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Lunar Ventures 2008 Finalist Teams
Grand Champion
iShoe
Institution: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard University
Team Members: Erez Lieberman and
Theresa Tribble
Business Venture Description:
iShoe has a patent pending insole that rehabilitates the wearer’s
ability to balance, reduces falls, and automatically notifies
caregivers and loved ones if a fall occurs.
Runner-Up
Pyramid Sciences
Institution: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Team Members: Gregor Hanuschak,
Stephen Gildea and Alexander Bruccoleri
Business Venture Description:
Pyramid Sciences will sell innovative, cost effective space propulsion
systems and seeks to apply these technologies in the semiconductor
industry and other terrestrial industries. The company seeks to address
orbital decay of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the most significant
factor for long lifetime LEO missions. Terrestrially the company plans
to use the jet from Electrospray thrusters as a focused ion beam to
create a new type of scanning microscope, and can also be used for ion
lithography and deep ion etching.
Finalists
Geohopr
Institution: Johns Hopkins
University and Boston University
Team Members: Faisal Karmali and
Timothy Chan
Business Venture Description:
Using a marketing-focused strategy, Geohopr aims to be the first
mobile, geographically-enabled, social networking platform to achieve
critical market penetration. By collecting users' satellite-derived
positional data, Geohopr's data mining technology will deliver
innovative functions for its users, and will generate consumer
behavioral information for retailers that is unprecedented in its
accuracy and granularity.
IntAct labs LLC
Institution: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Harvard University and University of Guelph
Team Members: Matthew Silver,
Justin Buck, Noah Taylor, Ted Fjallman and Paul Grana
Business Venture Description:
IntAct Labs LLC is developing revolutionary biomass-to-electricity
technology based on Microbial Fuel Cell processes. Developed under
funding from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, our technology
has application in advanced life-support systems for human space
exploration, industrial and municipal waste-to-energy markets, and as
power for distributed sensor networks.
Lunar Innovations
Technology Development (LITD)
Institution: Utah State University
Team Members: Jeffrey C Boulware,
Franklin B. Angomas Mora, Shane Boone,
Cade Charlton and Chaoqun Shiela Lai
Business Venture Description:
Lunar Innovations Technology Development (LITD) seeks and exploits
innovative concepts to support space exploration with the immediate
goal of exploring the economic and technical feasibility of lunar
concrete. Future concepts of LITD's highly talented management team
relate to lunar mining operations, ISRU materials processing, and in
situ power distribution and their terrestrial counterparts.
Orbit Frontiers LLC
Institution: Purdue University
Team Members: Joseph Gangestad,
Jeffrey Onken, Mary Cafasso and Pablo Mayrgundter
Business Venture Description:
Orbit Frontiers is streamlining the path of information from space to
consumer with its extensive database of satellite data and telemetry.
Populated with data from several worldwide partners, our Orbit Library
is a complete research tool, providing a primary source for gauging the
behavior of past, present, and future satellites in the real space
environment.
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