A Life-Saving Idea Whose Time Has Come

Innovation pays off for three young engineers

Untitled Document First responders, including firefighters and police officers, must often take action in potentially lethal situations. Bounce Imaging seeks to decrease the danger for these individuals with a throwable ball that can automatically detect potential dangers in advance. As the ball is bounced into an unseen space, its built-in camera and sensors transmit crucial information to a mobile device.

Bounce Imaging was founded by three MIT graduates and has been featured in national and international media. The venture was a 2012 Gold Prize winner in MassChallenge, an organization that supports entrepreneurs with resources, training, and networking. Most recently, Bounce Imaging was named a 2013 Popular Science Invention Award winner.

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Simple, but effective

This looks exactly what Jack Bauer needs to use before he goes through a door in "24!" The company should, in fact, see if it can get producers of an action movie to use this product in a realistic scenario in which emergency responders need to see the inside of a dangerous room (e.g. with criminals, or a fire) before they enter themselves.