Previous winners

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Previous winners of the bluebox Ideas Competition include:

2009:

First place:

Chengtie Wu / Yin Xiao (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation) – “Bioactive glass scaffolds for bone repair”

Second place:

Kimble Dunster (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering) – “Lockouts for pneumatic, hydraulic and gas sources”

Third place:

Andy Brader (Faculty of Creative Industries / Institute of Creative Industries and Innovation) – “3G remote desktops”

Finalist:

Jacob Redrup / Todd Malseed / Luke Ceccato / Dennis Damsma (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering) – “SmileyTeeth”

2008:

First place:

Professor Christian Langton (Faculty of Science) – “A robotic ultrasound technique for use in cancer treatment”

Runners up:

Toby Gifford (Faculty of Creative Industries) – “Interactive music software to accompany human musicians"

Professor Nathan Efron, Nicola Pritchard and Katie Edwards (Faculty of Health) – “A testing device to determine neuropathy”

Finalist:

Reece Clothier and Duncan Greer (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering) – “An automated airspace guidance system”

Notable mentions:

Ritwik Majumder (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering)

Sarah Bankins and Naomi Puchala (Faculty of Business)

Hugh Brown (Faculty of Creative Industries)

Associate Professor Neil King (Faculty of Health)

Christian Flender (Faculty of Information Technology)

Professor Des Butler (Faculty of Law)

Dr Tristan Croll and Dr Sean Richards (Faculty of Science)

2007:

First place:

Dr Ben Goss, Cameron Lutton, and Dr Lance Wilson (Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation) – "Development of a new orthopaedic surgery tool to cut bone cement"

Runners up:

Dr Tim Dargaville (Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation) – "A new method of improving wound healing using pH indicators"

Alfredo Nantes (Faculty of Information Technology) – "Artificial intelligence system for computer game testing"

Notable mentions:

Sam Wallace (Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering)

Dr Madeleine Schultz, Dr Mark Wellard and Professor Judith Clements (Faculty of Science)