Product

Rejuvalin™ Glucosamine Cream

Team Members

Solomon Garner,
Michael Clark

Advisor

Dr. Charles Hofer

University of New Hampshire

Product

High Performance Medical Imaging

Team Members

Anthony Jaccarino,
Sudhir Mulpuru

Advisor

Dr. Michael Moredna

The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that is used for medical imaging, in general, uses hyperpolarized noble gases, either helium-3 or xenon-129. Helium that can be easily polarized has been successfully used in lung imaging. Until recently, methods for polarizing xenon fell for short of the efficiency required to exploit as an imaging agent. Prof. Hersman at University of New Hampshire discovered a new method and demonstrated that this approach achieves a higher performance than polarizers existing elsewhere. This technology can be used to manufacture hyperpolarized xenon gas and polarizers for higher performance medical imaging.

University of Texas at Austin

Product

Peer-to-Peer Wireless Telephony Services

Team Members

Nathan Calvert,
Avi Kumar

Advisor

Scott Nettles

VoicePeer is developing a telephony system targeting the three billion people who lack access to reliable telecommunications. The system provides Telcos a rapidly deployable and low cost turnkey solution for basic voice and data services. VoicePeer’s proprietary spectrum management protocols integrated with existing chipsets create a low-latency peer-to-peer ad hoc wireless network, which replaces the need for cell towers and traditional wire line technology. In the VoicePeer system the phones are the network – an innovation that provides affordable telephony by reducing infrastructure costs.

University of New Hampshire

Details under Chair of Free Enterprise Finals above.

Texas A&M University

Product

Proactive Cardiac Strain Pattern Modulation Technology

Team Members

Saurabh Biswas

Advisor

John C. Criscione

CorInnova Incorporated, an early stage medical device company, is developing a proprietary Proactive Cardiac Strain Pattern Modulation Technology targeted for the treatment of Congestive Heart Failure, a highly debilitating and progressive disorder that affects more than five million people in the United States and 25 million people worldwide, and related cardiac conditions.

Trinity College, Dublin

Product

Risk Analyses Services

Team Members

Edel Duffy, Breda Naddy

Advisor

Eoin O’Neill, Cronan McNamara

Creme, a business which will provide web-delivered risk analyses services to the Food and other industries, is a business idea from a collaboration by the Trinity College High Performance Computing Centre and our Department of Clinical Medicine.

University of Texas at Austin

Details under Chair of Free Enterprise Finals above.

National University of Singapore

Product

Magic Cube

Team Members

Zhou Zhiying

Advisor

Dr. Nigel Goh

Magic Cube is a combination of software and hardware accessories which allows children to see and interact with 3D virtual reality fantasies appearing on the physical cubes held in their hands. By simple physical manipulations of the cube, children can unfold and read the 3D stories, learn the 3D children’s vocabulary, and play 3D board games.

University of Southern California

Product

3D Computer Interaction System

Team Members

Zahir Y. Alpaslan,
Akemi H. Kuramoto,
Oleg Pravdin

Advisor

Alexander A. Sawchuk, Kathleen R. Allen

Our product is a three-dimensional (3D) computer interaction system. It consists of a 3D display, hand tracking cameras and a computer. The 3D display shows IMAX-like 3D images without glasses. The hand tracking cameras record a user’s 3D hand motions in space. The computer interprets recorded hand motions and turns them into computer interaction commands and creates 3D images as its output.

University of Georgia

Details under Chair of Free Enterprise Finals above.

Imperial College, London

Product

Prosthetics Direct

Team Members

Bernadine Blease,
Andrew Reid

Advisor

Michelle Reid, Tim Meldrum

Prosthetics Direct aims to revolutionize the supply of artificial limb finishing products. Today there is no satisfactory chassis product available to give a natural structural shape to support the cosmetic outer skin. Nor is there a single source outlet for acquiring the foams, textiles and silicone skins used to finish the array of high tech. limbs fitted at rehabilitation clinics. The Prosthetics Direct product and business model will provide an immediate and cost effective solution for International customers in this niche market.

ITT Mumbai/SP JIMR

Product

Mini Power Plant

Team Members

Abhishek Peshkar,
Surabhi Gupta

Advisor

M.S. Rao

Our main mission was to make the energy of the future, which is clean and environmental friendly, a reality. Our Techno-Innovative idea of future cell technology and its use in electricity generation, led the way to develop our product BlueGinie, which is a clean and environmental friendly minipower plant. We call it the BlueGenie: Distributed Power Generation through Animal & Plant Waste based Future Cell MiniPower Plant.

Penn State University

Product

Sandwich Construction Speaker Boxes

Team Members

David Shelton,
Andrew Balk,
John Day

Advisor

Dr. Sven Bilen

Molded composite speaker boxes have demonstrated outstanding cosmetic appeal, but at high costs they cannot compete with more common MDF (medium density fiberboard) construction. Our sandwich fabrication methods require less labor than molded composites, allowing our prices to approach those of MDF competitors. Sandwich construction also achieves improvements in weight and acoustics. Our recipe for success is to offer a substantially better product at a slightly higher cost.

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory School of Law

Product

Rapid Prototyping Service Bureau

Team Members

Benay Sager,
Piyush Saggi,
Bill Samuels

Advisor

Carolyn Davis

Using proprietary technology, establish and operate a rapid prototyping service bureau tailored specifically for the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) industry. The service will be the first of its kind offering the capability to build features as small as 5 microns. By submitting computer models, customers will be able to get three-dimensional polymer parts made to their exact specifications.

Monterrey Tech, Mexico

Product

Digital Document Repository

Team Members

Marcos Guevara,
Adan Salinas Carlos Ble

Advisor

Josefina Cardenas, Ruben Alanis

Phronesis is a software system that provides the illusion that users of PDA and Cell Phones have a digital document repository with very large storage capacity where they can efficiently store and retrieve gigabytes of digital data (documents, pictures, video, voice recording, etc). The repository ´goes´ with them wherever they go and has special services for interaction with mobile devices and other PDLib repositories.

Stanford University

Product

Publishing Service

Team Members

Amit Garg,
Lavina Tie

Advisor

Brij Kothari

The BookBox vision is to become a publishing service that targets children to improve literacy and foster a love of reading. Our solution is to synchronize text, audio, and visual -- an innovation from our parent company that has reached 400 mi people in India. Our stories will be culturally-sensitive and combine both education and entertainment. We believe BookBox will appeal to people as disparate as semi-literate villagers or affluent urbanites who want their child to learn a second language.

Selig Fund in Entrepreneurial Studies

Roden Center of Entrepreneurship