Smart Chair: Moving the immobile with their minds. Alim Williams, Vincent Ngo and Edward Cercado are planning to give back mobility to people with paralysis and disabilities. By sitting in the state-of-the-art Smart Chair, people with disabilities can harness the power of their own brain waves to move. Understanding that all directional-command brainwaves are patterned differently, this team of innovators can offer the disabled a chance to move forward, or any other direction they wish.
Posted March 3rd, 2010
The six finalist projects for the 2009-2010 Time Warner Cable Inno/Vention Competition – created by 12 graduate and undergraduate students – are not simply brilliant technical solutions: In keeping with the school’s academic philosophy of i2e – invention, innovation and entrepreneurship – each was subjected to rigorous business analysis that every great idea requires to quickly bridge the gap between technology and the marketplace.
Student participants labored from October to early March to develop “the next big thing” in science and engineering. They attended workshops on patent searches, market research and how to present to potential investors. They also received one-on-one business coaching.
poly.edu/InnoVention
From Medical Wonders to Glowing Tennis Balls, NYU-Poly Student Inventions are Put to the Test This Week (press release)
