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## Inspiration Recent mass shooting events are indicative of a rising, unfortunate trend in the United States. During a shooting, someone may be killed every 3 seconds on average, while it takes authorities an average of 10 minutes to arrive on a crime scene after a distress call. In addition, cameras and live closed ...
## Inspiration One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss. Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe...
## Inspiration We were inspired by all the people who go along their days thinking that no one can actually relate to what they are experiencing. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a mental toll on many of us and has kept us feeling isolated. We wanted to make an easy to use web-app which keeps people connected and allow...
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## Inspiration In today’s day and age, there are countless datasets available containing valuable information about any given location. This includes analytics based on urban infrastructures (dangerous intersections), traffic, and many more. Using these datasets and recent data analytics techniques, a modernized appro...
## Inspiration One of the biggest problems during this COVID-19 pandemic and these awful times in general is that thousands of people are filing for property and casualty insurance. As a result, insurance companies are receiving an influx of insurance claims, causing longer processing times. These delays not only hurt...
## Inspiration Currently the insurance claims process is quite labour intensive. A person has to investigate the car to approve or deny a claim, and so we aim to make the alleviate this cumbersome process smooth and easy for the policy holders. ## What it does Quick Quote is a proof-of-concept tool for visually eval...
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## Inspiration This year's theme was nostalgia, and in an urban environment like Toronto, I often find myself missing the greenspace I grew up with. ## What it does I Need To Touch Grass allows users to quickly and easily find various natural areas near them, as well as pictures and directions. ## How I built it I...
## Inspiration Because of the current quarantine, many people are discovering new passions and hobbies. We wanted to make an app that would help beginner gardeners to arrange a virtual garden. ## What it does Gardener lets the user arrange plants on a grid of soil. When the user searches for plants, they can also se...
## Inspiration With COVID-19 forcing many public spaces and recreational facilities to close, people have been spending time outdoors more than ever. It can be boring, though, to visit the same places in your neighbourhood all the time. We created Explore MyCity to generate trails and paths for London, Ontario locals ...
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## Inspiration One of our team members' grandfathers went blind after slipping and hitting his spinal cord, going from a completely independent individual to reliant on others for everything. The lack of options was upsetting, how could a man who was so independent be so severely limited by a small accident. There is ...
## Inspiration In the United States, every 11 seconds, a senior is treated in the emergency room for a fall. Every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall, directly or indirectly. Deteriorating balance is one of the direct causes of falling in seniors. This epidemic will only increase, as the senior population wil...
# Summary Echo is an intelligent, environment-aware smart cane that acts as assistive tech for the visually or mentally impaired. --- ## Overview Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. In fact, 1 in 10 people of age 65 and older has Alzheimer's or dementia. Often, those afflicted will have trouble re...
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## Inspiration We were heavily focused on the machine learning aspect and realized that we lacked any datasets which could be used to train a model. So we tried to figure out what kind of activity which might impact insurance rates that we could also collect data for right from the equipment which we had. ## What it ...
## Inspiration Sign language is already difficult to learn; adding on the difficulty of learning movements from static online pictures makes it next to impossible to do without help. We came up with an elegant robotic solution to remedy this problem. ## What it does Handy Signbot is a tool that translates voice to s...
## Inspiration We are inspired by how Machine Learning can streamline a lot of our lives and minimize possible errors which occurs. In the healthcare and financial field, one of the issues which happens the most in the Insurance field is how to best evaluate a quote for the consumer. Therefore, upon seeing the challen...
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## Presentation + Award See the presentation and awards ceremony here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8-WVqPKKo&t=351s&ab_channel=JoshuaQin> ## Inspiration Back when we first came to the Yale campus, we were stunned by the architecture and the public works of art. One monument in particular stood out to us - the...
## Inspiration The memory palace, also known as the method of loci, is a technique used to memorize large amounts of information, such as long grocery lists or vocabulary words. First, think of a familiar place in your life. Second, imagine the sequence of objects from the list along a path leading around your chosen ...
## Inspiration As college students, we didn't know anything, so we thought about how we can change that. One way was by being smarter about the way we take care of our unused items. We all felt that our unused items could be used in better ways through sharing with other students on campus. All of us shared our items ...
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## Inspiration Bubble tea is no longer a choice between a milk tea or fruit tea. Thousands of combinations exist, from the type of tea, toppings and the type of milk. Overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choices we have for bubble tea in Toronto, we felt inspired to create an application that could simplify our search f...
# FNAF VR: Study or Get Scared! 🎮📚👻 ## 🎉 Inspiration I LOVE *Five Nights at Freddy's* (FNAF)! 😍 But... sometimes I *really* don’t feel like studying 😅. So why not mash them together? 🎯 Now, with *FNAF VR*, you can play and study at the same time! Studying has never been this thrilling—answer questions or get s...
## Inspiration I like web design, I like 90's web design, and I like 90's tech. So it all came together very naturally. ## What it does nineties.tech is a love letter to the silly, chunky, and experimental technology of the 90s. There's a Brian Eno quote about how we end up cherishing the annoyances of "outdated" te...
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## Inspiration 1 in 2 Canadians will personally experience a mental health issue by age 40, with minority communities at a greater risk. As the mental health epidemic surges and support at its capacity, we sought to build something to connect trained volunteer companions with people in distress in several ways for con...
## Inspiration Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u...
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## Inspiration Our project is driven by a clear purpose: to make a real, positive difference in society using technology, especially by fixing how the government works. We're excited about using statistical and reinforcement learning to tackle big issues like the tax gap and to build tools that agencies like the IRS a...
We got too tired of watching out government taking commands from special interest groups and corrupt corporations and decided to do something about it. Our platform enables the citizens of the United States, especially our generation, to have our government actually act upon the decisions of its constitutions. We are ...
## Inspiration Love is in the air. PennApps is not just about coding, it’s also about having fun hacking! Meeting new friends! Great food! PING PONG <3! ## What it does When you navigate to any browser it will remind you about how great PennApps was!
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## Inspiration Transforming 2D images to 3D affects fields that are worth hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars. 3D environments are significant due to several applications and here are some reasons why this conversion is crucial: Enhanced Visualization and Immersion: Depth Perception: 3D models provide a clearer understand...
## Inspiration We discussed on how time consuming it took to write up cover letters for each individual company/organization we applied to. One of us thought of the idea for an AI to auto generate a cover letter. How much time would that save us? ## What it does The program asks the user to input general information...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the idea that the **Metaverse is inevitable** and will impact **every aspect** of society. The Metaverse has recently gained lots of traction with **tech giants** like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft investing into it. Furthermore, the pandemic has **shifted our real-world e...
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## Inspiration Our app idea brewed from a common shared stressor of networking challenges. Recognizing the lack of available mentorship and struggle to form connections effortlessly, we envisioned a platform that seamlessly paired mentors and students to foster meaningful connections. ## What it does mocha mentor is...
## Inspiration Relationships between mentees and mentors are very important for career success. People want to connect with others in a professional manner to give and receive career advice. While many professional mentoring relationships form naturally, it can be particularly difficult for people in minority groups, ...
## Inspiration Everyone in this team has previously been to post-secondary and noticed that their large group of friends have been slowly dwindling since graduation, especially after COVID. It's already well known that once you leave school it's a lot harder to make friends, so we got this idea to make FriendFinder to...
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## Inspiration We all had our own contributions to the creation of our idea; An educational game seemed to suit all of our interests best, allowing us to explore cybersecurity and ethical issues in the future of AI while marvelling at the innovative new-comings of machine learning. In addition, most of us could learn ...
## Inspiration As teammates, we're doing off-season internships, and one thing we agreed on is that it's **sooooo** tough to both break the ice and find engaging activities during team meetings. And what we got out of that was......**27 hours of planning**, \*\*96 different ideas from ChatGPT (*yeah, even this failed...
## Inspiration Our game stems from the current global pandemic we are grappling with and the importance of getting vaccinated. As many of our loved ones are getting sick, we believe it is important to stress the effectiveness of vaccines and staying protected from Covid in a fun and engaging game. ## What it does An...
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# Catch! (Around the World) ## Our Inspiration Catch has to be one of our most favourite childhood games. Something about just throwing and receiving a ball does wonders for your serotonin. Since all of our team members have relatives throughout the entire world, we thought it'd be nice to play catch with those relat...
## Inspiration Many of us had class sessions in which the teacher pulled out whiteboards or chalkboards and used them as a tool for teaching. These made classes very interactive and engaging. With the switch to virtual teaching, class interactivity has been harder. Usually a teacher just shares their screen and talks,...
## Inspiration Our team really considered the theme of **Connectivity**, and what it feels like to be connected. That got us to thinking about games we used to be able to play that involved contact such as Tag, Assassin, etc. We decided to see if we could create an **upgraded** spin on these games that would be timele...
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## Summary Our AI-integrated website is a service that runs in a user’s background and sends a notification for the user to consider a break if their emotions reach over a certain threshold for an amount of time. We do this by utilizing OpenCV and Mediapipe to detect faces and capture image data which is then sent off...
## Inspiration Have you ever walked up to a recycling can and wondered if you can recycle your trash. With Trash MIT, we take a picture of your item and run it through our database to check if it's recyclable. ## What it does Trash MIT identifies what an object is using a webcam and checks it against our list of ite...
## Inspiration University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,...
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## Inspiration I volunteering with Women in Computer Science ## What it does It is a website that connects minority groups in tech ## How I built it With Wix ## Challenges I ran into Finding new bundle features to use on the website to engage different groups ## Accomplishments that I'm proud of It is visually appe...
## Inspiration Helping students to organise their school work at home to aid online education ## What it does A portal wherein student can keep track of his/her/their school works and connect with classmates and school teachers and administrators. ## How we built it Using web development technologies ## Challenge...
## Inspiration Queriamos hacer una pagina interactiva la cual llamara la atencion de las personas jovenes de esta manera logrando mantenerlos durante mucho tiempo siendo leales a la familia de marcas Qualtias ## What it does Lo que hace es ## How we built it ## Challenges we ran into Al no tener un experiencia pr...
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## Inspiration I wanted to make something that let me explore everything you need to do at a hackathon. ## What it does Currently, the web app stores and encrypts passwords onto a database hosted by cockroachDB with the "sign up" form. The web app also allows you to retrieve and decrypt your password with the "fetch...
# 🎉 CoffeeStarter: Your Personal Networking Agent 🚀 Names: Sutharsika Kumar, Aarav Jindal, Tanush Changani & Pranjay Kumar Welcome to **CoffeeStarter**, a cutting-edge tool designed to revolutionize personal networking by connecting you with alumni from your school's network effortlessly. Perfect for hackathons and...
# About Our Project ## Inspiration: Since forming our group, we identified early that the majority of our team's strengths were in back-end development. David told us about his interest in cybersecurity and shared some interesting resources regarding it, from there we had an idea, we just had to figure out what we co...
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## Inspiration We all come from coding backgrounds, where typing speed is a valued asset. Normal typing tests, such as 10fastfingers or monkeytype are great, but we thought they were a little boring and not motivating enough. ## What it does Complete words based on the level of difficulty. ## How we built it The p...
## Flagtrip: travel in multiplayer Vacation planning, especially with friends, is unnecessarily complex. Travel is usually a social experience, but most software nowadays only focuses on individual and personal plans. However, Flagtrip offers a real-time collaborative solution, allowing friends to easily pin down new...
## Inspiration Our team was inspired by the AllHealth track presented at the opening ceremony and the challenge of enhancing patient care in the least intrusive way possible. We considered the technologies people use daily and landed on typing, something everyone does across devices—whether sending texts, searching on...
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## Inspiration One of our team members was in the evacuation warning zone for the raging California fires in the Bay Area just a few weeks ago. Part of their family's preparation for this disaster included the tiresome, tedious, time-sensitive process of listing every item in their house for insurance claims in the ev...
## Inspiration Two of our teammates have personal experiences with wildfires: one who has lived all her life in California, and one who was exposed to a fire in his uncle's backyard in the same state. We found the recent wildfires especially troubling and thus decided to focus our efforts on doing what we could with t...
## Inspiration Traveling can often be stressful, with countless variables to consider such as budget, destinations, activities, and personal interests. We aimed to create an app that simplifies travel planning, making it more enjoyable and personalized. Marco.ai was inspired by the need for a comprehensive travel comp...
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## Inspiration The issue of waste management is something that many people view as trivial yet is one of the fundamental factors that will decide the liveability of the world. Yet even in Canada, a developed country, only 9% of plastics are recycled, meaning that the equivalent of 24 CN towers of recyclable plastic en...
## Inspiration: Our journey began with a simple, yet profound realization: sorting waste is confusing! We were motivated by the challenge many face in distinguishing recyclables from garbage, and we saw an opportunity to leverage technology to make a real environmental impact. We aimed to simplify recycling, making it...
## Inspiration Waste Management: Despite having bins with specific labels, people often put waste into wrong bins which lead to unnecessary plastic/recyclables in landfills. ## What it does Uses Raspberry Pi, Google vision API and our custom classifier to categorize waste and automatically sorts and puts them into r...
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## Inspiration We were inspired to create a caffeine tracker because it's a tool that's directly relevant to our lives – we are both avid coffee drinkers, and wanted a better way to keep tabs on our caffeine intake. This project allowed us to merge our love for coffee with a desire to learn about web app development. ...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create HaBits because we wanted to make health tracking both engaging and personalized. With so many fitness and health apps available, we noticed a gap in how they engage users with their data and motivate healthy habits in a way that fosters community. By integrating data from the ...
## Inspiration Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo...
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## Inspiration Lecture halls aren't the greatest way to meet new friends, and it shows. Loneliness is a huge issue in universities; in 2017, 63.1% of nearly 48,000 college students indicated that they had felt “very lonely” in the previous 12 months [1]. College students often struggle to make friends outside of dorm...
## Inspiration As our world becomes more digitalized and interactions become a more permanent, our team noticed a rise in online anxiety stemming from an innate fear of being judged or making a mistake. In Elizabeth Armstrong's book *Paying for the Party* , Armstrong mentions the negative impacts of being unique at a ...
## Inspiration It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ...
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## Inspiration As young college students who want to make sustainable life choices but are too bogged down by schoolwork to find time to do so, we were looking for a simple service that could "green-ify" our eating choices. Because nearly 1/3 of greenhouse gas emissions come from food production, eating sustainably ha...
## Inspiration Don't get us wrong, there's many great things about our country, the West, and principles that guide our lives. But we set out on this project because we noticed an unfairness in the world. We noticed that things that bring Goodness in the world, the actions that so many of us undertake on a daily basis...
## Inspiration 🌱 Climate change is affecting every region on earth. The changes are widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The UN states that we are at a pivotal moment and the urgency to protect our Earth is at an all-time high. We wanted to harness the power of social media for a greater purpose: promoting sustainabi...
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## Inspiration HealthCord is online Personal Health Record web application that you can use to maintain, manage and keep track of information from your medical history, doctor visits, tests, ailments and procedures. You can also document your life outside the doctor's office and your health priorities, such as trackin...
## Inspiration I wrote my college application essays on Boston Dynamics. When I saw Spot, I was a little kid again with a bright mind and an innocent smile. However, I didn't know what I wanted to build exactly, until I noticed the infinite supply of QR Codes around me! ## What it does Spot utilizes a graph search a...
## Inspiration We've all had to fill out paperwork going to a new doctor before: it's a pain, and it's information we've already written down for other doctors a million times before. Our health information ends up all over the place, not only making it difficult for us, but making it difficult for researchers to find...
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## Inspiration While caught in the the excitement of coming up with project ideas, we found ourselves forgetting to follow up on action items brought up in the discussion. We felt that it would come in handy to have our own virtual meeting assistant to keep track of our ideas. We moved on to integrate features like au...
## Inspiration To any financial institution, the most valuable asset to increase revenue, remain competitive and drive innovation, is aggregated **market** and **client** **data**. However, a lot of data and information is left behind due to lack of *structure*. So we asked ourselves, *what is a source of unstructure...
## Inspiration I got the inspiration from the Mirum challenge, which was to be able to recognize emotion in speech and text. ## What it does It records speech from people for a set time, separating individual transcripts based on small pauses in between each person talking. It then transcribes this to a JSON string ...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration stemmed from the desire to create a platform where individuals could engage in meaningful debates, sharpening their communication skills while exploring diverse topics tailored towards their interests while also having fun. ## What it does Debate Me offers a dynamic space for users to ...
## Inspiration We believe that most LLMs are too agreeable, which is nice but not incredibly conducive to all use cases. That's where ArguMentor steps in - our application actively debates with you over your ideas to highlight flaws and weaknesses in your argument. ## What it does Our application provides users with...
# Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**. ## Inspiration The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat...
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## [Visit studynotes](https://www.studynotes.space) ## Motivation With the recent shift to remote learning, students around the world are faced with a common problem: without friends and faculty around, it becomes hard to find the motivation to study. **studynotes** is a web app that helps to promote a social aspect ...
## Inspiration As music lovers, we often search music pieces online for a variety of purposes; however, one may not always remember the piece name despite being able to hum the tune or fundamental chord of a song. This inspired us to create Me♪o (pronounced “melo” in melody), a web app that acts as a search engine spe...
## Inspiration In large lectures, students often have difficulty making friends and forming study groups due to the social anxieties attached to reaching out for help. Collaboration reinforces and heightens learning, so we sought to encourage students to work together and learn from each other. ## What it does Study...
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SmartArm is our submission to UofTHacks 2018. SmartArm uses Microsoft Cognitive Services, namely the Computer Vision API and Text to Speech API. We designed and rapid prototyped a prosthetic hand model, and embedded a Raspberry PI modular camera on to it. There are servo motors attached to each digit of the hand, powe...
## Inspiration We were fascinated by the tech of the LeapMotion, and wanted to find a real-world example for the technology, that could positively help the disabled ## What it does Our system is designed to be a portable sign language translator. Our wearable device has a leap motion device embedded into with a rasp...
## Inspiration In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue. ## What it does When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ...
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# 🎉 CoffeeStarter: Your Personal Networking Agent 🚀 Names: Sutharsika Kumar, Aarav Jindal, Tanush Changani & Pranjay Kumar Welcome to **CoffeeStarter**, a cutting-edge tool designed to revolutionize personal networking by connecting you with alumni from your school's network effortlessly. Perfect for hackathons and...
## Inspiration Social interaction with peers is harder than ever in our world today where everything is online. We wanted to create a setting that will mimic organic encounters the same way as if they would occur in real life -- in the very same places that you’re familiar with. ## What it does Traverse a map of you...
## Inspiration This year, all the members in our team entered the first year of post-secondary and attended our various orientation event. We all realized that during orientation, we talked to many people but really only carried on a couple of friendships or acquaintances. As such, we decided to make an app so that pe...
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## Inspiration We all read <https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/> and trade stocks, so last year we made the prized YoloOnFannieMae which recommends stocks based on the subreddit. This year, we wanted to utilize our award-winning API and actually build a project that buys the recommended stocks on a simulated trad...
## Inspiration Our project was inspired by the movie recommendation system algorithms used by companies like Netflix to recommend content to their users. Following along on this, our project uses a similar algorithm to recommend investment options to individuals based on their profiles. ## What Finvest Advisor does ...
## Inspiration We came to this Treehacks wanting to contribute our efforts towards health care. After checking out and working with some of the fascinating technologies we had available to us, we realized that the Magic Leap AR device would be perfect for developing a hack to help the visually impaired. ## What it do...
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## Inspiration Answer: Our increasingly complex lives demand more than just a reminder tool; they need an understanding partner. We witnessed the strain of juggling health, work, academic responsibilities, and social lives. This inspired the creation of Edith – a comprehensive, intuitive, and health-conscious planner....
# We'd love if you read through this in its entirety, but we suggest reading "What it does" if you're limited on time ## The Boring Stuff (Intro) * Christina Zhao - 1st-time hacker - aka "Is cucumber a fruit" * Peng Lu - 2nd-time hacker - aka "Why is this not working!!" x 30 * Matthew Yang - ML specialist - aka "What...
## Inspiration Our biggest inspiration came from our grandparents, who often felt lonely and struggled to find help. Specifically, one of us have a grandpa with dementia. He lives alone and finds it hard to receive help since most of his relatives live far away and he has reduced motor skills. Knowing this, we were de...
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# Inspiration Many cities in the United States are still severely behind on implementing infrastructure improvements to meet ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessibility standards. Though 1 in 7 people in the US have a mobility-related disability, research has found that 65% of curb ramps and 48% of sidewalks a...
## Inspiration One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss. Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe...
## Inspiration Food is tastier when it's in season. It's also better for the environment, so we decided to promote seasonal foods to have a positive impact on both our taste buds and the planet! ## What it does When you navigate to a recipe webpage, you can use our chrome extension to view which recipe ingredients a...
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## Inspiration With a prior interest in crypto and defi, we were attracted to Uniswap V3's simple yet brilliant automated market maker. The white papers were tantalizing and we had several eureka moments when pouring over them. However, we realized that the concepts were beyond the reach of most casual users who would...
## What it does Think "virtual vision stick on steroids"! It is a wearable device that AUDIBLY provides visually impaired people with information on the objects in front of them as well as their proximity. ## How we built it We used computer vision from Python and OpenCV to recognize objects such as "chair" and "per...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project was the technological and communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients, restricted access to both one’s own health data and physicians, misdiagnosis due to lack of historical information, as well as rising demand in distance-healthcare due to the lack ...
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## Inspiration I got this idea because of the current hurricane Milton causing devastation across Florida. The inspiration behind *Autonomous AI Society* stems from the need for faster, more efficient, and autonomous systems that can make critical decisions during disaster situations. With multiple sponsors like Fetch...
## Inspiration We all look forward to being home. The familiarity of snuggling up in our comfortable beds and the feeling of our own shower pressure is what we desire - even after a luxurious vacation. But when faced with the cold and dark of an empty house, the word "home" almost doesn't fit. Haven aims to make the e...
We really like raccoons, so we decided to make a Discord bot that would help us live our dreams of becoming a raccoon.
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## Virality Pro: 95% reduced content production costs, 2.5x rate of going viral, 4 high ticket clients We’re already helping companies go viral on instagram & TikTok, slash the need for large ad spend, and propel unparalleled growth at a 20x lower price. ## The problem: growing a company is **HARD and EXPENSIVE** He...
## Inspiration The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we go about everyday errands and trips. Along with needing to plan around wait times, distance, and reviews for a location we may want to visit, we now also need to consider how many other people will be there and whether its even a safe establishment to visit. ...
## Inspiration 💡 Online personal branding is a daunting science for many beginner content creators. Thankfully, existing media trends tell us how to make simple videos go viral. ## What it does 🧑‍💻 The user simply uploads a raw video and selects existing videos as inspiration. Then the app outputs an AI-edited vi...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for this project came from my passion for decentralized technology. One particular niche of decentralization I am particularly fond of is NFT's and how they can become a great income stream for artists. With the theme of the hackathon being exploration and showing a picture of a rocket ...
## Inspiration There are 1.1 billion people without Official Identity (ID). Without this proof of identity, they can't get access to basic financial and medical services, and often face many human rights offences, due the lack of accountability. The concept of a Digital Identity is extremely powerful. In Estonia, for...
## 🧠 Inspiration Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital blockchain-linked assets that are completely unique and not interchangeable with any other asset. The market for NFTs has tripled in 2020, with the total value of transactions increasing by 299% year on year to more than $250m\*. Because they are unique and impo...
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## Inspiration During events, we usually take some of our time to go through all the parking floors to find a parking spot. Not knowing where is the available spot, waste a lot of time specially for big city and important events. We wanted to solve parking traffic that is caused by people circling in parking, to find...
## 💡Inspiration The inspiration for ErgoAI came from firsthand experiences working part-time jobs in warehouses, factories, and supermarkets. Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSDs) injuries lead to significant insurance costs, amounting to $180 billion globally and $90 billion in the US alone. Traditional ergonomic assessme...
## Inspiration We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students ## What it does The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid. #...
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## Inspiration With elections right around the corner, many young adults are voting for the first time, and may not be equipped with knowledge of the law and current domestic events. We believe that this is a major problem with our nation, and we seek to use open source government data to provide day to day citizens w...
## Inspiration There is a lack of awareness surrounding decisions that are made on a day-to-day basis in Ontario's parliament by our provincial representatives; decisions which can affect hundreds of thousands of Ontarians. We believe that the backbone of a strong democracy is open and frequent communication between ...
We got too tired of watching out government taking commands from special interest groups and corrupt corporations and decided to do something about it. Our platform enables the citizens of the United States, especially our generation, to have our government actually act upon the decisions of its constitutions. We are ...
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# [Try it out!](https://ipfe.elguindi.xyz) ## Inspiration Intrigued by the ability to access a large amount of data on the distributed network, we set out to classify files by similarity for interesting exploration. While there were powerful search tools like Google to access information on the web, we were unsure ho...
## Inspiration We always want to create a resume that will impress employers. The problem is fitting your resume to their expectations. How well or far off are you from the goalpost? We came up with the idea of ResumeReviser because it could help people looking or not looking for employment gauge how well their resume...
## Inspiration Both chronic pain disorders and opioid misuse are on the rise, and the two are even more related than you might think -- over 60% of people who misused prescription opioids did so for the purpose of pain relief. Despite the adoption of PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) in 49 states, the US s...
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## Inspiration Today’s technological advances have resulted in many consumers having to increasingly rely on Web-based banking and financial systems. Consumers often overlooked as we make this transition include the visually impaired and/or the less tech-savvy populations (e.g. elderly). It is critical that we guarant...
## Inspiration and What it does We often go out with a lot of amazing friends for trips, restaurants, tourism, weekend expedition and what not. Every encounter has an associated messenger groupchat. We want a way to split money which is better than to discuss on the groupchat, ask people their public key/usernames and...
## Inspiration It’s Friday afternoon, and as you return from your final class of the day cutting through the trailing winds of the Bay, you suddenly remember the Saturday trek you had planned with your friends. Equipment-less and desperate you race down to a nearby sports store and fish out $$$, not realising that the...
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## Inspiration We took inspiration from our experience of how education can be hard. Studies conducted by EdX show that classes that teach quantitative subjects like Mathematics and Physics tend to receive lower ratings from students in terms of engagement and educational capacity than their qualitative counterparts. ...
## Inspiration In a world in which we all have the ability to put on a VR headset and see places we've never seen, search for questions in the back of our mind on Google and see knowledge we have never seen before, and send and receive photos we've never seen before, we wanted to provide a way for the visually impaire...
## Inspiration We found that even there are so many resources to learn to code, but all of them fall into one of two categories: they are either in a generic course and grade structure, or are oversimplified to fit a high-level mould. We thought the ideal learning environment would be an interactive experience where p...
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*At the beginning of this competition, we were in quite a pickle But then we stumbled upon an idea that was quite the pinnacle of green technology, that costs hardly a dime, or even a nickel, solving the problematical, with the mathematical, all with only your own vehicle, introducing: **Greenicle*** ## Inspirat...
## Inspiration The other day when we were taking the train to get from New Jersey to New York City we started to talk about how much energy we are saving by taking the train rather than driving, and slowly we realized that a lot of people always default to driving as their only mode of transit. We realized that becaus...
# muse4muse **Control a Sphero ball with your mind.** Muse will measure your brain waves. Depending on the magnitude of the wave, the color of the Sphero will change color! Alpha -> Green, Beta -> Blue, Delta -> Red, Theta ->Yellow, Gamma ->White When the player keeps calm, increasing the Alpha wave, the Sphero ball...
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## Inspiration We see technology progressing rapidly in cool fields like virtual reality, social media and artificial intelligence but often neglect those who really need tech to make a difference in their lives. SignFree aims to bridge the gap between the impaired and the general public by making it easier for every...
## What Does "Catiator" Mean? **Cat·i·a·tor** (*noun*): Cat + Gladiator! In other words, a cat wearing a gladiator helmet 🐱 ## What It Does *Catiator* is an educational VR game that lets players battle gladiator cats by learning and practicing American Sign Language. Using finger tracking, players gesture correspon...
## Inspiration The ability to easily communicate with others is something that most of take for granted in our everyday life. However, for the millions of hearing impaired and deaf people all around the world, communicating their wants and needs is a battle they have to go through every day. The desire to make the wor...
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## Inspiration ## What it does PhyloForest helps researchers and educators by improving how we see phylogenetic trees. Strong, useful data visualization is key to new discoveries and patterns. Thanks to our product, users have a greater ability to perceive depth of trees by communicating widths rather than lengths. T...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind LeafHack stems from a shared passion for sustainability and a desire to empower individuals to take control of their food sources. Witnessing the rising grocery costs and the environmental impact of conventional agriculture, we were motivated to create a solution that not only add...
## Introduction Sleep is important, and we all know it. There are many existing products on the market that can assist in your sleep with diverse capabilities and form factors, but they all come at a compromise - smartwatch sleep tracking is bulky and uncomfortable, smart rings serve only as passive trackers, and smar...
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## Overview People today are as connected as they've ever been, but there are still obstacles in communication, particularly for people who are deaf/mute and can not communicate by speaking. Our app allows bi-directional communication between people who use sign language and those who speak. You can use your device's...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a webapp that will help people learn American Sign Language. ## What it does SignLingo starts by giving the user a phrase to sign. Using the user's webcam, gets the input and decides if the user signed the phrase correctly. If the user signed it correctly, goes on to the next phras...
## Inspiration With the interests and passions to learn sign language, we unfortunately found that resources for American Sign Language (ASL) were fairly limited and restricted. So, we made a "Google Translate" for ASL. Of course, anyone can communicate without ASLTranslate by simply pulling out a phone or a piece of...
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## Inspiration So many people around the world, including those dear to us, suffer from mental health issues such as depression. Here in Berkeley, for example, the resources put aside to combat these problems are constrained. Journaling is one method commonly employed to fight mental issues; it evokes mindfulness and ...
## Inspiration (<http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mr_robot.jpg>) If you watch Mr. Robot, then you know that the main character, Elliot, deals with some pretty serious mental health issues. One of his therapeutic techniques is to write his thoughts on a private journal. They're great... they g...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a convenient, modernized journaling application with methods and components that are backed by science. Our spin on the readily available journal logging application is our take on the idea of awareness itself. What does it mean to be aware? What form or shape can mental health aware...
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## What it does flarg.io is an Augmented Reality platform that allows you to play games and physical activities with your friends from across the world. The relative positions of each person will be recorded and displayed on a single augmented reality plane, so that you can interact with your friends as if they were i...
## Inspiration We got together a team passionate about social impact, and all the ideas we had kept going back to loneliness and isolation. We have all been in high pressure environments where mental health was not prioritized and we wanted to find a supportive and unobtrusive solution. After sharing some personal sto...
## Inspiration We wanted to build the most portable and accessible device for augmented reality. ## What it does This application uses location services to detect where you are located and if you are in proximity to one of the landmark features based on a predefined set of coordinates. Then a 3d notification message...
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## 🌟 Inspiration The increasing demand for therapists puts us in long queues and financial burden. If only there was an alternative that was cheap, convenient and proactive in promoting good mental health. The rise of AI has opened so many gateways to produce life-changing technology in countless industries. BeHappy ...
## Inspiration In today's world, the mental health crisis is on the rise, and finding a therapist has become increasingly difficult due to factors like the economy, accessibility, and finding the right fit. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to overcome their mental health challenges and have meaningful c...
## Inspiration When travelling in a new place, it is often the case that one doesn't have an adequate amount of mobile data to search for information they need. ## What it does Mr.Worldwide allows the user to send queries and receive responses regarding the weather, directions, news and translations in the form of s...
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## Inspiration It’'s pretty common that you will come back from a grocery trip, put away all the food you bought in your fridge and pantry, and forget about it. Even if you read the expiration date while buying a carton of milk, chances are that a decent portion of your food will expire. After that you’ll throw away f...
## Inspiration As college students more accustomed to having meals prepared by someone else than doing so ourselves, we are not the best at keeping track of ingredients’ expiration dates. As a consequence, money is wasted and food waste is produced, thereby discounting the financially advantageous aspect of cooking an...
We wanted to revolutionize the IOS navigation system, so when integrated into our life it would become a simple easy to use app.We created a way for the navigation system to give an ease of mind to as many people as possible.For example three people trying to meet up. When looking for a place to meet, this app would pi...
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[Play the game.](https://victorzshi.github.io/threeway-freeway/) [Check out the GitHub repo.](https://github.com/victorzshi/threeway-freeway) ## Inspiration The Nintendo Switch, crazy cooperation in general. ## What it does Threeway Freeway pits three friends (or strangers!) in a constantly changing feat of peril,...
## Inspiration It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ...
## Inspiration At work, we use a tele-presence robot call the BEAM. It is a very cool piece of technology that works to enable more personal remote meetings between people, and increase the amount of "presence" a person may have remotely. However, upon checking the cost of such technology, the 2.5k USD to 15k+ USD pri...
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Currently, about 600,000 people in the United States have some form of hearing impairment. Through personal experiences, we understand the guidance necessary to communicate with a person through ASL. Our software eliminates this and promotes a more connected community - one with a lower barrier entry for sign language ...
## Inspiration In today's world, technology has made it possible for people from various backgrounds and cultures to interact and understand each other through various cross-cultural and cross-linguistic platforms. Spoken language is a much smaller barrier than it was a few decades ago. But there still remains a commu...
## Inspiration Imagine living in a foreign country. Think about it. How would you feel if you lived in an area where the language, customs, and culture weren't native to you? You'd probably go through each day with reluctance and uncertainty. You'd want to say what's appropriate, not something that would be viewed as ...
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## Inspiration We were inspired because many sites are often attacked by password cracking distributed attacks. We wanted to provide a solution to help website owners surveille the overall risk level of incoming requests. ## What it does The project is a solution for website owners to secure their site from maliciou...
## Problem Statement Spoken language barriers do more than obstruct communication; they hinder the deep, emotional connections that bind us and limit opportunities in our increasingly global society. We've heard countless stories of individuals struggling to communicate with loved ones or feeling isolated in new envir...
## Inspiration The vicarious experiences of friends, and some of our own, immediately made clear the potential benefit to public safety the City of London’s dataset provides. We felt inspired to use our skills to make more accessible, this data, to improve confidence for those travelling alone at night. ## What it do...
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## Inspiration During the pandemic, we noticed that uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 had a negative effect on people's mental health. We wanted to create a project that could help people restore their lives to how they were before the pandemic. Inspired by the capabilities of other Discord bots, we looked to Discord, ...
## Inspiration In 2021, the [United Nations](https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14445.doc.htm) said that climate change is the biggest threat to our world as we know it. We as people have the power to shape the world and try to fight this. Toronto is a city with vibrant culture, traditions, and people. The city is a h...
## Inspiration Hungry college students ## What it does RecipeBoy returns a list of recipes based on the ingredients you give him. You can also send him your recommended recipes and get a list of recommendations! ## How we built it Using Cisco Spark's API, Javascript, Node.js, and Food2Food API. ## Challenges we r...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the desire to address the issue of food waste and to help those in need. We decided to create an online platform that connects people with surplus food to those who need to address the problem of food insecurity and food waste, which is a significant environmental and economic ...
Team channel #43 Team discord users - Sarim Zia #0673, Elly #2476, (ASK), rusticolus #4817, Names - Vamiq, Elly, Sarim, Shahbaaz ## Inspiration When brainstorming an idea, we concentrated on problems that affected a large population and that mattered to us. Topics such as homelessness, food waste and a clean environm...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
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## Inspiration In a world where people often skim and hate reading long documents. We wanted to solve the problem of people signing the documents, business contracts, etc in a hurry. We want to create an error proof and efficient process of contract signing. ## What it does Our product summarizes the content of docu...
## Inspiration With the excitement of blockchain and the ever growing concerns regarding privacy, we wanted to disrupt one of the largest technology standards yet: Email. Email accounts are mostly centralized and contain highly valuable data, making one small breach, or corrupt act can serious jeopardize millions of p...
## Inspiration The project was inspired by looking at the challenges that artists face when dealing with traditional record labels and distributors. Artists often have to give up ownership of their music, lose creative control, and receive only a small fraction of the revenue generated from streams. Record labels and ...
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## Inspiration Music has become a crucial part of people's lives, and they want customized playlists to fit their mood and surroundings. This is especially true for drivers who use music entertain themselves on their journey and to stay alert. Based off of personal experience and feedback from our peers, we realized t...
## Inspiration Music is a universal language, and we recognized Spotify wrapped to be one of the most anticipated times of the year. Realizing that people have an interest in learning about their own music taste, we created ***verses*** to not only allow people to quiz themselves on their musical interests, but also q...
## Inspiration Our idea was inspired by our group's shared interest in musical composition, as well as our interests in AI models and their capabilites. The concept that inspired our project was: "*What if life had a soundtrack?*" ## What it does AutOST generates and produces a constant stream of original live music...
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# 🤖🖌️ [VizArt Computer Vision Drawing Platform](https://vizart.tech) Create and share your artwork with the world using VizArt - a simple yet powerful air drawing platform. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65676392/215330789-e38f2b41-1d7b-45b9-bb4f-09be3ffb9bf8.png) ## 💫 Inspiration > > "...
## Inspiration **Machine learning** is a powerful tool for automating tasks that are not scalable at the human level. However, when deciding on things that can critically affect people's lives, it is important that our models do not learn biases. [Check out this article about Amazon's automated recruiting tool which l...
## Inspiration With the emergence of AI generation technology such as style-gan, mid-journey, and DALL-E, our team decided to focus on a project that would explore the possibilities of such technology in a cool and interactive way. Meet DrawBot, an AI-powered image generation robot that draws whatever masterpiece you ...
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## Inspiration We originally wanted to build a large robot that could move on it's own until we realized that we could do the same thing but with multiple smaller bots, which could also make tasks more efficient with the same amount of resources. ## What it does It moves around and finds trash and marks them on a ma...
## intelliTrash **Inspiration and What it does** intelliTrash is an automated waste machine which uses vision AI to be able to determine, and sort trash into either recycling, compost, or garbage. This idea was hatched when a teammate found out that a family friend had been disposing of used diapers in recycling, afte...
## Inspiration We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin...
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## Inspiration Wanted to combine passion for Canadian wildlife, biological research and conservational efforts to make a tool that can help researchers and nature enthusiasts alike! ## What it does Provides platform for nature enthusiasts to aid in conservational efforts using just their smartphone camera. Natural.l...
## Inspiration As tech enthusiasts, we constantly faced the dilemma: ***What to wear?*** and ***Do I look on point?*** These questions resonate with many teenagers who, influenced by celebrities and peers with sharp fashion senses, may struggle with self-doubt. Moreover, staying trendy doesn't come cheap, and scouring...
## Inspiration Diseases in monoculture farms can spread easily and significantly impact food security and farmers' lives. We aim to create a solution that uses computer vision for the early detection and mitigation of these diseases. ## What it does Our project is a proof-of-concept for detecting plant diseases usin...
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## Inspiration Rock ## What it does RoCK ## How we built it RocK ## Challenges we ran into rOcK ## Accomplishments that we're proud of RoCk ## What we learned rOck ## What's next for Vivian rocks
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## Inspiration A deep and unreasonable love of xylophones ## What it does An air xylophone right in your browser! Play such classic songs as twinkle twinkle little star, ba ba rainbow sheep and the alphabet song or come up with the next club banger in free play. We also added an air guitar mode where you can play a...
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## Inspiration There is a big problem with the way we find friends. Before the age of the internet, location was a big constraint for meeting new friends, but now we are more globally connected than ever, yet our friends still seem to be local. By do we depend on this serendipitous approach? Just think about it, imagi...
## Inspiration Everyone in this team has previously been to post-secondary and noticed that their large group of friends have been slowly dwindling since graduation, especially after COVID. It's already well known that once you leave school it's a lot harder to make friends, so we got this idea to make FriendFinder to...
## Inspiration Imagine a world where your best friend is standing in front of you, but you can't see them. Or you go to read a menu, but you are not able to because the restaurant does not have specialized brail menus. For millions of visually impaired people around the world, those are not hypotheticals, they are fac...
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## Inspiration In 2010, when Haiti was rocked by an earthquake that killed over 150,000 people, aid workers manned SMS help lines where victims could reach out for help. Even with the international humanitarian effort, there was not enough manpower to effectively handle the volume of communication. We set out to fix t...
## Inspiration Imagine: A major earthquake hits. Thousands call 911 simultaneously. In the call center, a handful of operators face an impossible task. Every line is ringing. Every second counts. There aren't enough people to answer every call. This isn't just hypothetical. It's a real risk in today's emergency servic...
## Inspiration The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes have created a pressing need for reliable, real-time information. Families, NGOs, emergency first responders, and government agencies often struggle to access trustworthy updates quickly, leading to dela...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for this came from grandparents that were forced to try lots of different types of hearing aids. The hearing aids all came from the same three manufacturers, which had a monopoly on all the options and pricing. The profit made on these hearing aids is almost scandalous since the price of...
## Inspiration Many visually impaired people have difficulties on a day-to-day basis reading text and other items, and other comparable technologies and software are either expensive or bulky and impractical to use. We sought to create a cheap, light and reliable system for text reading. ## What it does A wearable t...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a device that ease the life of people who have disabilities and with AR becoming mainstream it would only be proper to create it. ## What it does Our AR Headset converts speech to text and then displays it realtime on the monitor to allow the user to read what the other person is t...
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## Inspiration Everybody knows how annoying it can be to develop web applications. But this sentiment is certainly true for those who have minimal to no working experience with web development. We were inspired by the power of Cohere LLM's to transform natural language into many different forms and in our case, to gen...
## Inspiration After learning about NLP and Cohere, we were inspired to explore the capabilities it had and decided to use it for a more medical oriented field. We realized that people prefer the internet to tediously needing to call somebody and wait in long hold times so we designed an alternative to the 811 hotline...
## Inspiration Nowadays, we have been using **all** sorts of development tools for web development, from the simplest of HTML, to all sorts of high-level libraries, such as Bootstrap and React. However, what if we turned back time, and relived the *nostalgic*, good old times of programming in the 60s? A world where th...
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## Inspiration We created AR World to make AR more accessible for everyone. Through the mobile app, any static image in the real world is instantly replaced by a video. Through the web app, users can upload any image and video pair to be replaced in real-time. The end result is a world where movie posters turn into tr...
## What is 'Titans'? VR gaming shouldn't just be a lonely, single-player experience. We believe that we can elevate the VR experience by integrating multiplayer interactions. We imagined a mixed VR/AR experience where a single VR player's playing field can be manipulated by 'Titans' -- AR players who can plan out the...
## TLDR Duolingo is one of our favorite apps of all time for learning. For DeerHacks, we wanted to bring the amazing learning experience from Duolingo even more interactive by bringing it to life in VR, making it more accessible by offering it for free for all, and making it more personalized by offering courses beyon...
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## Inspiration We all felt that it is quite a difficult decision to make about choosing your career in your grade 12 year. There's not enough guidance provided to students to completely clarify which program or career choice is best for them and so students often try to search on websites like reddit or even private m...
## Being a university student during the pandemic is very difficult. Not being able to connect with peers, run study sessions with friends and experience university life can be challenging and demotivating. With no present implementation of a specific data base that allows students to meet people in their classes and b...
## Inspiration My recent job application experience with a small company opened my eyes to the hiring challenges faced by recruiters. After taking time to thoughtfully evaluate each candidate, they explained how even a single bad hire wastes significant resources for small teams. This made me realize the need for a be...
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## Inspiration We are inspired by how Machine Learning can streamline a lot of our lives and minimize possible errors which occurs. In the healthcare and financial field, one of the issues which happens the most in the Insurance field is how to best evaluate a quote for the consumer. Therefore, upon seeing the challen...
## Inspiration **💪🏼** Health insurance, everyone needs it, no one wants to pay for it. As soon-will-be adults, health insurance has been a growing concern. Since a simple ambulance ride easily costs up to thousands of dollars, not having health insurance is a terrible decision in the US. But how much are you suppose...
## Inspiration We wanted to any easy to get to know your friends without worrying about every detail! ## What it does HobbyTree allows you to organize and share memories with your friends. ## How we built it We built it from scratch using java. ## Challenges we ran into We wanted to utilize cohere's language pro...
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## Inspiration The Housing market is currently booming, yet there are many in our society who are homeless, near homeless and are in desperate need of financial assistance for housing. This issue is exacerbated for people from minority backgrounds and ethnicities, who have been discriminated against for generations wi...
## Inspiration As software engineering and computer science students we ended up having spent a lot of time looking at a screen. Inevitably we strain our eyes from the long hours. To combat this we decided to create an AI companion that helps manage your health as you spend time in front of a screen. ## What it does ...
#### PLEASE WATCH THE DEMO VIDEO IN THE HEADING OF THIS DEVPOST ## Auxilium Inspiration In many low income areas around the world, people are forced to rely on unaccredited institutions for loans because their jobs do not provide them with a formal/stable source of income. This issue is primarily prominent in India w...
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This code allows the user to take photos of animals, and the app determines whether the photos are pleasing enough for people to see the cuteness of the animals.
## Inspiration We were interested in developing a solution to automate the analysis of microscopic material images. ## What it does Our program utilizes image recognition and image processing tools such as edge detection, gradient analysis, gaussian/median/average filters, morphologies, image blending etc. to determ...
## Inspiration ## What it does You can point your phone's camera at a checkers board and it will show you all of the legal moves and mark the best one. ## How we built it We used Android studio to develop an Android app that streams camera captures to a python server that handles ## Challenges we ran into Detecti...
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## Overview AOFS is an automatic sanitization robot that navigates around spaces, detecting doorknobs using a custom trained machine-learning algorithm and sanitizing them using antibacterial agent. ## Inspiration It is known that in hospitals and other public areas, infections spread via our hands. Door handles, in...
## Motivation Our motivation was a grand piano that has sat in our project lab at SFU for the past 2 years. The piano was Richard Kwok's grandfathers friend and was being converted into a piano scroll playing piano. We had an excessive amount of piano scrolls that were acting as door stops and we wanted to hear these ...
## Inspiration The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time. ## What it does Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ...
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## Inspiration People think of education simply as the encoding of knowledge, but most people don't realize that the hard part about learning is the recall. Our focus was to use Augmented Reality to enhance recall by mapping concepts and knowledge onto spatial objects on a path–a popular recalling technique called the...
## Inspiration We get the inspiration from the idea provided by Stanley Black&Decker, which is to show users how would the product like in real place and in real size using AR technic. We choose to solve this problem because we also encounter same problem in our daily life. When we are browsing website for buying furn...
# Relive and Relearn *Step foot into a **living photo album** – a window into your memories of your time spent in Paris.* ## Inspiration Did you know that 70% of people worldwide are interested in learning a foreign language? However, the most effective learning method, immersion and practice, is often challenging f...
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## What it does flarg.io is an Augmented Reality platform that allows you to play games and physical activities with your friends from across the world. The relative positions of each person will be recorded and displayed on a single augmented reality plane, so that you can interact with your friends as if they were i...
Demo: <https://youtu.be/cTh3Q6a2OIM?t=2401> ## Inspiration Fun Mobile AR Experiences such as Pokemon Go ## What it does First, a single player hides a virtual penguin somewhere in the room. Then, the app creates hundreds of obstacles for the other players in AR. The player that finds the penguin first wins! ## How...
## Inspiration Last year, we wanted to build Augmented Reality between two people that can be played around the world. We wanted to make fantasy game that would not be seen normally today, like Pokemon. With technology like Microsoft Kinect, we can interact with User actions and animation at same time. ## What it doe...
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## Inspiration I'm taking EECS 16A this semester and one thing that always bothers me is the homework submission. I have to combine everything into one PDF to submit, but this includes handwritten, typed, and code components. I usually had to use online PDF combiners to submit everything, but this meant that I had to ...
## Inspiration The inspiration came after we participated to the Cloud Platform on board conference in Montreal ## What it does The web app takes an image that a user uploads to the site and converts it to Google Forms. It is saved in the Google Drive ## How we built it We used Node,js, Google Cloud Platform with ...
## Inspiration The other day, I heard my mom, a math tutor, tell her students "I wish you were here so I could give you some chocolate prizes!" We wanted to bring this incentive program back, even among COVID, so that students can have a more engaging learning experience. ## What it does The student will complete a ...
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## Inspiration Our team wanted to make a smart power bar device to tackle the challenge of phantom power consumption. Phantom power is the power consumed by devices when they are plugged in and idle, accounting for approximately 10% of a home’s power consumption. [1] The best solution for this so far has been for user...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a proof-of-concept for a potentially useful device that could be used commercially and at a large scale. We ultimately designed to focus on the agricultural industry as we feel that there's a lot of innovation possible in this space. ## What it does The PowerPlant uses sensors to d...
## Inspiration We love the playing the game and were disappointed in the way that there wasnt a nice web implementation of the game that we could play with each other remotely. So we fixed that. ## What it does Allows between 5 and 10 players to play Avalon over the web app. ## How we built it We made extensive us...
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## Inspiration Since the pandemic, millions of people worldwide have turned to online alternatives to replace public fitness facilities and other physical activities. At-home exercises have become widely acknowledged, but the problem is that there is no way of telling whether people are doing the exercises accurately ...
## Inspiration We wanted to get better at sports, but we don't have that much time to perfect our moves. ## What it does Compares your athletic abilities to other users by building skeletons of both people and showing you where you can improve. Uses ML to compare your form to a professional's form. # Tells you imp...
## Inspiration In today's fast-paced world, highly driven individuals often overwork themselves without regard for how it impacts their health, only experiencing the consequences *when it is too late*. **AtlasAI** aims to bring attention to these health issues at an early stage, such that our users are empowered to li...
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### [GitHub](https://github.com/rylandonohoe/DevMate) ## Inspiration As software interns these past few summers, we have continually encountered challenges learning the tools, procedures, and commands specific to the company at which we were working. Navigating proprietary commands and facing undocumented bugs have a...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the theme of exploration to better explore our communities and the events and new people that we can reach out to. ## What it does Our web app uses a map where users can drop markers with information about events, sports games, parties, bar nights etc. The goal here is to inform us...
## Inspiration it's really fucking cool that big LLMs (ChatGPT) are able to figure out on their own how to use various tools to accomplish tasks. for example, see Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>) this enables a new paradigm self-assembling software: m...
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## Inspiration Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i...
# F.A.C.E. (FACE Analytics with Comp-vision Engineering) ## Idea Using computer vision to provide business analytics on customers in brick and mortar stores ## Features * number of customers over time period * general customer demographics, such as age, and gender * ability to see quantity of returning customers * ...
## Inspiration Selin's journey was the spark that ignited the creation of our platform. Originally diving into the world of chemistry, she believed it was her calling. However, as time unfolded, she realized it wasn't the path that resonated with her true passions. This realization, while enlightening, also brought wi...
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## Inspiration I love learning random, useless facts, so why not make a game out of it?! ## What it does Series of games and challenges like tic-tac-toe, hangman and rock-paper-scissors, with the end result of "earning a fun fact". One does not simply learn a new fun fact... you earn it. ## How I built it Repl.it ...
## Inspiration Winter Quarter is a rough quarter for every student at Stanford. Skies are gray, and rain drops every day. Even if we feel blue, there might not be someone that we could talk to. Duck Syndrom is real. We first wanted to concentrate on Mental Health. However, because it might be a little dangerous if pe...
## Inspiration The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi...
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## Inspiration We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m...
## Inspiration We all deal with nostalgia. Sometimes we miss our loved ones or places we visited and look back at our pictures. But what if we could revolutionize the way memories are shown? What if we said you can relive your memories and mean it literally? ## What it does retro.act takes in a user prompt such as "...
## Inspiration When travelling in a new place, it is often the case that one doesn't have an adequate amount of mobile data to search for information they need. ## What it does Mr.Worldwide allows the user to send queries and receive responses regarding the weather, directions, news and translations in the form of s...
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# Accel - Placed in Intel Track (to be updated by organizers) Your empathetic chemistry tutor [**GitHub »**](https://github.com/DavidSMazur/AI-Berkeley-Hackathon) [Alex Talreja](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-talreja) · [Cindy Yang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/2023cyang/) · [David Mazur](https://www.li...
## Inspiration In many of our own lectures, professors ask students to indicate if they are following along (e.g., hand raising, and thumbs up/down reactions, one professor even said clap if you’re confused). We asked around, and students, including ourselves, often opt out of these reactions in-class to prevent looki...
## Inspiration COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi...
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## Inspiration We decided to create Roadie with a profound purpose rooted in our team's diverse background encompassing music, computer science, business, operations planning, and a shared love of indie rock. Our collective mission was clear: to craft a service to democratize and empower independent "indie" musicians....
## Inspiration We love Travel. We love the environment. And just like us, the majority of Gen Z is prioritizing travel and their love for the environment 90% of Gen Z members reported making changes in their daily lives to live more sustainably, and according to Fortune, 79% Of Gen Z and Millennials see leisure travel...
## Inspiration 3-D Printing. It has been around for decades, yet the printing process is often too complex to navigate, labour intensive and time consuming. Although the technology exists, it is only used by those who are trained in the field because of the technical skills required to operate the machine. We want to ...
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## Inspiration We wanted to take it easier this hackathon and do a "fun" hack. ## What it does The user can search for a song in the Spotify library, and Music in Motion will make a music video based off of the lyrics of the song. ## How we built it Music in Motion first searches for the song in the Spotify librar...
![nu:here](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019611034971013171/1021025653052669972/About_Us.jpg?width=560&height=1035) ## Inspiration Getting engagement is hard. People only read about 20% of the text on the average page. ![nu:here img](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019611034971013171/102102563...
## 💡 Inspiration Manga are Japanese comics, considered to form a genre unique from other graphic novels. Similar to other comics, it lacks a musical component. However, their digital counterparts (such as sites like Webtoons) have innovated on their take on the traditional format with the addition of soundtracks, pla...
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## Inspiration We wanted to make an app that would be useful for university/college students. Cooking for yourself is one of the hardest things to get used to when coming to post-secondary school, and PantryPal is useful tool to aid students in learning how to cook. ## What it does The user can input the food items ...
## Inspiration The motivation for creating this application came from a lazy evening when we opened our refrigerator and took a thorough look. We realized that much of our groceries were expired. Two cans of milk were one week out of date, the chicken that we bought from Whole foods smelt really bad and the mushrooms ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our application stemmed from the desire to solve an issue we, our friends, and our families have experienced. We noticed that hospitals work individually to combat the issue of long patient wait times, and the Canadian government has spent over 100 million dollars to fix it in the pa...
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## Inspiration Despite the advent of the information age, misinformation remains a big issue in today's day and age. Yet, mass media accessibility for newer language speakers, such as younger children or recent immigrants, remains lacking. We want these people to be able to do their own research on various news topics...
## Inspiration Our mission is rooted in the **fight against fake news, misinformation, and disinformation,** which are increasingly pervasive threats in today’s digital world. As the saying goes, "the pen is mightier than the sword," which underscores the power of words and information. We aim to ensure that no one fa...
Fake news or not? Make informed decisions with Insite, the summarizing and analyzing extension. Get the real Insite on things! See right away if an article is perceived to be fake with the use of advanced APIs that analyze the article from beginning to end. Download now @ <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/in...
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## Inspiration As students around 16 years old, skin conditions such as acne make us even more self-conscious than we already are. Furthermore, one of our friends is currently suffering from eczema, so we decided to make an app relating to skin care. While brainstorming for ideas, we realized that the elderly are affe...
## Inspiration The general challenge of UottaHack 4 was to create a hack surrounding COVID-19. We got inspired by a COVID-19 restriction in the province of Quebec which requires stores to limit the number of people allowed in the store at once (depending on the store floor size). This results in many stores having to ...
View presentation at the following link: <https://youtu.be/Iw4qVYG9r40> ## Inspiration During our brainstorming stage, we found that, interestingly, two-thirds (a majority, if I could say so myself) of our group took medication for health-related reasons, and as a result, had certain external medications that result ...
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## Inspiration Most navigation problems in unfamiliar spaces resolve into three challenges: find the current location, find the way to a destination, and find and maintain orientation. When they visit unfamiliar spaces, they first need a sighted guide in order to learn and familiarize themselves with the spaces, rathe...
## Inspiration As UW engineering students, studying takes up the majority of our day (sadly). Especially during the exam season, finding a place to study in popular places like the library or student centre is impossible. However we quickly discovered that the UW Portal app lists free classrooms with no lectures going...
## Inspiration Have you ever had to wait in long lines just to buy a few items from a store? Not wanted to interact with employees to get what you want? Now you can buy items quickly and hassle free through your phone, without interacting with any people whatsoever. ## What it does CheckMeOut is an iOS application t...
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Professor's Pet ## Demo ### Home Page ![](https://github.com/lanpai/ProfessorsPet/blob/main/dist/Demo/loginDemo.gif?raw=true) ### Attendance Page ![](https://github.com/lanpai/ProfessorsPet/blob/main/dist/Demo/attendanceDemo.png?raw=true) --- ## Inspiration According to [*The Journal*](https://thejournal.com/ar...
## Inspiration **As Computer Science is a learning-intensive discipline, students tend to aspire to their professors**. We were inspired to hack this weekend by our beloved professor Daniel Zingaro (UTM). Answering questions in Dan's classes often ends up being a difficult part of our lectures, as Dan is visually impa...
## Inspiration Currently the insurance claims process is quite labour intensive. A person has to investigate the car to approve or deny a claim, and so we aim to make the alleviate this cumbersome process smooth and easy for the policy holders. ## What it does Quick Quote is a proof-of-concept tool for visually eval...
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## Inspiration I suck at snake. ## What it does I made something to help me be better at snake. ## How we built it We enticed the snake with frozen mice until it played well. ## Challenges we ran into Sometimes the snek wasn't hungry. ## Accomplishments that we're proud of We are snek charmers. ## What we lea...
## Inspiration As certified pet owners, we understand that our pets are part of our family. Our companions deserve the best care and attention available. We envisioned the goal of simplifying and modernizing pet care, all in one convenient and elegant app. Our idea began with our longing for our pets. Being internatio...
## Inspiration Queriamos hacer una pagina interactiva la cual llamara la atencion de las personas jovenes de esta manera logrando mantenerlos durante mucho tiempo siendo leales a la familia de marcas Qualtias ## What it does Lo que hace es ## How we built it ## Challenges we ran into Al no tener un experiencia pr...
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## Inspiration: The inspiration for RehabiliNation comes from a mixture of our love for gaming, and our personal experiences regarding researching and working with those who have physical and mental disabilities. ## What it does: Provides an accessible gaming experience for people with physical disabilities and moti...
## 💡Inspiration Gaming is often associated with sitting for long periods of time in front of a computer screen, which can have negative physical effects. In recent years, consoles such as the Kinect and Wii have been created to encourage physical fitness through games such as "Just Dance". However, these consoles are...
## Inspiration One of our friends is blind. She describes using her cane as a hassle, and explains that when she is often stressed about accidentally touching someone with her cane, doing two-handed tasks like carrying groceries or giving a friend a hug, and setting the cane down or leaning it against the wall when sh...
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Can you save a life? ## Inspiration For the past several years heart disease has remained the second leading cause of death in Canada. Many know how to prevent it, but many don’t know how to deal with cardiac events that have the potential to end your life. What if you can change this? ## What it does Can You Save ...
**In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.** ## Inspiration Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen...
Check out our slides here: shorturl.at/fCLR4 ## Inspiration In a digital age increasingly dictated by streaming services’ editorial teams and algorithms, we want to bring the emotion back to the music discovery experience. Your playlists have become an echo chamber of your own past preferences and the short, chorus-l...
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## Inspiration Beautiful stationery and binders filled with clips, stickies, and colourful highlighting are things we miss from the past. Passing notes and memos and recognizing who it's from just from the style and handwriting, holding the sheet in your hand, and getting a little personalized note on your desk are be...
## Inspiration With the ubiquitous and readily available ML/AI turnkey solutions, the major bottlenecks of data analytics lay in the consistency and validity of datasets. **This project aims to enable a labeller to be consistent with both their fellow labellers and their past self while seeing the live class distribut...
## Inspiration It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ...
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## Inspiration Deaf-mute people in the U.S constitute a non-underestimable 2,1% of the population (between 18 and 64 years). This may seem a low percentage but, what if I told you that it is 4 million people? Just like the whole population of Panama! Concerned about this, we first decided to contribute our grain of s...
## Inspiration Just in the United States, 11 million people are deaf, of which half a million use ASL natively. For people who are deaf to communicate with those who are hearing, and therefore most likely not fluent in sign language, they’re constricted to slower methods of communication, such as writing. Similarly, f...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the fact that **diversity in disability is often overlooked** - individuals who are hard-of-hearing or deaf and use **American Sign Language** do not have many tools that support them in learning their language. Because of the visual nature of ASL, it's difficult to translate between...
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## Inspiration We want to have some fun and find out what we could get out of Computer Vision API from Microsoft. ## What it does This is a web application that allows the user to upload an image, generates an intelligent poem from it and reads the poem out load with different chosen voices. ## How we built it We ...
# Links Youtube: <https://youtu.be/VVfNrY3ot7Y> Vimeo: <https://vimeo.com/506690155> # Soundtrack Emotions and music meet to give a unique listening experience where the songs change to match your mood in real time. ## Inspiration The last few months haven't been easy for any of us. We're isolated and getting stuc...
## Inspiration We tried to figure out what kept us connected during the pandemic other then the non ending zoom meetings or the occasional time you spend in class together, and fundamentally this all came down to our ability to just speak and once we started thinking about it we couldn't stop ## What it does We crea...
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## Inspiration Blip emerged from a simple observation: in our fast-paced world, long-form content often goes unheard. Inspired by the success of short-form video platforms like Tiktok, we set out to revolutionize the audio space. ## What it does Our vision is to create a platform where bite-sized audio clips could d...
## Inspiration: The inspiration for Kisan Mitra came from the realization that Indian farmers face a number of challenges in accessing information that can help them improve their productivity and incomes. These challenges include: ``` Limited reach of extension services Lack of awareness of government schemes Diffic...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Mentis emerged from a realization of the vast potential that a personalized learning AI platform holds in transforming education. We envisioned an AI-driven mentor capable of adapting to individual learning styles and needs, making education more accessible, engaging, and effectiv...
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## Inspiration Inspired by personal experience of commonly getting separated in groups and knowing how inconvenient and sometimes dangerous it can be, we aimed to create an application that kept people together. We were inspired by how interlinked and connected we are today by our devices and sought to address social ...
## Inspiration We thought it would be nice if, for example, while working in the Computer Science building, you could send out a little post asking for help from people around you. Also, it would also enable greater interconnectivity between people at an event without needing to subscribe to anything. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration: *This project was inspired by the idea of growth mindset. We all live busy lives and face obstacles everyday but in the face of a difficult situation we can either rise to the occasion or let our obstacles win.* ## What it does *Through the use of Google NLP, our app runs analysis on the users text i...
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## What it does Think "virtual vision stick on steroids"! It is a wearable device that AUDIBLY provides visually impaired people with information on the objects in front of them as well as their proximity. ## How we built it We used computer vision from Python and OpenCV to recognize objects such as "chair" and "per...
## Inspiration We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp...
## Inspiration We thought about how visually impaired people have a very limited perception range, less 2m from their body at all times. To gather information about new environments they would need to physically explore the space which is impractically and time-consuming to do. ## What it does The system consists of...
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## Inspiration In a world where finance is extremely important, everyone needs access to **banking services**. Citizens within **third world countries** are no exception, but they lack the banking technology infrastructure that many of us in first world countries take for granted. Mobile Applications and Web Portals d...
## Inspiration More money, more problems. Lacking an easy, accessible, and secure method of transferring money? Even more problems. An interesting solution to this has been the rise of WeChat Pay, allowing for merchants to use QR codes and social media to make digital payments. But where does this leave people witho...
## Inspiration We want to revolutionize taxes to be simple, tax assistance to be instant and accessible, and forms completed in thirty minutes or less. ## What it does TabbyTax compiles simple tax forms for submission to the IRS via Facebook Messenger. Optimized for first-time taxpayers, students, and those making u...
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## Inspiration With a prior interest in crypto and defi, we were attracted to Uniswap V3's simple yet brilliant automated market maker. The white papers were tantalizing and we had several eureka moments when pouring over them. However, we realized that the concepts were beyond the reach of most casual users who would...
## Inspiration Uniswap creator, Hayden, mentioned during the CalHacks 8.0 kickoff that he felt some of the best features in Uniswap v3 were being under-utilized. We wanted to find out if there was something in this space we could work on. While reading up about v3 and the v3 Oracle in particular, we experimented with...
## Inspiration Our team members really enjoy going to museums. One of the problems that all of us encountered is that after admiring artwork at a museum, we take pictures of our favorite pieces to remember them but do not interact with them a second time. The photo is then lost in the camera roll. We forget the title ...
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## Inspiration The idea for VenTalk originated from an everyday stressor that everyone on our team could relate to; commuting alone to and from class during the school year. After a stressful work or school day, we want to let out all our feelings and thoughts, but do not want to alarm or disturb our loved ones. Relea...
## Inspiration Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke...
## 💡 Inspiration We got inspiration from or back-end developer Minh. He mentioned that he was interested in the idea of an app that helped people record their positive progress and showcase their accomplishments there. This then led to our product/UX designer Jenny to think about what this app would target as a probl...
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# Liber Populus ## Vote like your life depends on it. By many accounts, this upcoming 2020 election will be one of the most contentious to date. With a global pandemic, economic crisis, racial unrest, two starkly different candidates, and a polarized nation, it is important that everyone who is able to partakes in th...
+1 902 903 6416 (send 'cmd' to get started) ## Inspiration We believe in the right of every individual to have access to information, regardless of price or censorship ## What it does NoNet gives unfettered access to internets most popular service without an internet or data connection. It accomplishes this through...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create this by looking at the lack of resources for people to access information about their medications with just a prescription or report such as blood tests ## What it does Takes image of prescriptions, blood tests, X rays or any medical records -> performs OCR or image recogniz...
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## Inspiration We wanted to explore something in the area of safety, and thought about the possibility of being able to know when someone who has harmed or abused you has come within the vicinity. ## What it does When an 'abuser' enters within a set radius of a 'victim', the abuser gets an alert telling them they ha...
## Inspiration “Am I safe?” Maybe you know you’re way around maybe you are new to an area. For women finding the safest way to simply walk outside is something as common place as navigating to avoid traffic and WalkMeHome treats this reality as the obstacle and threat that it is. Our team wanted to design a platform ...
## Inspiration Recent mass shooting events are indicative of a rising, unfortunate trend in the United States. During a shooting, someone may be killed every 3 seconds on average, while it takes authorities an average of 10 minutes to arrive on a crime scene after a distress call. In addition, cameras and live closed ...
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