Transcript Innovations Awards “Ahead of the Pack”

Innovations Awards
“Ahead of the Pack”
Presented by: MAPZ
Michael Griffith, Allison Hogan
Patrick Graber, Zach Hamrick
17th Annual Technology
Innovation Awards Contest
 Sponsored
by The Wall Street
Journal
 13 Judges from top business,
research, and academic
organizations
 12 Categories
 Top 4 Places
Gold Winner
Novartis AG & Speedel Holding Ltd.
 Tekturna, a drug that controls
hypertension by blocking an enzyme that
triggers it
 Developed by Novartis in the early 1990’s,
however there was no way to commercial
produce it at a low cost
 Speedel developed the manufacturing of
the drug
 It is effective alone or in combination with
other drug therapies and last for 24 hours.
 Called Rasilez in Europe
 Winner of Medical/Biotech Category

Silver Winner
Aqua Sciences Inc.
 technology that pulls water from the air,
even in the driest parts of the world
 Uses salts to collect water, then uses heat,
chemistry, and mechanics to pull the
water from the salts
 Sold systems to U.S. Army and the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
 Environment Category Winner

Bronze Winner
Joost NV
 Free service that delivers TV programming
over the internet
 Full-length, full-screen programs
 From the same developers as Skytype
Internet Service & Kazaa file-sharing service
 Peer-to-peer technology allows for faster,
more reliable downloads
 Signing deals with big media companies
such as MTV, VH1, Time Warner, CNN, and
Warner Bros.
 Media/Broadcasting Category Winner
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Honorable Mention
Electronic Learning Products Inc.
 Tune in to Reading software
 Students sing into a microphone, following
lyrics from the computer screen, the
software scores the singer by pitch
 Repeatedly reading the lyrics improves
word-recognition and sight reading skills
 $250 a year
 Can improve reading by more than a full
grade level
 Software Category Winner

Category Winners
 Computing
Systems
– NComputing Inc.
 Low-cost
method of sharing a PC
 Energy
– Firefly Energy Inc.
 Smaller,
lighter alternative power supply
– Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Used
liquid
sound waves to convert natural gas to
 Materials
& Other Base Technologies
– Alis Corp.
 Microscope
electrons
 Medical
that uses helium ions instead of
Devices
– SeQual Technologies Inc.
 Portable
equipment that provides
concentrated oxygen
 Network/Internet
Technologies/Broadband
– Tellme Networks Inc.
 Cell
phone directory service that gives visual
results
 Network
Security
– PGP Corp.
 Platform
to manage different computer
data-encryption programs
 Semiconductors
– Bioident Technologies Inc.
 On
spot ability to test liquid samples (i.e.
contaminated water)
– Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Superfast
chip that allows cameras to
capture extremely short-lived phenomena
 Transport
– Siemens VDO Automotive AG
 An
electronic wedge brake