Colorado Inventor Showcase

I had the pleasure of being invited to attend and judge the 4th Annual Colorado Inventor Showcase on November 10th at the Cable Center on the Denver University Campus. The event was terrific, where a number of Colorado companies came and displayed their innovative products. A group of judges reviewed their products and made some pretty tough assessments on their innovative nature and their ability to meet a market needs.

My pictures of the event can be seen on my Smugmug page: http://mlwash.smugmug.com/gallery/6573530_VjaLs#418504358_8Ev7S

Winners included the following:

• Inventor of the Year Award: Inventor - Beacon Biotechnology Team; Company - Beacon Biotechnology - Beacon’s BrightSPOT Reader, a hand-held device to provide instant diagnoses of any disease imaginable.
• Consumer Product of the Year Award: Company - re-thought; Inventor, Robert Irwin; BioHAWT - A biomimetic horizontal axis wind turbine designed for power generation
• Commercial Product of the Year Award: Company - VanDyne SuperTurbo; Inventor - Ed VanDyne; Fuel efficiency device called a SuperTurbocharger, designed to increase fuel efficiency by 25%
• Software Product of the Year Award: Company - Alchemy Grid - Inventor, Elliot Turner - Orchestr8 transforms the way you distribute and consume Internet content
• Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Philip Hartman (Age 14); Company - Fiberlight Int'l;
• Honorable Mention Award: Company - Smart Lid; Inventor - Bill Miller;
• Honorable Mention Award: Company - ET Squared; Inventor - Pete Tovani; Product to mitigate the negative impact of Human Beings on planet Earth.
• Honorable Mention Award: Company - Think Like a Genius; Inventor - Todd Siler, Ph.D.; Three dimentional imagination tool for bringing new ideas to life
• Honorable Mention Young Entrepreneur Award: Company - Kyle Invent; Inventor - Kyle Myhra; Spot Sucker stain remover technology