I2P International: 2005 Entries and Winners

2006 I2P® Global Entries and Award-Winners

TED RODEN CHAMPIONSHIP

FIRST PLACE: THE TED RODEN AWARD: Imperial College London
The ‘Smart Bougie’
Advisor: Tim Meldrum
Team: Omer Aziz, Adam James, David Simmons
The Smart Bougie is a sensor-enabled surgical device designed
for the safe opening (dilation) of blockages (strictures) in the gastrointestinal system. Surgical ‘Dilation’ is a therapeutic measure used during the 400,000 operations that take place worldwide every year for advanced esophageal cancer, advanced colon cancer, and severe gastric reflux. These procedures all carry the common need to relieve a blockage (stricture) by gradually opening (dilating) it using a surgical instrument, but carry the risk of over-stretching or even tearing the structure with grave consequences.

SECOND PLACE: Trinity College, Dublin
Clear Deal
Advisor: Bridget Noone
Team: Wesley Cooper, Alan Foy
Clear Deal is a system incorporating special technology which greatly enhances conventional video surveillance of the casino game of blackjack. Our real-time computer vision system is integrated with concealed hardware to automatically monitor the game. It records all important aspects of play from cards to player decision-making patterns. The product does not require specially adapted tables or gaming equipment but rather works within existing casino infrastructure and processes. The product aims to boost casino table profitability by cutting surveillance overheads and reducing the gaming risk for the “house” (casino).

THIRD PLACE : Texas A&M University
“F.I.R.E.”
Advisor: Lenae Huebner
Team: Pat Gosselin, Delip Patel, Marie Hollinger, Bill Attar, RJ Hegedus, Andrew Arnold, Michael Edgar, Michael Waters
Imagine a fire in a major high rise office building. The fire department is called right away but precious time goes by before the first units arrive and begin to deploy. What if the first responders have access to a system that tells them where the fire began, which direction it is moving and how fast it is spreading? What if, as fire fighting assets are deployed, the location of firemen and major equipment can be tracked in real time? What would be the value in terms of lives and property saved? What would be the value, post-event, to arson and insurance investigators if they can “replay” the early stages of the fire? Giving first responders better tools, potentially saving lives and property and providing owners or insurance companies with better information were the primary motivators for the development of FIRE – the First Responders Incident Equipment – a product being developed and commercialized by students at Texas A&M University. A unique aspect of the product is that it has been designed to provide value to building owners or tenants during times of “calm” as well as during a major incident such as a fire, hostage situation or other emergency.

KELLEHER CHAIR IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE

FIRST PLACE: Texas A&M University (see above)

SECOND PLACE: KTH- The Royal Institute of Technology/ Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship Advisor: Terrence Brown
Team: Gary MacRitchie, Emanuel Fratini
Our product is a proximity sensitive media delivery channel which allows advertisers to reach their target audiences in an effective and measurable way. By pushing rich media to the audience’s cell-phones dependant on their physical location, advertisers can dynamically target their message to consumers when they are visiting commercial sites. The consumer receives rich mobile content of value for free, which he or she is then able to share easily with friends in a peer-to-peer fashion. As such, the consensual marketing concept acts as a starting point for a viral marketing campaign.

THIRD PLACE: Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Japan
Advisor: Katsuya Hirokawa
Team: Kohei Hayamizu
Today, I would propose a “Power generating floor.” This is a floor type dynamo, which generates electricity by people walking on it. “Power generating floor " is quite new source of clean energy from now on. The basic technology of “Power generating floor" is the use of piezo-electric element. When outside power is added, it has a character to create electromotive power. However, the amount of power thus generated is very small. Many ideas and devices are necessary to achieve good efficiency. The specific technology used for "Power generating floor" is a new power generation technology using "Resonance technology" combined with piezo-electric element. So far, power generation of piezo-electric element is achieved by giving single shot pulse for a short period of time, just like a flint stone. Additionally, the element is easy to crack. By combining the element with resonance technology, I succeeded both in extending power generation time and in obtaining durability for a piezo-electric element altogether.

University of Georgia
Phoenix Pharmaceuticals Executive Summary
Advisor: Charles Hofer
Team: Stefan Schulze, "JB" Reed
What are Your Products? Phoenix’s first two products will be an improved form of Insulin and Ultracilin™ SA a “stable-peptidecocktail” antibiotic for the treatment of Staph infections. Both products will be developed using the patented and patent-pending “peptide stabilization” and “peptide screening” technologies developed by Dr. Elliott Altman, Director of The University of Georgia’s Center for Molecular Bio-Engineering. Phoenix will take both drugs through Phase 2 of the FDA Approval process. Longer-term, Phoenix will develop several families of “stable peptide-based” drugs.

Purdue University
EPICS – ABIWT team
Advisor: Nancy Clement
Team: Kathryn Hood, Eric Ridenour
What is your product or idea? – In recent years recognition of the need for an increase of females in technology has grown significantly in engineering and technology circuits. In response to this need our team has made it our mission to develop new technologies that will ignite girls’ interest in technological fields. One such technology, and the focus of this presentation, is a wireless circuit we have developed, encased as an accessory for young girls which would come ready to assemble for an educational aspect, and lights up when its match is near, beginning a new era of the friendship bracelet. In addition to being a fun accessory this technology is then the gateway to a website developed by our team to introduce girls to a world of technological networking. This monitored website will feature the presentation of emerging technologies as well as give girls a chance to communicate and play video games previously developed by our team.

TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SOCIETY CHALLENGE (Feedback B)

FIRST PLACE: Imperial College London (see above)

SECOND PLACE: Georgia Tech/ Emory School of Law
TIGON Nanostrategies
Advisor: Carolyn Davis
Team: Matt Rhyner, David Madden, Meadow Clendenin, Tom Rafferty
Using nanotechnology, we have developed disease hunting imaging probes that can detect cancer and other diseases in their earliest stages. Once activated, TIGON probes can be injected into the body and will attach themselves to cancerous cells. With current technology, clinicians can only detect tumors that are at least 1 billion cells in size. TIGON technology has the potential to detect tumors with only 10,000 cells, which are easier and less expensive to treat and result in better patient outcomes. Ultimately, these probes will be used in clinics around the world to complement traditional screening and treatment techniques. For instance, our products would be used to determine if localized cancer spread via metastatic lesions after the primary tumor was removed. At present, there is no reliable method for detecting such small lesions.

THIRD PLACE: Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
Project name: Kidney Early Rejection Detection after kidney Transplantation (KERD)
Advisors: Hala Abdel Galil, Yasser Tawfik
Team: Mohammed Samir Mohammed Mohammed, Radwa Abdel Fattah Sadek Kotb, Hanan Hamada Ibraheem Teleb
Our Project is a medical software program for early detection of kidney rejection after transplantation. This will help physicians to detect organ rejection at early stages and also improves patient’s quality of life by reducing the number of invasive, post transplantation tissue biopsies using image processing on Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) which is an imaging modality in radiology, where a contrast agent (such as Gd-DTPA) is introduced into the kidney and rapid and repeated images are taken. Previous studies have shown that the sequence of MRI for a rejected kidney show a noticeable change and develop abnormal flow patterns that are not uniformly distributed throughout the whole kidney. Quantification of these changes can be used to detect rejections via image analysis, thus replacing risky biopsy procedures.

Stanford University
3DReality
Advisor: Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students
Team: Ashotosh Saxena, Rajiv Agarwal, Jean-marc Mommessin
What is your product? An almost infinite number of digital pictures are taken by general users and professionals. Many innovative solutions have been created to utilize these photos, such as online photosharing websites, real estate, advertisement websites, etc. However, users have the same limited experience while viewing the pictures online as they had on print paper: in 2D. We will provide a revolutionary 3D viewing of pictures. Our online service will automatically convert one or more digital pictures into a 3D flythrough; which can be viewed in any internet browser for an immersive user experience.

University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business & Economics
Barrierite - Reactive Barriers for Contaminated Sediments
Advisor: Michael Merenda
Team: Oliver Olson, Daniel Silverman, Michael Marchand
What is your idea? Barrierite™ is a permeable reactive barrier technology that employs phosphate-based minerals in engineered structures for the remediation of contaminated sediment in waterways. It is specifically targeted to immobilize inorganic pollutants including lead, copper, arsenic, and uranium. What is the underlying technology of your idea? Heavy metals accumulate in waterway sediments by deposits from industrial activity. These pollutants can then diffuse back into the water and become particularly hazardous to organisms at the base of the food chain. Barrierite utilizes phosphate-based minerals that bind the metals in a specifically engineered application. It may be implemented within a geotextile mat or placed in loose granular form.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CHALLENGE (Feedback C)

FIRST PLACE: Trinity College, Dublin (see above)

SECOND PLACE: The University of Texas at Austin
NanoTAXI
Advisor: Scott Evans
Team: Abiola Ajetunmobi, Jakub Felkl, Crystal Glangchai
Our product is an encapsulated drug delivery carrier. Our technology allows for a mass-production of a target site-sensitive nanocapsule (nanoTAXI) that selectively delivers its contents to specific sites and cells in the human body with the unique capacity for a stimulus-triggered release. The idea for our product is a targeting, stimulus-responsive, toxic/cancer drug delivery device. The technology comprises both the nano-size container and its manufacturing process. The device is a targeted, disease-responsive nanocapsule consisting of a container and a stimulus-responsive release lid. The process is a novel nanofabrication technique that creates well-defined, uniformly shaped and sized drug delivery devices for biomedical applications.

THIRD PLACE: Tsinghua University, China
Staff Information Gathering Network (SIGN)
Advisor: Wei Zhang
Team: Tianyu Cheng, Ying Wang, Ye Bai, Xiaoli Zhang, Jiuyan Cheng
Every year, several thousands of coal miners die in mine disasters in China. In any successful rescue, position and track data of miners is very important. SIGN is such a positioning and rescue supporting system. In disaster status, SIGN can not only catch the position data of miners, but also their life status (dead or alive), which are very important for rescue. By increasing the speed of rescue efforts, SIGN will dramatically reduce both loss of life and property. In routine status, SIGN is a very helpful mining management tool, which can record miner’s work attendance, position and track underground miners and equipments, and monitor work status in mines.

RWTH Aachen University
HEXMO
Advisor: Thomas Müller
Team: Saskia Schmitz, Albert Grosser, Alexander Tkotz, Roman Ostholt
Every year two million people worldwide are threatened with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by smoke poisoning, near-drowning or pneumonia. Existing products for treatment are designed for stationery use only, very expensive and have a high risk of infection due to their high priming volumes. The few mobile products work with overpressure artificial respiration and assume an undamaged lung to secure the oxygen supply. This method implies the risk of further lung-damage. HEXMO is a miniature oxygenation system for ARDS treatment. It is a small and mobile device. It provides oxygen supply by canulas that are disposed in the leg vein and therefore conserves the lung from further damage. The low filling volume declines the risk of bleeding complications and infection.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MobileFace
Advisor: Kevin Au
Team: Cheung Lap Chi, Chan Fai
What is your product? MobileFace is a face-recognition software for embedded in electronic products. It enables products such as mobile phones, PDA, or electrical appliances to recognize the face of their users, thereby providing better security and personalized solutions. Utilizing a simple camera and limited computing resources requirement, MobileFace can be easily ported to popular microcomputer platforms employed in electronic products.

Illinois Institute of Technology/ Monterrey Tech, Mexico
KlarAqua
Advisors: Nasrin Khalili, Enrique Ortiz
Team: Brandon Lloyd, Laura Grimmer, Amanda Gilliam
1. What is your product or idea? KlarAqua is a household water filter developed for use in developing countries and areas in need of potable water. The filter is made primarily from local materials including clay and sawdust which keeps cost at a minimum. The bactericidal properties of colloidal silver combined with the porosity of a clay and sawdust mixture enable the simple production of an effective system for filtration of contaminated water. Enhanced filtration is achieved by using a multi-level design where filters are interchangeable and can be made
separately to remove particular contaminants. This gives the system a high level of flexibility to address a wide variety of contaminants that are variable throughout potential communities.

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Partners and Sponsors

Selig Fund in Entrepreneurial Studies

Roden Center of Entrepreneurship