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PennVention is the annual student inventors competition at the University of Pennsylvania. Students learn how to turn their "good ideas" into commercial products or services.



PennVention 2009 Winners

1st Place: StealthRowing

2nd Place: Synerscribe

3rd Place: FlyBy

Lowenstein Award: Synerscribe

Bresslergroup Award: UTurn

Paramount Rapid Prototyping Award: UTurn

Audience Choice Award: UTurn

Meltwater Social Innovation Award: RecWave


PennVention 2009 Finalists

ChronoWake



ChronoWake utilizes advanced physiological signal analysis and processing in order to wake its users at an ideal time within preference metrics. Unlike traditional alarm clocks, ChronoWake interfaces with the physiological system to ensure that its users wake up feeling refreshed and energetic.






DIGITAG



DIGITAG brings the retail price tag into the 21st century through the use of digital technology combined with stylish branding and optimizing business applications. DIGITAG's revolutionary new concept will allow retailers to eliminate pricing inaccuracies, reduce labor hours, benefit the environment, improve inventory management, and enable dynamic pricing while improving the look of retailer's merchandise.






FlyBy





FlyBy is a web-based media platform that provides ad-supported music in a collaborative community.







Pink Foam





An innovative coffee/tea cup design that provides a fresh prospective on an age-old tradition and reaches consumers on an emotional level.







RecWave



RecWave.com is a national online community for Recreation & Park professionals. Fragmented offices around the country are currently organized through state and national associations, however, almost none of these institutions provide these professionals with the power of social networking technology. The three primary goals of RecWave.com are:


1) Help Recreation & Park professionals network and connect online for free on a national scale

2) Help make the daily tasks of the recreation professionals more efficient and enjoyable and

3) Increase recognition of the groups and individuals that make our cities and towns beautiful, safe and fun.

StealthRowing



Leading the rowing community in social awareness by returning profits to environmental causes and making rowing more accessible to inner-city youth, StealthRowing designs and manufactures specialized rower's training equipment that allows rowers to experience the full effects of on-the-water training while indoors.







Synerscribe



Synerscribe is developing a multi-functional platform to facilitate scholarly research by integrating automatic reference searching, citing, annotating and writing a paper.







TBM

The Automatic Burger Machine will revolutionize the fast food industry by automatically assembling and packaging sandwiches or hamburgers. The Automatic Burger Machine will improve sanitation and speed, in addition to minimizing costs for fast food restaurants.

TracFeed


TracFeed presents EzTrac, the proprietary infant feeding assessment method which provides early diagnosis of feeding impairments for the 4 million newborns in the United States each year. Unlike current subjective methods used in infant feeding assessment, EzTrac delivers an innovative break-through in infant health care by offering accurate, fast and quantitative results for infant's feeding performances.

UTurn




UTurn is a nod-actuated page-turner for musicians and the disabled. It operates in a reliable and unobtrusive fashion and eliminates the need for pre-loaded pages.

 

 

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