Public descriptions of entries provided by each entering team or individual.
Each summary description also includes:
* whether this team plans to enter the $50K this Spring (Y or N)
* whether this team wishes to work with a qualified advisor (Y or N)
If you wish to contact any team on this list and cannot find their information on the private website, please contact Will Clurman of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition Organizing Team, wnc@mit.edu.
1. A2V
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
A2V will synthesize video images from an audio music source.
2. A Consulting Service for the Effective Use of the Internet for Business Needs
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We are a consulting service focused on Fortune 1000 companies. Our mission is to provide in-house instruction on the effective use of the Internet. We hope to help the client optimize their own Internet experience by guiding them to the various resources available on the web pertaining to their business needs.
3. A Room with a View
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Enable hotels and resorts to offer to their perspective clients a virtual preview of the room they are choosing, through the use of Apple QuickTime VR (TM) Technology.
4. Acoustic Coding of Life Signs: Patient Monitoring using Sound
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
In the operating room, rapid and effective reaction to changes in patient physiology is a matter of life and death. Despite the fact that surgeons and anesthesiologists are visually overloaded, with their eyes almost continually occupied, most physiological data is currently displayed visually in the OR. Thus it can be minutes before a crucial change in life signs is noticed. My invention solves this problem by conveying the five critical physiological variables via sound alone, in an easy-to-learn, sonically pleasing and intuitively sensible manner. It has received preliminary patent approval and is currently undergoing clinical testing.
5. Active Automotive Crash Optimizer
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
This system would actively control Active Crash Elements in an automobile experiencing a crash. The optimizers sensors and controls would optimize the crash sequence such that passengers survivability is maximized.
6. Active Networking Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Internet telephony is a technology which allows people to use either a computer or regular telephone to place calls through the Internet to anywhere in the world at for about one to five cents per minute. Active Networking Technologies is focused on providing the "nuts and bolts" required to set up Internet telephony networks.
7. Advanced Automotive Innovations
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A Self Diagnosis Test for modern automobiles. The system consists of a small device installed on one's car, and a diagnosis center that accepts the information the car sends. The diagnosis center informs the car owner of any suggested or needed maintenance or repairs.
8. Advanced Kitchen Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A company specializing in the production of kitchen innovations for the home and the food service industry. These innovations are designed with the goals of convenience and safety in mind.
9. AfriNET
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
AfriNET is a cultural resource on the Internet for the African-American community. We are interested in becoming the premier location on the World Wide Web for information about history, business, organizations, music, education, news, entertainment, sports, and more. AfriNET will also offer services such as Internet connectivity, business certification, Web page hosting and design, network solutions, and information technology consulting.
10. Advanced Neurologics: The Pharmaceutical Treatment for Alzheimer's disease
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
With an aging population on the rise, Alzheimer's disease is without a cure and is a problem of escalating proportions. Amyloid plaques found in the Alzheimer's brain are associated with neurogeneration. We will license MIT patents for the use of pharmacological agents that inhibit amyloid production, and we will also conduct preclinical testing to identify candidate therapeutic agents for further development.
11. Aircraft Rental Network: Expanding Pilot Access to Private Aircraft
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Aircraft Rental Network will create a national network of aircraft rental agencies and approved pilots. The network will allow insurers to track pilot records and relate them to agency usage, resulting in lower insurance premiums. Aircraft Rental Network's goal is to increase flight access for pilots by creating an information system among rental agencies and insurance companies.
12. An Internet-Based Computer-Time Commodity Exchange
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The business would create and operate an automated clearinghouse to allow clients who need extra computer power to buy CPU cycles from anyone providing access to their Internet-accessible computer. Our software would link up clients with providers, disseminate prices, ensure security, and manage payment.
13. AnyWhere Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
AnyWhere is the road warrior's secret weapon. It gives mobile professionals location-sensitive information capabilities in a portable hand-held device.
14. Aquasitions
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Aquasitions is an enterprise designed to provide continuous monitoring and data acquisition services to meet the growing interest in the marine environment. Utilizing the latest control, navigation, and communications technologies, Aquasitions assures rapid and inexpensive data acquisition and information delivery. Aquasitions' technological edge assures the highest degree of accuracy, repeatability, and cost effectiveness on the market.
15. Aquatecture
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The purpose of Aquatecture is to enhance people's psycho-physical experience of the environment in which they live and work, both man-made and natural. Our vision is to provide products and services that positively contribute to people's health and appreciation of life.
16. Art listing by email
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A server would search online calendar listings and make a personalized email for each person, including only the information they want to receive, such as movie times, concert dates, etc.
17. ARTLIG - Disposable External Artificial Ligament for Ankle Support on Demand
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Ankle sprain and injuries are becoming common in young athletes. In the U.S. alone 10 million people suffer from these kinds of injuries. ARTLIG will manufacture and market disposable external artificial ligaments for extreme athletics to offer ankle support on demand.
18. Assault Entertainment, Inc.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Assault Entertainment is a media entertainment group that will 1) create and produce innovative Internet- & TV-based content, promotional events and contests for celebrities and corporate clients and 2) manage and represent multimedia artists.
19. Assistive Motion Technology - Automatic Home Maid
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Assistive Motion Technology (AMT) plans to become the leader in the market of affordable assistive devices and home automation products for the elderly and disabled. AMT's venture is led by the Automatic Home Maid - a smart home automation robot.
20. Autonomous Lawn Mower
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The product is designed to dramatically reduce the labor costs associated with the repetitive task of lawn mowing. State of the art guidance systems and innovative blade technology will assure a high quality cut and safe independent operation.
21. AutoMap
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
An AutoMap will be installed in cars, trucks, etc. Its functionality is to help a driver find a road in a certain scope, from interstate highways to local streets. It comprises a small display, a small but powerful processor and a CD driver. In the long run, the CD driver may not be necessary but mobile communication can take its place.
22. AVS/Verify, Inc.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
AVS/Verify, Inc., provides inexpensive identity verification products based on fingerprint recognition technology for use in a wide variety of applications.
23. Bao-Haus Asian Bakery-Cafe & Bar
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Bao-Haus Cafe is a pan-Asian bakery-cafe & bar concept akin to Au Bon Pain and World Wrapps but will feature baos--Chinese buns stuffed with a variety of fillings-- as the main product offering. Other menu items will include Asian-inspired hot & cold beverages, noodle entrees, rice dishes, and wrapper-based appetizers. The cafes will have dual personalities. During the morning and day, the cafes will reflect a toned-down, postmodern environment ideal for breakfast and lunch. In the evenings, the interiors will be changed to evoke a more sleek, hip, cafe/bar environment for congregating.
24. Biogenic Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A company which develops biomedical equipment utilizing state-of-the-art genetic and biomedical technologies. The development of Biogenic Technologies will be based upon our first product, a rapid test machine analyzes the blood electrolyte content of a particular blood sample and analyzes the DNA of the sample to determine areas of potential risk in the future health of an individual.
25. BMW Ads (Blinking, Moving Windows Ads)
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Large buildings (skyscrapers) contain significant potential as advertising screens. An array of windows which are turned on and off by a computer can be used to display text messages and graphical information. Computer-controlled light switching systems will be manufactured, installed, and operated by the company.
26. Boston Bytes
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A low-cost, high-quality computer resale company. High profits will be attained through a low inventory, highly mobile distribution network to service the rapidly growing demand for networkable systems for the Boston area.
27. Cafe Breeze
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A cafe serving a new kind of delicious
homemade ice cream.
28. CartLink
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
CartLink uses the latest wireless technology to track customer movement through grocery stores (expansion to other industries expected). This tracking information provides store owners with vital market research data about store management and organization.
29. Champion's Sports Challenge
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We propose to set up a fantasy sports challenge where individual teams participate in a real draft to select their players. The sports will include basketball, baseball, and football.
30. Commercial-less Television
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
My idea is simple: a TV that automagically filters out commercials. Through pattern, visual, and audio recognition, it would be able to distinguish the real TV programs from the commercials. During the commercials, it would show or do something else, all totally configurable to the user.
31. Compilers for the Optimized Programming of Embedded Microcontrollers
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We will build compilers that will improve the performance of programs that run on embedded microcontrollers. Embedded microcontrollers are application-specific chips that help run: automotive controls, cellular telephones, network routers, microwaves, and a host of other products.
32. Computer Housecalls
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
Computer Housecalls: Solving your home computer crisis face to face
33. Conferencing Tools
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: Y
I've developed a set of Java applets that make it very easy (trivial) to add real time communications to any web page.
34. Credit Lease Securitization as a Means For Real Estate Financing
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Credit Lease Securitization -- By using the credit of a viable real estate tenant and a default free lease agreement, real estate borrowers can achieve greater Loan to Value ratios and investors can acquire an asset with favorable credit and return characteristics.
35. DataWeb: Supply Chain Knowledge Management
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A knowledge and data management tool to aid in learning across complex organizational structures, such as supply chains.
36. Design.Com
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A full service design firm specializing in state-of-the-art software and communication technologies for the design process. We explore design problems by customizing the design environment to the needs of the design team and the nature of the design problem. We provide immersive design environments using visual and acoustic simulation coupled with computational performance analysis of design criteria (such as area, cost, energy, and structural requirements).
37. Discreet Micro Devices Incorporated - DMD Inc.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
DMD's purpose is to deliver short range wireless communications in a variety of formats. DMD's technology will be embedded in the products of today and the future which require both voice and data communication.
38. Distributed Virtual Reality Systems
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The company will develop a powerful distributed virtual environment system by employing the latest development in Internet technology in order to develop state-of-the-art first-person virtual reality game networks.
39. DistSense
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
DistSense is a set of sensors places on the front and rear car bumpers to which allow the driver to gauge the distance between the car and any other objects that are it.
40. E-Pen
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
E-pen is an inexpensive wireless pen mouse. This electronic stylus would permit faster and more efficient color transcription of group meeting notes and drawings from a chalk or marker board. E-pen and its optional accompanying software can run on virtually any computing platform that uses a mouse input device.
41. Electronic Global Stock Exchange
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Investing in foreign stocks has been solely the privilege of institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. The common investor has always been relegated to limited means such as ADR's or international mutual funds. We will bring this option to the common investor through the use of the Internet.
42. Environment Automation Manager
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The environment automation manager is an integrated package of hardware and software which turns any PC into a home automation control system. From a PC, HVAC, lights, business machines or even small appliances can be monitored and controlled providing the customer additional control and potential cost savings.
43. "Fresh From Home"
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
"Fresh From Home" is a Asian tropical fruit distribution business, providing a premium, home-delivered product to the growing and increasingly affluent Asian-American market. Asian tropical fruits, including mangos, pomelo, custard apple, mangosteen, and lichees, will be sourced from existing growers within the United States, offering upscale consumers the opportunity to enjoy the fruits they previously only could get on their visits to their home countries.
44. "Fuego" Wear: Electric Towel Warmers
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Affordable, attractive, and easily installable electric towel warmers/heated towel racks for the middle to upper class consumer.
45. Genicon Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A biomedical service corporation that takes advantage of current genetic and medical technology base. The development of Genicon Technologies will be based upon our first service, a home-use DNA test kit.
46. Glow Core
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The glow core idea is exactly what the name implies. A glow-in-the-dark fluorescent core is inserted around the rollerblade inner rim during the manufacturing process. This glow core fluoresces at night through a transparent wheel body. This provides protection to rollerbladers at night.
47. GooseInk: serving up hot 3-d content
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
GooseInk offers a collection of stock and custom-built 3-d geometric models for use in computer games, design, advertising and on-line
applications. Our high-quality digital content is marketed and delivered to customers over the WWW through an innovative, proprietary
Java-based system.
48. High Performance Hardware-Accelerated Web Server
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
By flattening the excessively large number of abstractions, both hardware and software, in general-purpose workstations, we can provide a device with many orders of magnitude greater performance in handling network I/O to those users who need it -- especially those in the high-volume WWW site industry. As well, we can provide a turnkey solution providing greater security, reliability, and ease of use to all www server clients. One of our little boxes and a leased-line connection is all that is needed to put existing data sources on the web -- securely, reliably, simply, and at the full speed of the network connection.
49. High power monolithic X-ray lens
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Our newly developed monolithic X-ray lens can focus the X-ray beam on a very small spot with diameters of less than 10 micro-meters on the focal plane (for X-ray photon energy of 8 keV) and generate a gain (or amplification) of X-ray power density as large as 2000 times. This technological innovation could substantially enhance the X-ray machines' performance in areas such as medical diagnostic and treatment, industrial testing, telescope and microscope, and archeology.
50. HomeCenter Online
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We target the DIY/BIY'er (do-it-yourself / buy-it-yourself) and the small contractor with home computers where time and convenience is a premium. Online ordering of materials and tools is supported by online expert advice, providing alternatives and cost trade-offs.
51. HyperSoftware, Inc.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
HyperSoftware, Inc. will sell easy to use programming tools, starting with hypertext shells which combine the networking and interface of web browsers with the power of an interactive
shell.
52. I-Telco
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Our patent-pending product is a stand-alone telephone adapter that automatically makes Internet or conventional long-distance calls without any computer system or software. The user dials the phone in the normal fashion and the recipient does not need to be continuously connected to the Internet. Long-distance call savings to anywhere in the world will be dramatic.
53. Immersive Medical Data Visualization
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
We will provide an immersive environment for exploring medical imaging data which combines the senses of vision and touch to give doctors an intuitive approach to diagnosing patients.
54. Informed Decisions
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Informed Decisions will make social responsibility information about firms more available to consumers for use in their buying decisions.
55. Input Technology
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
For many applications, current computer input devices such as the keyboard and mouse are not the most effective interfaces, and sometimes are even difficult or impossible to use. Starting with a hands-free mouse, Input Technology will develop user- and industry-specific interfaces to meet customer needs.
56. Inspired Glass Incorporated
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Inspired Glass Inc. designs and develops glass windows that can be switched from clear to stained class at the touch of a button.
57. Instant Heat
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Instant Heat is a small heater installed during the manufacturing process of one's car. Running of the car's battery, it allows the operator to turn on and receive heat as soon as the car is started. It is temperature controlled to turn off when the engine is warm.
58. Integrated Robotics Curriculum
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Our company is developing a three-tier educational curriculum for electromechanical engineering based on proven technologies: a
microprocessor board, LEGO parts, and sensors. We hope that this off-the-shelf system will help facilitate the teaching of integrated engineering design for educators from the junior high school through the university levels.
59. Interactive Vending
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Interactive Vending is an enterprise that will create electronic age verification devices for use with vending machines. This technology will prohibit minors from using cigarette machines equipped with this device. The age verification device is easily incorporated in existing vending machines since it is small, inexpensive, and easily configurable. This could also enable the existence of alcohol vending machines.
60. Internet for everyone
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A user interface for Internet access that will enhance the communication between customers and the market.
61. IRONer
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The "IRONer" is a small appliance that finally automates the outdated iron.
62. La Angelita: 2 in 1 Cigar Lighter and Clipper
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
La Angelita is the perfect tool for today's cigar smoker. It has the elegant style desired by those that like the finer things without spending a fortune. The unique design provides the highest quality in cigar clipping and lighting. La Angelita makes a wonderful gift for all occasions and the breadth in styles and prices will fit every cigar smoker's taste.
63. Laptop to a Desktop
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
A light, portable, foldable table which can be used anywhere to place a laptop on. It makes using a laptop easier under a lot of circumstances.
64. LinksLink
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
LinksLink creates an on-line network of golf courses to benefit both golfers and golf courses. The service realizes quick and interactive tee-time reservation, provides golf course chart and conditions, as well as helps golf courses manage tee-time more efficiently.
65. Little Teacher: A Listening Dictionary
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Little Teacher does voice-activated spell checking and language learning. Users may type and guess the spelling of a word, but they don't have to, since they can talk to Little Teacher, one word at the time. The slick pocket-size device displays and plays back the words in the dictionary that best match the user's pronunciation.
66. LooseLeaf Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A company specializing in compact remote computer consoles with highly integrated input devices.
67. Magnetic Mountain Bike Pedals
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We will produce a magnet-based clipless pedal for use in offroad biking. Relative to current designs which rely on complex mechanical assemblies, we offer a less complex, less expensive pedal that delivers superior performance to the rider.
68. Massachusetts Mechatronics Corporation
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Massachusetts Mechatronics will design and initiate prototype manufacturing of advanced composite parts and smart electromechanical devices. Our first product will be a high stiffness-to-weight component for hard disk drives, allowing drive manufacturers to increase storage capacity and data transfer rates.
69. Medical Information Systems
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Medical information systems will through the use of data centers connect health-care providing institutions into a system in a pool of data that will help them reduce costs in the wake of managed care.
70. Melampus Enterprises
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Melampus System is a secure and comprehensive Internet / Intranet system designed exclusively for healthcare providers. Melampus links disparate databases currently installed in medical facilities and delivers multimedia information tailored to individual healthcare professionals' needs via an easy-to-use Web browser interface.
71. Military Jet Simulators - "As close as you can get to the REAL thing"
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
An adult theme park/amusement center that would give people the thrill of a REAL military flying experience. Using surplus military simulators we would provide a service for adults to live out their childhood fantasies.
72. Mind Explorer
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Mind Explorer is an Internet-based network with the goal of educating and entertaining young people.
73. MindGames Interactive
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
MindGames is an interactive on-line program that helps students prepare for college entrance exams and at the same time reviews the science core curriculum.
74. MindScan
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
MindScan is a company that develops and markets Brain Actuated Control (BAC) interfaces between the human mind and the environment. Using state-of-the-art signal-processing technology, our devices facilitate the interaction of the mind with the physical world, thus being invaluable in areas including aids for the handicapped, robotic control, and virtual reality simulators.
75. MnemoCode
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Make numeric codes easier to remember by generating natural language mnemonics. Naturally complements bank or phone cards and other products protected by security codes.
76. Model'ish
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Model'ish uses information technology to provide customized beauty looks to its customers. It targets working women who have little time to shop and offers them customized outfits of day and evening wear. Each package is customized by choosing from a database of standard garment parts, make-up and accessories and combining these to suit the customer's preferences.
77. Model Quick
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Model Quick will apply existing three-dimensional modeling technology to the production of attractive, precisely articulated scale models of structures and building sites for planners, architects and developers. The model quick advantage drops delivery time to 24 hours from 45 days needed by current methods while costs fall 50%.
78. Muse Service
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Muse Service revolutionizes the museum tour by applying commonly-used technologies in a new and innovative way. A museum browser can access the knowledge of experts to suit their individual interests, making their visit more educational and enjoyable.
79. Music Maestro
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The music maestro system is an inexpensive integrated package of hardware and software which allows the music enthusiast, regardless of his or her training, to learn and actually conduct a symphony of CD audio quality in the comfort of the home environment. The system features a wireless conducting device (baton) which senses the motion of the user's hand, and transforms his or her gestures into musical commands for various functions such as learning or entertainment. The system, much like karaoke, encourages people to interact directly with the music in informal settings.
80. National Bookmart for Used Textbooks
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Many colleges like MIT sell predominantly new books, or have only one bookstore from which students can purchase texts from. Our service
provides an opportunity for students to purchase used texts at a discounted price.
81. Neonatal Incubator Set for the Mexican market
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We will develop and market three modern, high-quality neonatal thermal support devices that share major components in a semi-modular fashion. These devices are: (1) the general- and (2) intensive-care infant incubator, (3) the infant radiant warmer, and (4) the infant re-animation table. This product line will offer a high quality, but lower cost alternative to Mexican health care providers.
82. NetCampus - Internet Distance Learning
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
NetCampus is a software system that enables distance learning of the Internet by combining the best aspects of instructor-led and media-centered education.
83. NetClass - Bringing the Internet to Children
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
NetClass seeks to bring the power of the Internet to children to improve creativity, social skills, computer sophistication, and enjoyment of education.
84. NetDrug - Online Help For Doctors
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
NetDrug is an online services providing information to doctors about drugs suited to a patient's unique needs.
85. NetTV
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
NetTV is a portable device that is easily connected to a television set and has a modem connection to access the Internet. Using a portable hand-held pointer to navigate the web through the NetTV, users will be able easily access the wealth of information contained on the Internet.
86. New Visions Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
New Visions Technologies is a new service to provide immediate solutions to the specialized needs of the film, television, and audio industries. By combining off-the-shelf technologies in new ways, we can supply lower-cost, custom hardware solutions to our budget-conscious customers that are traditionally accessible only through high-cost studio-based firms.
87. Nowledge
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We intend to harness the full power of the Intranet for large-scale and day-to-day computational tasks.
88. "OnBoard Communication" systems
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Implementing "wearable computers," similar to those created by the MIT Multi-Media Labs, in Class 1 silicon fabrication facilities to network the operators for improved overall communications, process control, process efficiency and safety.
89. OnLine Billing Services
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
One of the major limitations of commercial utilization of the Internet is the lack of demographic information and usage monitoring, and customer billing support. We intend to provide an automatic centralized billing service for information providers and demographic reports for advertisers. Information extracted from usage tracking and billing summaries will allow us to provide value-added services, such as reports that will assist advertisers in reaching potential customers.
90. OpenView Technologies
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
OpenView Technologies offers innovative flat panel display products.
91. Patchwork: Shared Webtop Environment
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Creating a shared, Internet-powered 'project-space' environment. Augmenting the concepts of the desktop environment by merging them with the WWW, unifying remote workspaces within a single shared team 'Webtop'. This environment offers visual project tracking coupled with intuitive multi-modal forms of communication between team members.
92. Perfect Underwear
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Custom fit undergarments and intimate apparel for women. Computer imaging is used to design a personal, individualized garment that fits perfectly every time!
93. Peripheral Visions
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Peripheral Visions (PV) develops alternative input devices for the personal computer and workstation industries. PV seeks to couple
ergonomics and functionality in the form of comfortable and efficient input devices.
94. Pet Search
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
Where, oh, where has my little dog gone?
With a small investment in a Pet Search collar and a per-incident finding fee, Pet Search insures pet owners that Rover will not be missing for long. Wireless communication technology in the collar provides pet owners with a map served from the World Wide Web locating their missing pets.
95. Pocket Solutions
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Pocket Solutions will provide data management software for Personal Digital Assistants. The software will enable remote users to access and manipulate information in existing central databases.
96. Pockets
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: Y
Software for small portable computers
97. Precision Soldering Device
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Advanced Soldering Technologies (AST) will address an unfilled need in the electronics assembly industry for precision temperature-controlled hand soldering devices meeting the need for high reliability soldering and Statistical Process Control. AST will produce a computer-controlled soldering station which is unlike anything currently available in the U.S. and which will ensure steadfast reliability and repeatability during the assembly of sensitive electronic components.
98. Product Exchange Market for Students (Internet)
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Create a secondary market for students, faculty, employees and others in buying and selling their goods. Sellers will post the information and photos (optional) of their goods on a web-page created by the firm where buyers will obtain the information to make the purchase. Buyers and sellers also will be able to participate in Auctions and create bundles.
99. Quality Computer Game
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The PC market for "adventure games" (e.g. King's Quest) is wide open. All the best adventure games were made about six years ago. These days, adventure games have graphics and sound, but no good stories or humor, which is what the genre is really all about. Our low risk venture is to create the highest quality adventure game possible, focusing on content rather than technology.
100. Reality Creations
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Reality Creations will develop a software engine to be used in the creation of interactive, non-linear games and simulations.
101. Renee's Salon of the Future
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Renee's Salon of the Future will combine traditional services with new technologies to create the salon of the 21st century. It will be equipped with services to accommodate people from backgrounds ranging from the single parent to the business professional. It will create a unique environment that promotes networking, basic Internet literacy, and delivers quality hair-care services, to name a few, to its customers.
102. Scribe Datastores
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Scribe datastores are virtual constructs that allow businesses, organizations and individuals to store information that can be securely accessed, modified and contributed to by the Internet community. In other words, they are dynamic clearinghouses for information and help groups constructively work together.
103. Sensoria
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Sensoria will develop and market a broad line of proprietary vapor-detection systems.
104. Shockblades
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A unique 4-wheel independent suspension system for in-line skates that will smooth the ride and give added stability.
105. SIDS - Semantic Integrator of Data Sources
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We will provide a tool for resolving the differences among the meaning of data provided by different autonomous datasources. This product will be important to any entity that uses information from a variety of sources which make different assumptions about the meaning of the data they provide.
106. SlickGuard
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The SlickGuard is a polyurethane casing which stretches and is slipped over the circumference of the rollerblade wheel. The SlickGuard is designed to prevent rollerblade wheel wear. The wear resistant casing is specially molded to match the outer wheel contour, is available in many sizes and is durable.
107. SoftPhone/TTY: A fully accessible software-based phone system for computers.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
SoftPhone/TTY turns your computer into a answering machine, voice mail center, and emulated TTY (for use with deaf and voice-impaired people).
108. South African Bicycle Corporation
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Low-cost bicycles to cut down on commuting time and money for low-income South African workers commuting from "shanty towns" into city centers and to worksites of large employers (such as assembly plants) near large urban centers.
109. Spacebars
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
We have developed an innovative product for the mountain bike industry. This product offers a new feature never before available. Spacebars is a component which can be retrofitted on existing bikes, and allows easier storage and transportation of bicycles.
110. SpaceDat
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
SpaceDat is a consulting and consumer services company providing real-time remote access to geographical databases to assist spatial decision making, whether the question is "Where's the nearest Greek restaurant?" or "Is this a good site for a new hotel complex?"
111. SpaMedica
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The opportunity concept is to establish a chain of specialty medical clinics in the U.S. and Canada offering a wide range of technology-enhanced procedures to patients requiring cosmetic skin surgery. The proposal involves the marriage of technology and credible physicians within a unique facility similar to a high-end retail spa.
112. Speed Technology
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A company that develops software enabling a computer to transmit and receive a stream of data through more than one telephone simultaneously, thus doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling data access speed over conventional phone lines.
113. Spoil Strips
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Spoil Strips are small, colored "strips" that are placed on food packaging. When the food nears, or reaches its expiration date, the strip changes color to indicate that the food has gone bad.
114. SportsFund USA
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
Wall Street is continuously searching for financial innovation to securitize assets. The mission of SportsFund USA is to purchase sports teams in each of the major professional sports leagues and unite management under an institutional arrangement. In essence, investors in the fund would become owners of the teams and be entitled to discounts on tickets, memorabilia, team merchandise, hotel stays, and travel as their dividends.
115. Student/Researcher Database and Bibliographic Software
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A powerful application that permits students and researchers to instantly access their notes taken in class or while reading according to simple subject headings. Excerpts can be conveniently selected for use in writing papers with footnotes and bibliography automatically prepared.
116. Telecommunications Concepts, Inc.
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Our primary product would be a small, inexpensive, 32 line telephone switching system. It costs under $2000, fits under a desk, can be set-up with one call to the telephone company, and provides the organization using it with superior telephone service at a low cost.
117. The Course Source
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Course Source will sell textbooks at a discount on the Internet.
118. The Online Resume Initiative
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Online Resume Initiative (T.O.R.I) will use the capabilities of the World Wide Web and the Internet to facilitate college students' hunt for employment. T.O.R.I. will use the capabilities of the World Wide Web and the Internet to facilitate interaction between companies and students.
119. The R Fund
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
A radically different type of mutual fund.
120. The Sleep Stopper
$50K: N
Qualified advisor: N
A device which can be attached to a person's wrist. This gives a light shock to the person if the eyelids of the person close for an extended period of time, thereby preventing her/him from dozing off to sleep.
121. The Thompson School
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Thompson School is the private school of the future. The Thompson school emphasizes the use of modern technology and personal attention in bringing out the best in each student.
122. The Unbrella
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The Unbrella is a revolutionary new rain deterrent. The application of modern materials and engineering will make the Unbrella an unbreakable, aerodynamic, lightweight, easy-to-use, and elegant product. It will transform the typical umbrella from an unreliable and increasingly disposable item into a trustworthy and functional accessory.
123. Ticketmaster
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Ticketmaster is an instrument that will improve parking control done by a policeman and woman in the US and abroad, and allowing electronic monitoring of parked cars.
124. Toilet Support
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The regular toilet seat was made decades ago an a functional device. It didn't take into account the physical design or the personal comfort of the user. The Toilet Support is a redesigned toilet seat, made specifically for the comfort of humans. Designs will range from men and women specialized seats, to overweight, elderly and handicapped seats. Each design taking into account the special needs and figure of the user.
125. TWISTERR - Temporary Worker Information System Enabling Rapid Response
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
This product/service fully automates the work of an employment agency from the employee and employer point of view. It brings economies of scale to the industry, creating a high quality, value-added service, with competitive advantage through the combination of existing technologies in an innovative way.
126. VCR Phone Activiating System
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Essentially, the problem arises when one leaves home and forgets to set the VCR to tape something. A small attachment to an existing answering machine would be able to activate the VCR through the phone.
127. Venture-Net
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: N
Every new venture seeks financing. Every VC's biggest problem is finding promising new ventures. This service will bring the two together.
128. Virtual Realty
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Virtual Realty is a cutting-edge concept in global real estate sales technology. Customers entering a real estate office will don a virtual reality helmet and "visit" potential apartments in virtual reality. The apartments will either be downloaded from a worldwide Web site, or transmitted to the office via a leased line. The user would view a full video "tour" of the listing in an attempt to narrow down the number of places that must be visited before renting/buying. It saves cost and time, and makes the real estate market more globalized.
129. "Virtual Tracking with 2D Bar Codes"
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
"Virtual Tracking" is a system that uses 2D bar codes and e-mail to provide up to date information to retailers, distributors, and manufacturers about product movements throughout the supply chain.
130. Voice Access
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The increasing use of computers and networks to carry out business and personal communications makes e-mail one of the most significant forms of messaging. However, e-mail access is somewhat limited and awkward especially when response time is critical, because it requires the use of a computer to read and reply to e-mails. Voice Access enhances the utility of e-mail by allowing people to read and reply to their e-mails as well as voice mails using the telephone.
131. Voice Net
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Use the existing telephone network, particularly wireless, to access information available in the Internet, especially news.
132. VotedInfo
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
VotedInfo offers a document quality-and-relevance rating system that helps solve the problem of information overload through the use of collaborative group value judgments.
133. Wearable Computing/Personal Imaging invention
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
The invention comprises a body-worn computer with a display screen over one eye, connected to the computer, so that the apparatus may be used while walking, standing in line at the bank, or the like (e.g. in nearly every facet of day-to-day living). Current prototypes comprise a single hat-mounted antenna, or conformal antenna sewn into clothing. Furthermore, additional innovations (such as the wearable face recognizer that runs all the time) make use of the first-person perspective to improve the quality of life for both the disabled, as well as the general mainstream population.
134. Web Tutor
$50K:
Qualified advisor:
Through the use of Internet technology, Web Tutor provides high quality individualized content to students of all types. Web Tutor allows for real time interaction between teachers and students over a broad distribution network. Envisioning that schools will reform to provide "Super Star" teachers through numerous media distribution channels, Web Tutor provides the needed supplemental technology to maintain personalized training.
135. Web-merchandiser
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Using state-of-the-art multimedia technology on the Internet to provide cost-effective merchandising services for companies to buy and sell raw materials and products between Greater China (China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) and developed countries. This service revolutionizes the traditional costly and relationship-based merchandising approach in China. In the future, the Chinese trade will be more transparent and open to the western companies. This service represents a new paradigm of trading in the 21st Century.
136. WebRealty
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
WebRealty is an interactive Internet-based service that provides information about Boston-area apartments to prospective tenants. This service drastically simplifies for tenants the dreaded process of finding a place to live, while assisting real estate agents in filling available apartments.
137. WWW.freelaw.com
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
An on-line information resource for professional service industries.
138. Xpans: Object-Oriented Information System for Biotech Research Laboratories
$50K: Y
Qualified advisor: Y
Xpans will develop an integrated system to replace many of the general lab manager administrative functions and allow inter-lab cooperation across organizational and geographic boundaries through shared databases and real time data exchange.