UCF Students Taylor Cheeley and Nicole Enterlein took home first place in the USF State of Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition, winning themselves $10,000 in cash for their invention of Smartway.
The Smartway cup is a disposable urine funnel that enables women to stand while using the restroom, avoiding contact with potentially contaminated surfaces. It is designed to be mess free, inexpensive and it also won the duo $12,500 in the 2013 UCF Joust Championship.
“We’re working on a nationwide launch with CVS and Walgreens that will place Smartway in over 16,000 stores in the US,” Taylor Cheeley told UCF Today. “We’re also pursuing a federal contract with the military, partnership with the Girl Scouts and placement in hospitals and testing facilities. The future for Smartway is astronomical. We’re saturating the market, one purse at a time.”
Taylor and Nicole competed against seven other healthcare innovation designs including a portable, solar-powered autoclave for sanitizing medical equipment, a product that allows consumers to measure UV sun exposure and a non-invasive device that measures parameters for heart failure.
Check out the Smartway website here for more information on the product.
