H5N1 squad led past times Jacobs School alum Nick Morozovsky won the MEGA Startup Weekend effect this past times weekend at the downtown San Diego Library alongside Daybreaker, a smart alert clock that connects to your smartphone together with the light on your nightstand.
Morozovsky latterly earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical together with Aerospace Engineering. He is the creator of SkySweeper and worked on MiP, the showtime self-balancing consumer robot. Both won a Best of What's New Award from Popular Science inwards 2014 together with 2013. He equally good worked on Switchblade, a search together with rescue robot capable of climbing stairs.
During the MEGA Startup Weekend, inventors had to pitch together with idea, cast a squad together with construct a prototype, all inwards 3 days.
Morozovsky pitched the persuasion of Daybreaker. The device has several features:
It wakes yous alongside audio together with calorie-free at the correct fourth dimension to permit yous larn the virtually slumber without missing what's of import to you. Connect it to your calendar to brand certain yous never slumber through an of import meeting. Connect it to your favorite surf intermission together with it volition wake yous on the weekend entirely when the surf is up. Daybreaker monitors traffic together with volition wake yous if yous ask extra fourth dimension to larn to work. Customize the rules for yous to maximize your slumber spell never missing a thing. More information at: http://www.getdaybreaker.co
“Startup Weekend was a neat (and intense!) effect where I was able to larn the total sense of launching a startup inwards entirely 54 hours," Morozovsky said. "Working alongside my squad together with networking alongside other entrepreneurs was empowering, winning showtime house was icing on the cake."
The Daybreaker squad is right away entering the Global Startup Battle together with farther investigating commercialization options.
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