you looked, then, please, click here.
Jul 22, 2008. 11:56 AMKeith-Kid
says:
OOOh, didn't see that YOU posted it, but I made another one, one that's more attention grabbing. People see this as just info for the contest.
Mine will help you more!
Jul 22, 2008. 11:44 AMKeith-Kid
says:
Make a thread about it kiteman! Iblers will surely give you a boost!!!
I'm confused. I thought it was only what the judges thought that mattered-why do page views matter?
There's a popularity vote as well - even if the judges don't like your project, there's a chance of $100 cash.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that! (Must remember to enter mine...)
Jul 22, 2008. 9:44 AMn8man
says:
Someone came out of no where and took first ( look at the heirarchy)
Goodness me! They must have a more popular blog or something.
Jul 22, 2008. 10:03 AMn8man
says:
if you are under 18, can you still put your own name for the entry?
The rules state that the entrant has to be 18. However, the entrant can also represent a group or team of co-workers. So, get a trusted over-18 to enter for you (even better if it is a family member, since they send prizes to the address you put into the entry form).
I have an idea.
I've even written it up and prepared diagrams.
I'm just waiting for a reply regarding intellectual property rights.
(What the heck - I figure that even the entry prize (a t-shirt) is worth the few minutes it took to knock the thing together from one of my Instructables. Anything more is a bonus.)
I've even written it up and prepared diagrams.
I'm just waiting for a reply regarding intellectual property rights.
(What the heck - I figure that even the entry prize (a t-shirt) is worth the few minutes it took to knock the thing together from one of my Instructables. Anything more is a bonus.)
With a few tweaks, and re-named the Cuttlefish Drive (adding the explanation of the name took it over the 500-word limit), but yes. It's not up yet, I'm waiting for it to be "approved" - apparently takes about four days. Even if I don't win, I'll be looking to my fellow iblers to get my page-view count up.
Jul 13, 2008. 12:47 PMxACIDITYx
says:
I know I'll be checking it out. You'll just have to give me the link when it's ready.
I'm sure anything that you come up with is a win in my book!
I'm sure anything that you come up with is a win in my book!
Jul 13, 2008. 2:39 PMSharku
says:
ahh spam!!! >reads KM's mind<
anyone gonna do a entry for transportation? ill give you a hint its flies...... <easy need to know what im gonna go against :P
als ong no ones post there version of anti gravity then im kinda confident though not with writing
anyone gonna do a entry for transportation? ill give you a hint its flies...... <easy need to know what im gonna go against :P
als ong no ones post there version of anti gravity then im kinda confident though not with writing
Jul 15, 2008. 10:24 AMn8man
says:
Here's some help ( spam ) Kiteman:
It's spam,
it's spam,
It's spam that makes the world go round.
It's spam spam spam spam spam that makes the world go round.
Oh, roaming over the ocean,
roaming over the sea,
roaming over the ocean and the Deep blue sea.
Thank you, thank you. I dedicate this spam to kiteman.
It's spam,
it's spam,
It's spam that makes the world go round.
It's spam spam spam spam spam that makes the world go round.
It's spam,
It's spam,
It's spam that makes the world go round.
Oh, roaming over the ocean,
roaming over the sea,
roaming over the ocean and the Deep blue sea.
Thank you, thank you. I dedicate this spam to kiteman.
Jul 15, 2008. 10:32 AMn8man
says:
replace spam with cheese, you will get the first stanza of a song I learned in boy scouts.
There was cheese, cheese With great big hairy knees In the stores, in the stores, There was cheese, cheese With great big hairy knees In the quartermaster's stores. My eyes are dim, I cannot see I have not brought my specs with me I ha-ave no-ot bro-ught my-y specs with me.
Jul 14, 2008. 11:13 AMSharku
says:
Ahh very nice ingenious design , not sure if i can compete with that >.>
Thank you! If you don't want to compete with me, I don't mind (more chance of me winning!), but you could always try one of the other five categories.
My idea relates to "How to kill other people more safely". I kind of have a moral dilemma with displaying it!
Yes and no. It really does have military applications, but it's just an additional safety feature to existing weapons.
Ah, so it's "How to kill people so it's safer for the people pointing the WMD"
Especially when you think how many politicians have saved / progressed their careers on the fear of them. Are you going to elucidate on your idea?
:-)
(But there are months to go - please don't tell any competent engineers about this contest!)
(But there are months to go - please don't tell any competent engineers about this contest!)
Jul 15, 2008. 2:31 PMn8man
says:
*Stops time, goes to thousands of peoples houses, goes to your page then shuts off computers*
I've entered the contest now, and they've accepted the entry.
If you fancy helping me get my page-view count beyond it's current 11, please click here.
If you fancy helping me get my page-view count beyond it's current 11, please click here.
Anybody willing to give a look? I'm only on 25 page-views, and the top article is currently 217 views.
I know there's a long time until the deadline, but an early lead is an advantage, because later entries will look at it to see what other people have done, simultaneously upping the leaders' pageviews.
I know there's a long time until the deadline, but an early lead is an advantage, because later entries will look at it to see what other people have done, simultaneously upping the leaders' pageviews.
Jul 14, 2008. 12:15 PMn8man
says:
So, your name is Mark Langford? Good luck in the competition.
I've known it for ages! :D
*Steps up to claim useless non-existent prize*
*Steps up to claim useless non-existent prize*
That's me - I had to use my real name (for the first time on the web) to make sure they got the right name on the cheque...
Jul 14, 2008. 2:05 PMn8man
says:
Here is your instructable Check (or as you say cheque): Pay to the order order of: Kiteman Twenty thousand dollars $20,000.00
> hurriedly searches for suitable loophole in financial legislation <
In the UK, cheques are legal on any portable medium.
> Ambles towards bank with laptop. <
In the UK, cheques are legal on any portable medium.
> Ambles towards bank with laptop. <
Jul 15, 2008. 10:05 AMn8man
says:
You may know who you are (obviosly) but you do not know who I am.
Do I want to?
Anyway, I bet the bank could extract your contact details from the Admins...
Anyway, I bet the bank could extract your contact details from the Admins...
We all figured that out ages ago, along with a picture of you :-)
I'm not sure n8man was in on that revelation, though.
Some of my pupils just found my YouTube account and sent me a drama they made. They've promised instalments...
Some of my pupils just found my YouTube account and sent me a drama they made. They've promised instalments...
Nah, 20,000 USD is NOT enough for my invention... I think I will keep my invention for my self until I get my self a business going...
Wait, all you have to do is write <500 words? No (CAD?) mockups/sketches?
Scratch that, they also want you to submit graphics. Although, whats annoying is that the only 3D formats they accept are proprietary...
You do a pencil sketch and scan it - that is allowed in the rules.
Hmmm...I suppose I'll sketch my idea...it dosen't really lend itself to sketching.
When an image is an entry requirement, a sketch is better than nothing.
"All right then-I'm off to sketch glycoproteins!"
It made me giggle.
It made me giggle.
Oh my goodness! I have an awesome idea!
Thanks for posting this, Kiteman!
Hee hee...tech briefs...
Thanks for posting this, Kiteman!
Hee hee...tech briefs...
Just getting the obligatory briefs joke out of the way...somebody had to do it...:D
When I first read Tech Briefs NASA, I honestly thought it was for designing astronaut-underwear. I kinda pictured Batman and Robin (underwear on the outside?) and all their "high tech" gadgets. Come to think of it, Gravity Simulating Boxers might be handy on the space station!
What? I was also just thinking, I have always worn Tech Briefs ;-)
Jul 14, 2008. 6:42 PMdontno
says:
I once knew a girl who wore "Space Panties." She thought her butt was out of this world. (he-he)
" LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY. By entering the contest, the entrant agrees that (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the contest, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action; (2) any claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the contest, but in no event attorney's fees; and (3) under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses. " excuse my pessimism, but doesn't this bit say, in effect, "if we steal your idea, produce it, and give you no compensation, you can only sue for the value of the physical items you submitted"? couple that with the "give your info to solidworks for marketing purposes" and this seems a bit fishy.
There is usually a paragraph like that in the 'ibles contest rules as well. But, if you don't want to enter, you don't have to.
the difference I see with instructables, is that Instructables is about sharing ideas and directions freely for the pupose of furthering DIY, whereas this contest stresses ownership, privacy, and marketability... Instructables is designed to share projects, this contest seems to be designed to create a marketable product or two, with no stress on sharing the designs.
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