BFIIN 2006 AWARD NOMINEES
INVENTORS & INNOVATORS
Region: Bracknell, Berkshire
Nominee: Kathryn Mitchinson
Item: Paper Rucksack, or "Piggy Pac"
Brief Description: Piggy Pacs are disposable rucksacks.
Piggy Pac is perfect for adults and children on days
out and they are made from recycled paper, are recyclable
and biodegradable
Website: www.paperrucksacks.co.uk
Region: Windsor, Berks
Nominee: Charlotte Evans and Carolyn Jarvis
Item: The Buggy Boot
Brief Description: Designed and developed as a useful
accessory for attachments to pushchairs and buggies.
Region: Telford, Shropshire
Nominee: Joanne Elizabeth Bradford
Item: Slumber Bumper
Brief Description: Improved new product that eases
the transition from cot bed while building confidence
and preventing fall.
Website: www.holidoze.com
Region: Stanmore, Middlesex
Nominees: Ruth Chigwada-Bailey
Item: Criminology in the Millennium
Brief Description: Unique work on reducing women offenders
in prison.
Website: www.criminologyinmillennium.co.uk
Region: Stratford, London
Nominees: Nicki Allen
Item: Keepsake Memory Time Capsule
Brief Description: Time capsule that helps preserve
family history, mementos and memories, for safekeeping.
Website: www.mayzar.com
Region: Cuddington, Cheshire
Nominees: Mrs June Hutchinson/ Mrs Judith Houghton/Miss
Lynda Hutchinson
Item: Charles Jordi -Face/Hand/Hair Care Ranges
Brief Description: The development and formulation
of a natural brand of Charles Jordi skin products
used in salon treatments.
Website: www.charles-jordi.com
Region: Melbourne, Hertfordshire
Nominees: Morag Hutcheon
Item: pre.vu
Brief Description: A listening device built into a
standard CD jewel case.
Website: www.origgio.co.uk
/ www.pre.vu/
www.quadro-consult.com
Region: Hyde, Cheshire
Nominees: Jayne Lawton
Item: Grobox
Brief Description: Grobox solves the problem of creating
an instant garden in one unit, improving it biodegrades.
Website: www.groboxgardens.co.uk
Region: Penarth, Wales
Nominees: Melissa Edmunds
Item: Safe Sip
Brief Description: A fully biodegradable, lightweight
cover that stretches over glasses or drinking vessels
of any size or diameter, thereby preventing drinks
or liquids from spilling or being contaminated by
insects, drugs or germs, and allows drinking through
a straw.
Region: Cambridge
Nominees: Elizabeth Pimm
Item: Baby.go
Brief Description: Baby.go is a compact all in one,
nappy changing pack which opens up into a changing
mat, includes a nappy and wipes, and folds to become
a disposal unit. It is small enough to fit in a handbag
making it ideal for travel.
Website: Under Construction
Region: Manor Park, London
Nominees: Hannah Mensah
Item: Sing - Along Cutlery
Brief Description: Educates and encourages children
aged between 6 months to 12 years to eat in a good
way.
Website: www.bestwayproducts.co.uk
Region: London
Nominees: Sian Sutherland, Tanya Mackay, Kathy
Miller
Item: Mama Mio-Maternity Skincare
Brief Description: Mama Mio product is a safe, effective
and luxurious skincare to help skin cope with the
nine month s-t-r-e-t-c-h.
Website: www.mamamio.com
Region: Surrey
Innovator: Samantha Fountain
Innovation: Shewee – The Portable Urinating Device
For Women
Brief Description: Shewee is an ergonomically designed
molded plastic funnel that allows women to urinate
without removing clothes, either sitting or standing
- urine is directed away from the body to a suitable
place. It is proving invaluable to women faced with
unhygienic public toilets, and those whose hobbies
and travels mean they may be a long way from the comfort
of a toilet – no more uncomfortable squatting and
embarrassing bare bottoms! It is also ideal for giving
urine samples, and allows bed- or wheelchair-bound
woman to maintain greater independence.
Website: www.shewee.com
Region: Ilford, Essex
Nominees: Brenda Reay
Item: Animal Container
Brief Description: A thermally insulated (electronic)
temperature controlling animal container which can
be produced in various sizes according to the size
of the animal.
Website: N/A
Region: Highgate, London
Nominees: Kuldeep Kaur Bhangal
Item: The Multilayered Disposable Apron
Brief Description: Relevant where apron changes are
important such as in healthcare and the food industry.
It means that removing aprons no longer becomes necessary;
instead each layer can be removed at a time.
Region: Garston, Liverpool
Nominees: Donna Compton
Item: Whole New World Ltd
Brief Description: A range of revolutionary baby products
realised in practical form and developed for manufacture.
Website: www.whole-new-world.com
Region: London
Nominees: Cintra Jaggan-Vince
Item: CY Strap
Brief Description: A clever easy to use little device
to help people pull on undergarments, trousers or
the like without bending.
Website: www.dignifiedliving.biz
Region: Chippenham, Wilts
Nominees: Priscilla Labouchere
Item: The Right From The Start Bednest
Brief Description: Specially designed to attach firmly
alongside the parents’ bed at the same mattress height
in order to keep mothers and their babies in close
touch.
Market aimed at: Commercial & Domestic
Website: www.bednest.com
Region: Kenilworth
Nominees: Helen Mossop
Item: jigZZ
Brief Description: Compact jigsaw type, constructed
of EVA foam & contained in durable plastic casings.
Region: Neasden, London
Nominees: Jennifer Lake
Item: Bug-Grip
Brief Description: Clamps one end of the device to
a frame of a pram/pushchair and other end or link
to a shopping trolley.
Website: www.fredericklake.co.uk
Region: Hornsey-Vale, London
Nominees: Lesley Marrion-Cole
Item: Camefix
Brief Description: A way of making decorative Art
Glass Panels in sealed units, to be used in doors
and windows.
Website: www.camefix.co.uk
Region: Northumberland
Nominee: Judith Mathias
Item: Organic Hand And Dishes Liquid Soap For
Babies, Toddlers And Grownups Brief Description:
Home Scents Organic liquid soap is made from naturally
pure Organic Castile soap gently scented with Organic
Lavender, Rose Geranium and Chamomile essential oils
for their naturally antiseptic properties. Safe
in the knowledge that there are no harmful chemicals
or synthetic residues left the child’s environment.
Website: www.homescents.co.uk
Region: Caterham, Surrey
Nominee: Jill Greaves
Item: Disposable Nappy With Built In Nappy Sack
Brief Description: Convenient and hygienic and also
provides a very practical and efficient method of
disposing soiled nappies.
Region: Luton, Bedfordshire
Nominee: Janet Theodore
Item: The Baby Hair Dri
Brief Description: The Baby Hair Dri uses a safety
material to block the harmful EMF, offering full protection
to its users.
Website: www.tiptokkids.co.uk
Region: Luton, Bedfordshire
Nominee: Maxine Sinclair
Item: Teething Wand
Brief Description: Specially targeted at babies to
help relieve teething. It is made from a flexible
silicone, PVC translucent/transparent materials. Babies
as young as 2months+ will benefit from this teething
device.
Website: N/A
Region: London
Nominee: Kemi Laniyan
Item: Camouflage Café’
Brief Description: A new café’ that makes a range
of meals and snacks that specially caters for those
with allergies and intolerances.
Market aimed at: Commercial & Domestic
Website: www.camouflagecafe.co.uk
Region: Belper, Derbyshire
Nominee: Karolina Jones
Item: Two in One Cleaner and Waterproofer
Brief Description: Disposable poncho with hood.
Website: www.stay-dry.co.uk
Region: Penarth, Wales
Nominee: Barbara Ann Fraitis
Item: B-tidy
Brief Description: A device to keep a refuse bag open
and, at the same time, provide a way to keep small
tools and accessories together and from getting lost.
Market aimed at: Domestic
Region: Bagshot, Surrey
Nominee: Simone Walker
Item: ICYou
Brief Description: The product will appeal to parents/adults
that drive vehicles with babies and young children
on board. It provides reassurance, safety and entertainment
to make everyone’s journey safer and more enjoyable.
Region: Horsham, West Sussex
Nominee: Caroline Hammond & Lorretta Laker
Item: Sunshine Shades
Brief Description: It shades the baby from the sun
entering the car in all orientations unlike existing
shades which only work if going in one direction.
Website: www.sunshineshades.co.uk
Region: Lancashire, South Wales
Nominee: Jo Ashburner
Item: Noonoo© Comfort Blankets– textile, design and
product
Brief Description: Childsize, portable and light product
cited as an exciting product for the gift and nursery
markets. NoonooÓ designs its products using pre-school
children’s naive artwork - working from the premise
that child-led art - rather than adult-led art - lends
itself to a form of recognition in small children,
which in turn establishes the comfort objective!
Website: www.noonoodesign.com
Region: Merseyside, Liverpool
Nominee: Deena Keric
Item: Deena Designs International
Brief Description: Mosaic & upholstered dress
forms, mosaic wall art and soft furniture - an art
form showcasing fashions to their utmost potential.
Website: www.deenadesigns.com
Inventors & Innovators in
Industry
Region: Maidstone
Nominees: Christina Domecq
Industry: Spinvox
Item: Spinvox Voicemail-To-Text
Brief Description: Converts voicemails into text messages
and delivers them directly to a user’s mobile phone
or email. It also enables mobile phone users to instantly
see their messages on their phone screen and choose
how and when they respond.
Website:
www.spinvox.com
Region: Hertfordshire
Nominee: Julie Baker
Industry: Kodak
Item: Antifoggant In Black And White Graphic Arts Films
Brief Description: Prevents the speed of the emulsion
drifting over time, allowing more reproducible manufacture
of the product.
Region: Cambridge
Nominee: Dr Helen Lee
Industry: Diagnostics For The Real World Ltd (A University
of Cambridge Spin Out Company).
Item: Chlamydia Rapid Test & First Burst Urine
Collector
Brief Description: Development of a rapid diagnostic
test for infection, a collector that enables the correct
sample to be taken with a significant benefit to public
health, providing rapid, cost-effective diagnosis
of diseases that cause worldwide problems.
Information Technology Electronics
& Commerce (ITEC) Innovators
Region: London
Nominee: Foluke Akinlose
Company: Precious Online
Item: Online Magazine and Network for Women
Brief Description: Precious Online started as an online
magazine for women of colour in the UK, but has now
developed into a network and resource for women of
colour all over the world.
Website: www.preciousonline.com
Region: Luton
Nominee: Janet Theodore
Company: T.I.P
Item: Baby Hair Dri
Brief Description: The Baby Hair Dri is very quiet,
includes a novelty feature of shape - a flower for
the girl and a sea horse for the boy. With an on/off
switch it gently blows out warm air.
Website: www.tiptokkids.co.uk
Region: Sheffield
Nominees: Sandra Potesta
Company: Cybertechnics system Ltd
Item: v12 Universal e.Business System (UBS)
Brief Description: The overall aim is to provide a
zero cost approach to setting up a business which
will deliver a totally customisable, fully managed
on-line infrastructure and an income generating e-business
for start-ups.
Website: www.myv12.com
Region Norfolk
Nominee: Vanessa Phillips
Company: Outsec Limited
Item: OutSec
Brief Description: OutSec delivers top-end secretarial
and transcription services, initially through emails,
and then through a sophisticated web-based file transfer
process.
Website: www.outsec.co.uk
Region: Harpenden
Nominees: Dr Raffaella & Dr Elspeth Bartlet
Item: Drive on Line
Brief Description: This is a teaching resource which
provides a real-time link between schools and a scanning
electron microscope (SEM).
Website: http://local-info.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk
Region: London
Nominees: Franca Ibuzo
Company: Chesca technologies
Item: Biznets
Brief Description: Biznets, business network, inspires,
empowers and equips entrepreneurs.
Website: www.chescatechnologies.com/market
Region: Oxford
Nominee: Ruth Woodward
Company: HT Consultant Ltd
Item: Terahertz
Brief Description: Terahertz technology is suitable
for application to medicine, in particular, the use
of this form of light to study skin cancer and to
identify breast cancer
Website: www.htconsultants.com
Region: Brighton
Nominee: Sarah Naomi Lee
Company: The Fiankoma Project
Item: Fiankoma method
Brief Description: It encourages self representation
with an emphasis on positive role models for girls
and positive images.
Website: www.fiankoma.org
Region: Flintshire, Wales
Nominee: Maralyn Smith
Company: A-Rep
Item: Online Website Directory For Independent Self-Employed
Brief Description: Directory, leads alerts, and a
unique private messenger system to facilitate Avon
representatives to communicate – support -and mentor.Website:
www.a-reps.co.uk
Region: Winchester Hampshire
Nominee: Megan Beynon
Company: IBM UK Ltd
Item: "Peridot"
Brief Description: Ensures that links on a website
point to the content that the website owner intended.
Region: Alton, Hants
Nominee: Amanda Chessell
Company: IBM UK Ltd
Item: Large personal patent portfolio and a track
record of mentoring others in developing their own
inventions.
Brief Description: Current Chair of ‘Master Inventors’
located in England. Innovator, both in the application
of new technology and the exploitation of new methods.
Region: Bagshot, Surrey
Nominee: Simone Walker
Item: The ICYou
Brief Description: Child reassurance system that enables
drivers to view children at the back of the vehicle
whilst driving and children to see the face of the
driver giving reassurance.
Email: get_2_simone@hotmail.com
Exceptionally Creative Items
Region: Bexleyheath, Kent
Nominee: Pauline Afua Brobbery
Item: African Inspired Christmas Decorations
Brief Description: Christmas tree decorations which
include bead and Kente angels.
Website: www.alter-natives.co.uk
Region: Kenilworth
Nominees: Gillian Wesley
Item: Gillian Wesley Designs
Brief Description: Unique made to measure nineteenth
century style corsets and contemporary skirts using
traditional methods teamed with modern materials.
Website: www.gillianwesley.co.uk
Region: London
Nominees: Folasade Popoola
Item: Quute Illuminated Handbags
Brief Description: The Quute illuminated handbag design
is an improvement on normal bags as the bag enables
the user to find items more easily.
Website: www.Qu-ute.com
Region: Glasgow
Nominee: Joyce Young
Item: Tartan Spirit Collection
Brief Description: Tartan Spirit Collection is the
brand name for a new collection of fashion and accessories
designed in Scotland using tartan, silk and cashmere.Website:
www.tartanspirit.com
Region: Middlesex
Nominee: Tayo Nubi and Olawunmi Odunaiya
Item: African Ready Meals
Brief Description: Innovative in the creation and
production of African ready meals, sauces and snacks
Website:
www.mamaspot.com
Region: Wales
Nominee: Victoria Whiteland
Item: Inspired by Ruby
Brief Description: A garment that will decrease the
waist and flatten the stomach in the same way that
traditional corsets do and is available at a more
reduced price.
Region London
Nominees: Anita Witter
Item: Jewel Isle Rum Punch
Brief Description: Created two new flavours which
was totally against the traditional ideals of ‘Rum
Punch’ and changed the mindset towards these alternative
flavours.
Website: www.jewelisleproductions.com
Region Sutton, Surrey
Nominees: Yvonne Obuaya
Item: Yono
Brief Description: A collection of modern, sophisticated
lingerie’s with styling that is subtle, seductive
and sensual, comprising elegant, luxury pieces.
Website: www.yono.co.uk
SUPPORT FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Region: London
Nominees: Nicki Allen
Company: Mayzar
Item: Keepsake Memory Time Capsule
Brief Description: Nicki played a significant role
on the product development of Mayzar, a specialist
company that has identified a gap in the UK gift market
to sell keepsake memory time capsules.
Website: www.mayzar.com
Region: Cambridge
Nominee: Julie Baker
Company: Kodak
Item: Antifoggant in black and white graphic art films.
Brief Description: Key Scientist involved with identifying
the component and its effects on the system.
Region: Carmarthenshire
Nominee: Denise Harries
Company: Foothold Enterprises Agency
Item: Inspired by Ruby
Brief Description: A business Adviser and product
development agent that provides guidance, inspiration,
encouragement and wisdom throughout the developmental
stage of the product. Her style of managing projects
and people is a true example.
Website:
www.footholdenterprices.co.uk
Region: Buckland, Hertfordshire
Nominee: Morag Hutcheon
Company: Origgio Ltd
Item: Pre.vu
Brief Description: An audio device integrated into
the spine of a standard CD tray that allows up to
60 seconds of audio to be stored for replay.
Website: www.pre.vu
Capacity Building Project Or Initiatives
Region: London
Nominees: Abigail Cookie
Item: Gigart
Brief Description: Gigart is an initiative, which
trains people to develop their natural creative talent
as an entrepreneurial skill to benefit both their
employability and their commitment to social responsibility.
Website: www.abbiecooke.com
Region: Beckton, London
Nominees: Brenda Reay
Item: East London Inventors Club
Brief Description: ELIC was formed by and for inventors,
innovators and entrepreneurs. It is a non-profit making
club run on a voluntary basis which serves to stimulate,
encourage and promote the development of members’
innovative new ideas.
Website: www.eastlondoninventorsclub.com
Region: Roath Cardiff
Nominees: : Jean Bartlett
Item:The Bag Lady
Brief Description: Offers a service to national and
international women in business which encourages and
facilitates the use of technology, and empowers them
with the knowledge, information to develop their skills
in areas of IT, and conducting business online.
website: www.bagladyit.com
Region: Toft, Cambridge
Nominee: Annie Brooking
Item: Astron Clinica Ltd
Brief Description: A skin imaging company founded
to explore the commercialisation of SIAscopy.
Website: www.astroclinica.com
Region: London
Nominee: Chio Anyaegbunam/Franca Ibuzo
Item: WIMBIZ
Category: Capacity Building Initiatives
Brief Description: Promotes wealthy creation of the
global community by providing the opportunity for
BME and over 50 disabled women to network and develop
entrepreneurial, ICT and leadership skills.
Higher Education &
Learning Institutes
Region: London
Nominee: Dr Lorraine Gamman
Institution: Central Saint Martins College of
Art and Design
Item: Gripper
Brief Description: Gripper is a range offering different
methods of attaching bags to furniture in bars and
café’.
Website: www.designagaintcrime.com
Region: Bedford
Nominee: Dr Helen Ford
Institution: Cranfield University
Item: Optical Coherence Tomography
Brief Description: Optical coherence tomography is
a medical imaging technique. It provides high-solution
images of tissue structure within surface layers of
body organs.
Website: www.cranfield.ac.uk
Region: Cambridge
Nominees: Dr Rana el Kaliouby
Institution: University of Cambridge
Item: Cars With Emotional Intelligence & Others
Brief Description: A novel system that monitors driver’s
nonverbal expressions and detects if he or she has
been distracted.
Website: www.web.media.mit.edu
or www.cl.cam.ac.uk
Region: Wimbledon London
Nominees: Professor Anne Bamford
Institution: Wimbledon School of Art
Item: Innovation in the Engine Room
Brief Description: Promotion of community, capacity
building and the enhancement of quality of life, educational
participation, learning and knowledge transfer projects
through arts.
Website: www.wimbledon.ac.uk
YOUNG INVENTORS UNDER 18
Region: Neyland, Pembrokeshire
Name: Heather Lewis / Katy Walker
School: Milford Haven Comprehensive School
Item: Super Safe Ladder
Brief Description: It solves the problem of ladder
instability which so often causes accidents.
Region: Ilford London
Name: Meroe Dalphinis
School: Ilford Ursuline High School
Item: Pop Up Interactive Book "Dangers of Chat
Rooms".
Brief Description: It solves the problem of informing
young children and teenagers about the dangers of
chat rooms.
Region: Ilford London
Name: Fatima Altaf
School: Ilford Ursuline High School
Item: Travel Game "Human Body"
Brief Description: It solves the problem of keeping
children entertained on long journeys but also teaches
them about Human Biology.
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