March Madness is still a month away, but we know who made technology's "Sweet 16."  The people who run the Cade Museum Prize have announced their semi-finalists.
     The $50,000 prize goes to a Florida technology startup company or inventor with ground-breaking ideas that needs some seed money.
     Eight of the 16 entries are based in Alachua County.
     They list ranges from an early screening device for head and neck cancer to a social networking software program for newsrooms.
     The Final Four will be announced April 23rd...and the winner will be crowned on May 11th.
 

From a Cade Museum press release:

2012 Cade Museum Prize "Sweet 16" Finalists
The 16 finalists for the $50,000 Cade Museum Prize are listed alphabetically by contact name. For more information about the competition, visit www.cademuseum.org.

Alex Green/Green Pyrolizer Gasifier/Gainesville

Matthew Herbolich/Mind2Market Non Contact Vital Sign Monitor/Gainesville

Phil Hipol/Electronic Catheter Stethoscope/Tampa

Stephen Hsu/Delivery of Large Therapeutic Compounds/Gainesville

Ryan Hulslander/Irrisept/Gainesville

Qun Huo/Nanoparticle-Enabled Bioanalytical Technology/Orlando

Matthew Kim/Early Screening for Head and Neck Cancer/Miami

Ian Knapp/Portable Chlorine Dioxide Generation/Gainesville

Bernd Liesenfeld/Cankicide/Gainesville

Kathleen Lovell/Pacifier Activated Lullaby/St. Johns

Dominica Maggio/A New Kind of Topical Anesthetic/Miami

David Massias/Digital Clinical Experience/Gainesville

Joseph Moss/Spin Concentrator and Method/Pensacola

Craig Pagan/Navitech Delivery System/Melbourne

Ernesto Pretto/Intravenous Delivery Systems for Volatile Gas Anesthetics/Coral Gables

Kim Wilson/Social Newsdesk/Newberry