Holloway Prize 2009 Contenders
ADAPTIVE AUDIO
Concept: This new form of audio compression provides an inexpensive alternative to currently available digital audio formats. It is particularly innovative through its use of neural network techniques. The advantages to this new format are greatly enhanced sound quality and smaller file size.
Matthew Minuti '09, CEPS
Tyler Rideout '09, CEPS
Jason Lewis '09, CEPS
Faculty Advisor: Professor Kent Chamberlain
AEOLIAN SPRING
Concept: Aeolian Spring is a water purification system that treats brackish ground water in a cost-effective manner. The system uses mechanical energy from natural resources such as the sun and wind to power a filtration device that continuously collects groundwater and naturally purifies it for agricultural and household uses.
Brianna Mills '09, WSBE
Katie Leonard '09, WSBE
Tor Harris '09, CEPS
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jeff Sohl
ALLERTEST
Concept: Allertest is a handheld disposable tester that provides the means to verify that food is free of allergens. Allertest helps to mitigate risk of emergency rooom visits and deaths associated with consuming food allergens for the 12 million Americas who suffer from food allergies.
Scott Cannon, MBA Candidate
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jun Li
ANOTHER WAY
Concept: This company offers an alternative or a supplement to traditional wake and funeral services. Another Way provides a transition for the family from grieving to the celebration of the individual's life, with all of the wonderful idosyncratic components that make each human life unique and irreplaceable.
Anthony Matrumalo '09, WSBE
Faculty Advisor: Howard F. Allen, Lecturer
BEAR HUG
Concept: The Bear Hug is the only jacket that addresses the differential heat produced during strenuous activity such as hiking. Hiking produces heat in a non-homogeneous distribution pattern throughout the upper-body. The Bear Hug's unique design exhausts excessive heat produced in the torso, while retaining the minimal heat generated in the arms.
Tyler King '10, CEPS
Faculty Advisor: Professor J. Matt Davis
COMPOSIMOLD
Concept: ComposiMold is a unique, innovative new product designed to enhance the mold-making experience for a variety of end users from at-home crafters to artists and artisans. The reusable mold-making material derived from melting a safe, natural polymer is the easiest, most flexible molding system available: melt, pour and use.
Jason Norton '09, WSBE
Michelle Pirro '09, WSBE
Cole Connolly '09, WSBE
Faculty Advisor: Howard F. Allen, Lecturer
CONTERRENE
Concept: Conterrene's GLOBTM is a software product which blocks access to GPS signals. GLOBTM provides a user-friendly interface to allow quick access to applications and blocks advertisements and malware. The application will be helpful to protect the user's privacy and location.
Apurva More, '09, MBA
Deborah Mugherini '09, MBA
Faculty Advisor: William Burke, Lecturer
FOURMEDIBLE
Concept: Every year millions of cats are diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure, a potentially fatal kidney disease. The most commonly used technique for managing the disease is dietary phosphate restriction, but current methods of delivery are cumbersome and ineffective. Team Fourmedible proposes a phosphate binder in pill form to replace the inferior methods offered today.
Tina Dussault '10, EMBA
LIVEPOS
Concept: LivePOS collects and sells retail point of sale data to footwear and apparel brand managers. This data enables companies to understand how their product sells at independent retail stores and allows them to minimize costs and compete efficiently. LivePOS collects data using an innovative, low cost, and proprietary point-of-sale platform.
Ben Damon '09, EMBA
Faculty Advisor: Professor Juan Florin
SANNA TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE
Concept: In the world of documentary, reality television, and other non-scripted programming, one of the most important and expensive parts of the process is video transcription. It is through the transcription process that hundreds of hours of video are entered into a searchable database. This product will dramatically decrease costs by leveraging existing technology to a new application.
Brian Findlay, MBA Candidate
Muazzam Ali, MBA Candidate
Katheleen Schmidt, MBA Candidate
Ryan O'Rourke, MBA Candidate
Faculty Advisor: Professor Richard Saavedra
SMITHWAY GREEN
Concept: Solar Thermovoltaic technology provides energy in a manner similar to solar panels, but more cost-effectively . Using technology, businesses as well as homeowners can begin a more sustainable regimen of energy consumption while cutting costs by 40 percent.
Richard Smith '09, WSBE
Ashley Kelloway '09, WSBE
Faculty Advisor: Bill Hassey, Lecturer
SOFTWARE SKYDIVING SIMULATOR
Concept: Fifty percent of fatalities in recreational skydiving are due human error. These lives can be saved given better educational tools. Software Skydiving Simulator (SdS) is a training and educational tool that runs on PCs without any additional hardware. The simulator can be used by individuals at all experience levels, from the person about to make their first jump to the skilled jumper who wants to experiment with more intricate and expensive jumps.
Alexander Shyrokov, ECE Master's Candidate
Faculty Advisor: Peter Masucci, Lecturer
UNHCEMS®
Concept: UNHCEMS® is a unique combination of products and services that help institutions better manage the costs and risks associated with their chemical inventories. UNHCEMS® offers a web-based customized chemical management inventory application along with training.
Matthew Kramer '09, MBA
Forest Fyrberg '09, MBA
Lori Ann Taylor '09, MBA
Faculty Advisors: Professor A.R. (Venky) Venkatachalam and Professor Peter Lane
VOSONT
Concept: Vosont maintains an online database of copyright-protected music and contracts with universitities to help them comply with the U.S. Higher Education Opportunity Act, which mandates that they provide an alternative to illegal downloads. Students at subscribing universities will have unlimited access to our database through a feature-rich online player.
Jay Agarwal '09, CEPS
Fauclty Advisor: Tom Towle, Lecturer
WIRELESS SENSOR INTEGRATED METAL CUTTING TOOL HOLDER
Concept: Smart tools are a unique combination of metal cutting tools and wireless sensors that enables real time monitoring during machining operations. The data from these tools enables customers to solve complex machining problems - manufacturing parts more quickly and safely with greater control.
Christopher Suprock, CEPS PhD Candidate
Faculty Advisors: Professor Robert Jerard and Professor Barry Fussell.