Personal belongings, valuables and other articles of importance are lost on a daily basis, often either through one's own carelessness or through actions of pickpockets. With @-LERT TM, the personal valuable assistant (PVA), one's mind can be set to ease as this device will alert the user whenever an item kept track by the device is beyond one or two metres away from the user, thereby allowing the user to take note of the missing item while it is still physically recoverable.

PeerShare is a new approach to legal Internet media distribution using traditional peer-to-peer ideas, but with a twist. We present a model similar in many aspects to existing and forthcoming networks, which provides a user-reward scheme that is both secure and flexible and can operate over a de-centralised network.

A large proportion of internet "content" sites (media, search, webmail, etc) rely on advertising revenue for support. Frequently this advertising is performed via click-through images and links. However, this client-side filtering of such material is becoming increasingly popular - the fastest growing share of the browser market is now "Firefox" (over 23M downloads), for which the second most popular extension is a client-side filter (with over 1M users). Such filtering has been available for several years, but is only now becoming "mass market", and thus having a direct impact on the global US$10Bn/yr internet advertising revenue that allows many content sites to survive.

Anti-AdBlock provides a robust solution to this problem, involving a relatively straightforward modification to web-server software. The most common web-server in the market is Apache, which is open source and allows for production of derivative works.

Anti-AdBlock is seeking funds to obtain a US Software patent to protect intellectual property before licensing modified web-server "know-how" to internet media and advertising companies.

BioBuddies is a revolutionary new approach to preventing tooth decay using pro-biotics. Despite modern dentistry techniques, millions of people the world over have experienced the pain, and dentistry costs, asociated with tooth decay. Biobuddies mission is to use its technology to make the experience of tooth decay a thing of the past with an innovative new treatment that is highly effective.

Swimsuit integrated buoyancy aid.

Creation of a web service that compares a particular shopping list and finds the total cost of the item and delivery using all online grocery stores. This is an effective way for consumers to obtain, in real terms, the best value for money online grocery store.

The product is an ultra sensitive MEMS based detector which will detect the presence of explosive and narcotic by receiving and analysing radio signals emitted from an excited sample of explosive or narcotic from a range of 1 to 10 metres. The device is basically an electro-mechanical microantenna which transforms the electrical energy of time varying signals into mechanical energy.

Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) is a new technology that promises an environmental friendly way of transforming heat into electic energy using natural gas or biomass. Special interest has been given lately to the great commercial potentials that low power portable TPV generators appear to have. Nevertheless in Europe a gap exists between this new technology and its commercial development. This business plan aims to fill this gap. We intend to provide energy efficienty in locations for people and organisation which are difficult to access or do not have a steady source of energy through an environmentally friendly technology.

More than 270 million people worldwide cannot be free to live in dusty environments due to the increasingly common dust mite allergy. Dust.IN is creating a new generation of drugs to inhibit dust mite allergies. The company will develop compounds that act by blocking the sites of dust mite proteins responsible for the life-threatening symptoms caused in humans. This new attitude towards allergy will 'attack' directly the allergic agent before triggering any human body's response. Dust.IN will definitely bring fresh air into dust mite allergy! Is this the end of vacuum cleaners?

DVDNOW will enter the US$10bn DVD rental market. This is a mature market, recently revolutionised by www.netflix.com (US$600m revenue) and copycat businesses based on web subscriptions for mail-delivery DVDs. DVDNOW has identified a significant weakness in the Netflix et al. business model, which can be exploited at relatively low cost, using existing technologies coupled in a novel way. This allows a substantial expansion on the Netflix model market size, while further eroding the core of the bricks-and-mortar DVD rental market. In a global market where clone companies are competing simply on cost, DVDNOW confers a considerable competitive advantage.

The product, Slide & Swivel TM , makes use of a novel concept that enables the seat to slide forward slightly and then rotate towards the car door, allowing face-on loading of the child. This significantly reduces the difficulty in placing and strapping a child into a child car seat. It also aids in the installation of the seat. Slide & Swivel TM is a modular component which has initially been designed for an existing child seat. However, it has the potential to be modified to be incorporated across a range of car seat brands.

FastFoils will manufacture add-on hydrofoils for personal watercraft, in particular windsurfers. FastFoils will construct the hydrofoils from carbon fibre and they will be sold as add-ons so that customers can attach them to their own windsurfers. These hydrofoils will be easy to fit to the standard windsurfer, simple to use and will add an exhilarating extra dimension to windsurfing.

Fig Tree has re-evaluated the value of traditional consulting models when applied to understanding markets in some of the poorer regions of the world (bottom of the pyramid). We offer a new approach better suited to help companies meet the needs of this market, through accessing the unique knowledge pool of NGO's and academics.

Flexibit Solutions has created a revolutionary line of home and office furniture using technology first developed for the space industry. Our furniture items fold away to minimal proportions when not in use. However, by using newly developed materials the furniture is incredibly strong and durable when deployed.

Our mission is to establish a fully-funded Floating Clinic to facilitate the provision of basic healthcare services in remote parts of Timor Leste. The Floating Clinic, a medically equipped and staffed boat, will travel around the mainland of Timor Leste and its offshore islands. The project will be undertaken in collaboration with a local healthcare provider, responsible for the day to day operations. An extensive fundraising campaign will be conducted in Australia, Singapore and the UK to raise funds to support the Floating Clinic. It is intended as a demonstration project, with long term viability assessed after 5 years.

Our proprietary technology combines nanotechnology and material science to provide simple, accurate and inexpensive security encryption through surface coating with DNA nano-enriched ink.

Communications software exploiting ideas from Sociology.

Reduction in power generation costs will reduce the electricity charge for customers. Two major costs in all power stations are Equipment and Maintenance costs. Higher efficiencies also cheapen electricity charges and benefit environment. Reliability is a very important issue in power stations. Each blackout can cause damage to the tune of billions of pounds. Most blackout caused by the failures of turbine generators. GreenPowerGenerators has developed a novel brushless doubly-fed generator for wind and wave power stations. The novel generator has less manufacturing costs (by down to 10%) and maintenance costs (by down to 60%) and is more efficient (by up to 5%) and more reliable. It operates in a wider range of speeds and introduces higher power quality into the grid (i.e. less harmonic pollution). The market for this technology is largely composed of power plant suppliers. Electrical motor and generator manufacturers are also the target companies. Since the technology is innovative and critical, there is great market potential.

Hermes will deliver high quality, highly customised, daily, sector specific headline news to the stressed and time-poor car and public transport commuter using dedicated technology and proprietary software.

Despite recent advances, the pharmaceutical industry is still pursuing expensive, and lengthy, approaches to the discovery of oncology drugs with limited efficacy and safety. This results in treatments which are unpleasant for the patient and susceptible to a reduction in effectiveness (resistance). Using innovative genetic manupulation tools, Horizon Discovery has access to a new technology which will allow itself, and partner pharmaceutical companies, to develop cost-effective medicines that are optimally tailored to specific cancer defects. By taking such a focused, 'personalised medicine', approach, Horizon Discovery will be able to reduce drug development costs and supply better medicines to the patient.

IC Medical is a spin off manufacturing company dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of a new device in the ophthalmic instrument market.

IDLink is an engineering start-up founded by Coventry University PhD students intent on commercializing hardware-based wireless security devices. The proof-of-concept product will make computers fully secure from unauthorised access and will be a strong deterrent to theft. The technology will be developed for use in a variety of consumer electronics and licensed to Original Equipment Manufacturers, with projected revenues in 2006 of US$20M. Currently a patent application and a working prototype are being prepared, with licensing activities slated to start in Q3 2005. IDLink: the future of hacker-proof security.

InfoLog offers two products. The first allows easy and free paper publishing and reviewing for less experienced professionals and students. The second allows companies to efficiently build and manage databases of expert knowledge. Both products are based on the idea that the users of a database whould have maximum access, i.e. building, maintaining and querying that database should be an easy and simple process.

The InterGenomics Group seeks to transform modern medicine by incorporating complex genetic information into the care of individual patients. IgG has developed the first practical method to accurately predict and alter the genetic risk of common human diseases based on each person's unique Pattern of Polymorphism. IgG intends to market a series of predictive genetic tests that can not only reveal each person's genetic destiny, but also empower them with the knowledge to change it. The ability to predict and alter genetic risk will fundamentally transorm clinical medicine by introducing personalised disease prevention using predictive genetic tests.

With US$33.2 billion spent on R&D in 2003 by U.S. drug companies alone, the number of drugs reaching the market is strikingly small. This is not surprising, since current 'out-of-the-box' target identification techniques make verification prohibitively long and costly. LAMA is a scientific consultancy providing customised data analysis and management solutions in drug discovery and disease treatment strategy development for high-throughput bioarray technologies in acadmeia, medical research and industry. Our innovative Gene Links Search Engine technology accelerates delivery of high-quality drug targets at lower identification and validation costs.

Lift-Pallet is a pallet-container with a floor that ascends and descends automatically as products are loaded and unloaded, having always the top layer of products at the same height from the floor.

Using the advantages of inkjet technology and the near infinite bandwidth of photonics technology to overcome the last 10 inch intra chip connection problem encountered by the electronics industry.

LugGuage TM is a patentable lugguage scale that is integrated in the handle of suitcases, trolleys and travel bags and measures the weight of the lugguage. LugGuage TM is based on a simple and reliable mechanism that works without battery power or electrical components. The scale allows travellers to check whether the weight of their lugguage exceeds the limit, avoiding the overweight lugguage charge.

Despite being one of the largest organisations in the western world, the NHS's communications systems are antiquated and inefficient; the time it takes for important information to flow through its many layers is a significant bottleneck, and one of the main contributors to the NHS's poor efficiency and slow patient treatment times. We propose a low-cost handheld communications system based on state of the art wireless technology: the Medical and Administrative Mobile Information System (MAMIS).

One-third of the world's population does not have access to essential medicines. Pharmaceutical companies have reputational and financial incentives to donate medicines. However, the medical donations process is not meeting its potential. The key problem is a lack of accurate and comprehensive information on unmet medical needs and sources of donations. The MedMap database will provide this, thereby facilitating communication between donors, recipients, and donation channels, and raising public awareness of good medical donations. By consolidating information crucial to all stakeholders, Medicines for Humanity will enable the distribution of the right medicines to the right people at the right time.

Trying to figure out where you are and where youre going is probably one of man's oldest puzzles. Instead of building up its own network, MPN uses the established reliable matured GSM mobile network to realise positioning function. Since the newly developed algorithm and software can be easily embedded into most recent mobile phones, the low-end users do not need to purchase any further equipment. While for the high-end users, we could provide specially designed equipment that could be a handset, or a headset, or could be installed in a car. The innovational attributes make MPN very accurate and cost-effective. This idea, as well as corresponding multi-stage product and implementation strategy plan, will be implemented based on an entrepreneurial company - Mobile Positioning Network Ltd.

Moonshine Designs is a design consultancy with expertise in product design, styling, engineering, animation, advertising and marketing.

'My Selection' aims to provide simple 'put-it-together' meal sets for people with medically-restricted diets. With a pledge to reduce preparation times to 10 minutes, our product is targeted to young professionals who have little time to cook, yet have high demands for good quality meals.

The product is a MEMS and liquid crystal based optical switch for 'All Optical Networks'. One embodiment of the device deals with electromagnetic control of micro-mirrors, the second embodiment is on control of light math using an electro-optic material and the third embodiment deals with control of micro mirrors using liquid crystals. The product aims to remove the limitations of optical switches introduced by Lecent and Tellium by a considerable extent.

Organic Memory Devices (OMD) seeks to exploit the discovery of a new organic magnetic material that, thanks to its ease of production and versatility, has the potential to revolutionise the non-volatile read only memory market by replacing existing semiconductor and metallic based technologies.

Apart from moving house, planning a wedding ranks among one of the most stressful experiences to be encountered, and that's only the financial side! With so much to take into account the pressure of liaising with so many different people in order to make the day a success inevitably has the potential to detract from the host's enjoyment. However, wedding planning, a lucrative initiative widely employed throughout the United States and still to be fully introduced in the UK can ease the stress by taking control of all the negotiations and administrative tasks, leaving the client with only the gift and the hat to worry about! It also allows still allows them creative leverage to ensure a personalised and unforgettable occasion, taking but a small percentage of the overall cost in return for the removal of a large percentage of the pressure!

Interactive website that reduces teachers' paperwork and makes administration enjoyable.

By providing a secure managed system we will offer users a worry free computing platform where they are free from the concerns of virus infestation and 'spyware' stealing credit card or identity information.

One in four women of pub- or club-going age in the UK believes she has had her drink spiked. PharmaVigilante has developed SafeStraw : a revolutionary approach to the growing problem of drink spiking. SafeStraw incorporates our patented SafeStop technology into a regular disposable drinking straw that can be used in both bottles and glasses in any kind of drink. SafeStraw is a low-cost, disposable, highly sensitive diagnostic test for the three drugs most commonly used to spike drinks.

Current mass-market mobile phone handsets offer fast processors, colour screens and the ability to run third party applications written in the Java programming language. These handsets are touted as a potential platform for entertainment services, including downloadable music, video and games. It is estimated that, at the end of 2004, the annual market for mobile games in particular was worth around $3.1 billion. This lucrative market has been the focus of many start-up companies, such as Gameloft and Mforma, and has increasingly drawn the attention of incumbents such as Electronic Arts. Podfun is a Coventry-based company, founded by members of the Computer Laboratory. We have identified an opportunity to provide a graphics middleware product to mobile phone game developers, and to sell a range of services around our product offering.

Faked goods are flooding into global markets as enforcement agencies struggle to keep apace with a sophisticated global supply chain delivering counterfeit products to consumers on a vast scale. Combining the versatility of plastic with nature's own strategy for information storage, ProductDNA is a technology based on a coding polymeric system that gives a unique, counterfeit-proof signature to manufactured products: a molecular bar code.

Our idea is develop the next generation of alcohol-based gel dispensers, primarily for the use of hospitals and other medical institutions. In recent years, there has been a push by many governing institutions in the developed world towards alcohol-based gel. this is because they are easier to use and more effective at killing germs and bacteria than traditional methods, for example soap, water and a towel. This report outlines many of the issues with current alcohol-based gel dispensers on the market, going on to explain how PureAid intends to solve these problems.

Quill Technologies is a new high technology firm aimed at the lucrative, but surprisingly under serviced student market. Our flagship product, the Boswell, is a note-taking computer, a hybrid of the sub-notebook and the personal digital assistant (PDA) form factors. The differentiating features of the product lie in its advanced software package and carefully targeted marketing campaign.

Repindex stands for 'Representation Index'. It is a tool which facilitates analysis of the stream of language. By continuously searching selected Internet sources in real time, Repindex allows the user to track the development of the meaning of language items and to extract value. Repindex is also used to search for information over time and make comparisons between results in different groups, such as different language media. Repindex is based on Discourse Stream Analysis developed in Mark Perkins' PhD thesis. It relies on linguistic principles of identifying and describing patterns in large bodies of text.

Everyday products, services and environments are designed within tight budget and time constraints. Consequently, designers find themselves prevented from involving real end-users to assess the ease of use (i.e. usability and accessibility) of their creations. Lack of user participation during the design process may result in inaccessible products for a large number of consumers. This project focuses on the future commercialisation of a Simulation Assessment Toolkit (SAT), which 'reproduces' the symptoms of physical impairments older and disabled people may experience. SAT is to be used by decision-makers, designers, design educators and students as a method of assessing product and service accessibility. It allows the wearer to experience in a practical and low cost manner a wide range of problems faced by users with physical impairments, when they are not readily available due to constraints typically imposed on real-life design projects.

Secure Architecture is combining the physical and information technology fields by using security as the segue. Secure Architecture will provide security services using a unique method uncommonly known as 'transparent security' to test the security of a organizations at the perimeter, physical and logic level (information technology). Secure Architecture will employ Architects, Information Technology, and Security experts all under one roof. Transparent security by definition is a security process that can be easily overloaded, thus not being obvious.

'SmartElec' is a plug adapter containing a chip which processes information about the electricity price sent over the power lines by electricity suppliers. It will be sold to electricity suppliers, who will distribute the plug adapters to their customers with Real Time Pricing contracts. The SmartElec plug adapters allow consumers to shift load from expensive to less expensive time periods by switching 'on' or 'off' some electrical goods (e.g. heaters, water tanks etc), and therefore reduce their electricity bills.

Someone2 will establish the world's first internet based community service marketplace designed specifically for amateur workers rather than established tradesmen.

We have developed a prototype of a mobile phone application which provides a very low cost and secure mechanism for detecting the current location of a mobile evice. Our aim is to build on this technology to provide an array of essential utilities, accessible from within the same mobile and web interface. The combination of these utilties and the user database is Spot On - the mobile, location based social networking platform.

su-chef is a system that seamlessly plugs into existing smart home environments and achieves the automatic coordination of intelligent devices. It employs artificial intelligence technology to transparently compose sequences of operations (to be executed on several devices simultaneously), which will meet a goal set by the user (for instance, 'cook lasagne'). It then executes the instructions, monitors the progress of the process, and adapts to environmental changes in order to ensure the successful completion of the task. In a fast-growing market such as the smart home one - an estimated $27 billion a year will be spent on smart domestic technology this year in the US, su-chef stands to gain significant market share in a relatively short time span. The problem of automatic coordination of smart home devices to achieve complex tasks, such as cooking, remains largely unexplored. su-chef will initially market its solutions to three distinct market segments including smart home providers, large restaurants, and consumers. The su-chef team intends to patent the developed technology.