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XPRIZE Announces Finalists for $2.25 Million Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGELOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competition, today announced the 11 finalist teams selected for the $2.25M Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, a competition to develop breakthrough medical sensing technologies that will ultimately enable faster diagnoses and easier personal health monitoring. The final phase of the Nokia (News - Alert) Sensing XCHALLENGE includes an online voting campaign accounting for 10% of a team's overall score, with the remainder evaluated by a judging panel comprised of digital health and medical industry experts. Videos of the finalist teams and their breakthrough technologies can be viewed and voted on beginning today through October 30 at http://www.nokiasensingxchallengevoting.org. The 11 finalist teams are:
"Mobile, customized health applications continue to grow in popularity, providing tremendous opportunity for sensing technologies that allow consumers to take charge of their own preventive health through self-monitoring or that shorten the diagnostic process by moving it out of the lab," said Henry Tirri, executive vice president, Nokia. "We're delighted to help drive this movement and be part of the effort to bring these exciting innovations another step closer towards market availability." During the Qualifying Round, each team was required to submit a solution that will accurately, reliably and effectively collect meaningful data that can be used for identification or diagnosis of a disease, medical condition or health pattern. The judging panel selected the 11 most credible entries based on accuracy, technical innovation, ease-of-use, originality, portability, relevance to public health needs, integration with outside soft/hardware and multi-functionality. Teams are competing for a $525,000 Grand Prize and up to five Distinguished Awards, each valued at $120,000. The winning teams must demonstrate the highest merit in the areas of accuracy and consistency, demonstration quality, technical innovation, human factors, market opportunity, originality and user experience. The winning teams will be announced on November 10, 2014. This is the second of two consecutive, separate competitions in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. In October 2013, the Grand Prize for the first competition was awarded to Nanobiosym Health RADAR, a Boston-based incubator and research institute led by Dr. Anita Goel. For more information, visit: http://sensing.xprize.org/. About XPRIZE Founded in 1995, XPRIZE is the leading organization solving the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prizes in five areas: Learning; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences. Active prizes include the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, the $10M Qualcomm (News - Alert) Tricorder XPRIZE, the $2.25M Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE and the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE. For more information, visit www.xprize.org. About Nokia Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia's technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia. Qualcomm is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. STAR (News - Alert) TREK, TRICORDER and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. Used under license.
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