{"id":7954,"date":"2017-11-09T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:39:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:39:20","slug":"7954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/09\/7954\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Krohn Creates a Cell Phone Application to Combat Snoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7956\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/krohn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7956 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/krohn-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Krohn presenting his application, Soundly.\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/krohn-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/krohn.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Tribune&#8217;s Richard Chin refers to <strong>Brian Krohn \u201808\u00a0<\/strong> as a \u201cMinnesota Genius\u201d in his article. Among Krohn\u2019s creations are surgery tools,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wizard staffs, a cycling workout app, and more recently, Soundly, a cell phone application designed to help people who snore by getting them to play a voice-activated game to strengthen their upper airway muscles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While at Augsburg, Krohn switched majors from film to chemistry, that\u2019s when his interest in becoming a scientist began. His undergraduate research led him to \u201cGood Morning America\u201d where he talked about a process to produce environmentally-friendly fuel, which was later commercialized in the development of a $9 million pilot plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot of times I get a little bug about something, I kind of just do things and see where they go,\u201d says Krohn about his ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/st-paul-inventor-brian-krohn-combats-snoring-creates-wizard-tools\/456148303\/\">Read\u00a0full story at the Star Tribune site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Tribune&#8217;s Richard Chin refers to Brian Krohn \u201808\u00a0 as a \u201cMinnesota Genius\u201d in his article. Among Krohn\u2019s creations are surgery tools,\u00a0wizard staffs, a cycling workout app, and more recently, Soundly, a cell phone application designed to help people who snore by getting them to play a voice-activated game to strengthen their upper airway muscles. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[443,3973,3972,2555,2818],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-brian-krohn","tag-cell-phone-applications","tag-innovation","tag-scientist","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9897,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions\/9897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}