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November 24, 2008 by Rich Whittle | 3 Comments

The Suffolk Journal:

The New Product Innovation Competition, an annual competition open to all Suffolk students, had its third annual award ceremony at the Law School. The competition was established in 2006 by Professor Sushil Bhatia of the Sawyer Business School.

First place was awarded to Marrinder Singh, Karen Lassko, Maria Brown, and Rick Baker for their Time-To-Toss Label. The Time-To-Toss Label will provide pharmaceutical consumers with a color indication label adhered to their prescription bottle alerting them that their medication has expired when it turns red. The team said that they were “excited to put the product in the industry,” and that they think it is “a very viable, helpful product.”

Second place was awarded to Ivan Echeverria, Fabice Kabore, Raul Artigas, and Pelerge Charles for Kronos Healthlink, a revolutionary health monitoring device that performs basic health information gathering for immediate analysis by the user’s diagnostician.

Third prize went to Lauren Berardino for DigiCook. DigiCook is meant to help people decide what to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It has a vast number of recipes and there is something for everyone from food recipes for babies to those who are dieting. It also contains categories for all types of food such as Italian, Mexican, American, Seasonal, etc.

The students were judged by a total of 24 non-faculty judges including Suffolk University alumni and the representatives of different industries, from pharmaceutical and software technology companies to patent attorneys and financial institutions. “The range of students’ ideas was very wide: from expandable sandals to an artificial liver,” said Dmitry Andreyev, a patent attorney.

Photo by Sawyer Business School.

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