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# giphyFaceSwap Replace faces in GIFs with your own. Make sure to check out some snapshots of GIFs made with **GIPHY Face Swap** in the slideshow above. ## Inspiration GIFs are supposed to be fun and social. Enabling users to customize any of the GIFs from GIPHY's expansive library makes them even more fun and the a...
## Inspiration What inspired us to build this application was spreading mental health awareness in relationship with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic around the world. While it is easy to brush off signs of fatigue and emotional stress as just "being tired", often times, there is a deeper problem at the root of it. We de...
## Inspiration * You can search for images with words (Google Search) * You can search for words with images (Google Image Search) * Why can't you *search for images with images???* ## What it does * Translates camera image to Giphy search query using Core ML Image Recognition * Keep tapping your screen to add more ...
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# GREENTRaiL ## Inspiration Hiking has exploded in popularity since the pandemic with more than 80 million Americans hiking in 2022 alone. There are many large mental and physical health benefits to hiking, however it can be daunting to select routes as a beginner. It is difficult to imagine how a route would feel be...
## Inspiration Throughout Quarantine and the global pandemic that we are all currently experiencing, I have begun to reflect on my own life and health in general. We may believe we have a particular ailment when, in fact, it is actually our fear getting the best of us. But how can one be sure that the symptoms they ar...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was the recent heatwave, a byproduct of the global warming that has been happening over the past few decades. As an individual, it is difficult to make substanstial change in the fight against climate change. The issues are highly systemic and influenced by large corporations who's energ...
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## Inspiration One of the makers of the project volunteers at a long term care every week for 2 hours. He works with residents that have chronic back pain and other physical disabilities. We wanted to create a device that would reduce the chances of getting back pain from a young age because in our world of technology...
## Inspiration Approximately 107.4 million Americans choose walking as a regular mode of travel for both social and work purposes. In 2015, about 70,000 pedestrians were injured in motor vehicle accidents while over 5,300 resulted in fatalities. Catastrophic accidents as such are usually caused by negligence or inatte...
## Inspiration We've all heard horror stories of people with EVs running out of battery during a trip and not being able to find a charging station. Then, even if they do find one they have to wait so long for their car ot charge it throws off their whole trip. We wanted to make that process better for EV owners. ## ...
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## Inspiration In today's fast-paced world, the average person often finds it challenging to keep up with the constant flow of news and financial updates. With demanding schedules and numerous responsibilities, many individuals simply don't have the time to sift through countless news articles and financial reports to...
## ✨ Inspiration Driven by the goal of more accessible and transformative education, our group set out to find a viable solution. Stocks are very rarely taught in school and in 3rd world countries even less, though if used right, it can help many people go above the poverty line. We seek to help students and adults le...
## Inspiration We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases. We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne...
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## Inspiration Every year, our school does a Grand Challenges Research project where they focus on important topic in the world. This year, the focus is on mental health which providing cost-effective treatment and make it accessible to everyone. We all may know someone who has a phobia, came back from a tour in the m...
## Story Mental health is a major issue especially on college campuses. The two main challenges are diagnosis and treatment. ### Diagnosis Existing mental health apps require the use to proactively input their mood, their thoughts, and concerns. With these apps, it's easy to hide their true feelings. We wanted to f...
## Inspiration Mental health issues are difficult enough to feel, and another thing to try to actively address. There are many valid therapeutic methods of addressing mental health, but sometimes a simple metric is a great place to start. When I was struggling with my mental health, I wished I could know better how of...
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## Inspiration SustainaPal is a project that was born out of a shared concern for the environment and a strong desire to make a difference. We were inspired by the urgent need to combat climate change and promote sustainable living. Seeing the increasing impact of human activities on the planet's health, we felt compe...
## Inspiration We wanted to build a sustainable project which gave us the idea to plant crops on a farmland in a way that would give the farmer the maximum profit. The program also accounts for crop rotation which means that the land gets time to replenish its nutrients and increase the quality of the soil. ## What i...
## Inspiration At Carb0, we're committed to empowering individuals to take control of their carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable future. Our inspiration comes from the fact that 72% of CO2 emissions could be reduced by changes in consumer behavior, yet many companies lack the motivation to conduct ESG...
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# Journally - A journal entry a day. All through text. ## Welcome to Journally! Where we restore our memories one journal, one day at a time. ## Inspiration and What it Does With everyone returning to their busy lives of work, commuting, school, and other commitments, people need an opportunity to restore their peac...
# TextMemoirs ## nwHacks 2023 Submission by Victor Parangue, Kareem El-Wishahy, Parmvir Shergill, and Daniel Lee Journalling is a well-established practice that has been shown to have many benefits for mental health and overall well-being. Some of the main benefits of journalling include the ability to reflect on one...
## Inspiration The idea for SlideForge came from the struggles researchers face when trying to convert complex academic papers into presentations. Many academics spend countless hours preparing slides for conferences, lectures, or public outreach, often sacrificing valuable time they could be using for research. We wa...
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## Inspiration: As per the Stats provided by Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, 19,344,883 civilian veterans ages 18 years and over live in the community in 2013, of which 5,522,589 were individuals with disabilities . DAV - Disabled American Veterans organization has spent about $ 61.8 million to buy and operate...
## Inspiration Around 43.3% of NFT users are victims of NFT fraud. To prevent this and benefit society, we created a publicly available website, nftlaundromat.tech, where you can see and track NFT fraudsters. This way, NFT fraudsters will hesitate to commit fraud in the future as they know they would be publicly shame...
## Inspiration During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w...
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# DriveWise: Building a Safer Future in Route Planning Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens, with over a third of teen fatalities resulting from traffic accidents. This represents one of the most pressing public safety issues today. While many route-planning algorithms exist, most prioritiz...
## Inspiration Most of us have probably donated to a cause before — be it $1 or $1000. Resultantly, most of us here have probably also had the same doubts: * who is my money really going to? * what is my money providing for them...if it’s providing for them at all? * how much of my money actually goes use by the indi...
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from how we are all relatively new drivers and terrified of busy intersections. Although speed is extremely important to transport from one spot to another, safety should always be highlighted when it comes to the road because car accidents are the number one cause of death in the w...
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## Idea An improved way of delivering PDT (Photodymanic Therapy) for surface level lesions. The idea is to create a modified array of LED lights (two types with spectral peak differences of 10 - 15nm), and vary the current through the lights slightly to produce an exitation light custom to each patient. Blue light pho...
## Inspiration Inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), we are developing an AI-powered medical diagnostic service to address the needs of individuals who struggle to access healthcare. Our focus is on providing timely support for those unable to visit a doctor due to mobility issues, busy schedules, long wait ...
## Inspiration We came into the hackathon knowing we wanted to focus on a project concerning sustainability. While looking at problems, we found that lighting is a huge contributor to energy use, accounting for about 15% of global energy use (DOE, 2015). Our idea for this specific project came from the dark areas in t...
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## Inspiration Large Language models is what everyone is talking about in the AI industry. We decided to leverage LLMs and create an application that students around the world could use, especially those that might not have access to a professor and want to efficiently learn complex topics while using their favorite S...
Driven by a shared passion for leveraging AI in education, our team of four embarked on a hackathon journey to revolutionize how learners access information. We envisioned a world where lengthy textbooks, lectures, and videos could be transformed into concise, engaging learning experiences. Pooling our diverse skill s...
## Inspiration In a world full of so much info but limited time as we are so busy and occupied all the time, we wanted to create a tool that helps students make the most of their learning—quickly and effectively. We imagined a platform that could turn complex material into digestible, engaging content tailored for a f...
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## Inspiration We have family members that have autism, and Cinthya told us about a history including her imaginary friends and how she interacted with them in her childhood, so we started a research about this two topics and we came around to with "Imaginary Friends" ## What it does We are developing an application...
## Inspiration Having previously volunteered and worked with children with cerebral palsy, we were struck with the monotony and inaccessibility of traditional physiotherapy. We came up with a cheaper, more portable, and more engaging way to deliver treatment by creating virtual reality games geared towards 12-15 year ...
## Inspiration One charge of the average EV's battery uses as much electricity as a house uses every 2.5 days. This puts a huge strain on the electrical grid: people usually plug in their car as soon as they get home, during what is already peak demand hours. At this time, not only is electricity the most expensive, b...
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## What we built We built trending-news-annotator to facilitate the creation of question-answer pairs for trending-news articles that appear on Facebook. The question-answer pairs are formatted to resemble the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) for machine comprehension. ## Submission Our submission is cont...
## Inspiration As young adults, we're navigating the new waves of independence and university life, juggling numerous responsibilities and a busy schedule. Amidst the hustle, we often struggle to keep track of everything, including our groceries. It's all too common for food to get pushed to the back of the fridge, on...
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future. ## What inspired us We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work. ## Background If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te...
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♫♫ ##Inspiration ♫♫ Wouldn't everyone like someone to sit in their house and serenade them on the piano? With any song they want? Wouldn't it be easier for everyone to learn songs on the piano if there was a machine that simply listened to songs and taught it to them? Why should you listen to music through a speaker w...
## Inspiration As a team of musicians, we wanted to share our love of music with others by creating a way to teach people who are traditionally unable to learn music due to special circumstances. This was our inspiration to create pianoEd, a program to teach visually impaired people how to play piano. ## What it does...
## 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 Vehicle emissions account for a large percentage of North America's yearly carbon dioxide emissions. However, despite many efforts in the past, people remain reluctant to proactively make even small contributions to this generational issue. We believe that this lack of proactivity is due to a lack of re...
## Inspiration Urban areas are increasingly polluted by traffic, and although people make an effort to ride share, cars still produce a large portion of urban carbon dioxide emissions. App-based directions offer an option between distance-optimized or time-optimized routes, but never present the possibility of an eco-...
## Inspiration Understanding and expressing emotions can be a complex and challenging journey. Many people struggle to connect and identify with their feelings, which can be overwhelming and confusing. Let It Out was born from the desire to create a supportive space where users can explore and engage with their emotio...
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## Inspiration Inspired by block-chain systems and the security of a decentralized system. P2Secure allows an intermediary to handle collateral when lending or borrowing assets, with security and credibility. ## What it does Allows parties to place a collateral in a contract with specified return dates when lending ...
## Inspiration The counterfeiting industry is anticipated to grow to $2.8 trillion in 2022 costing 5.4 million jobs. These counterfeiting operations push real producers to bankruptcy as cheaper knockoffs with unknown origins flood the market. In order to solve this issue we developed a blockchain powered service with ...
## Inspiration **An·thro·po·cene:** relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Every year Toronto residents accumulate 491,747 tonnes of waste that end up in Landfills. A solution to this waste is ...
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## Inspiration Autism is the fastest growing developmental disorder worldwide – preventing 3 million individuals worldwide from reaching their full potential and making the most of their lives. Children with autism often lack crucial communication and social skills, such as recognizing emotions and facial expressions ...
## Inspiration My cousin recently had children, and as they enter their toddler years, I saw how they use their toys. They buy them, use them for a couple weeks, but then get bored. To be honest, however, I can't blame them. Currently, toys are used in one way, with no real interaction coming from both the child and t...
## Inspiration Touch screen devices have been used increasingly in the domain of cognitive healing as an aid for children with autism, down-syndrome, and brain traumatic injury To help treat amnesia, dementia, and post stroke symptoms There generally is no one-size-fits all solution to help rehabilitate these victims ...
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## Inspiration A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s...
**check out the project demo during the closing ceremony!** <https://youtu.be/TnKxk-GelXg> ## Inspiration On average, half of patients with chronic illnesses like heart disease or asthma don’t take their medication. Reports estimates that poor medication adherence could be costing the country $300 billion in increase...
## Inspiration When you are prescribed medication by a Doctor, it is crucial that you complete the dosage cycle in order to ensure that you recover fully and quickly. Unfortunately forgetting to take your medication is something that we have all done. Failing to run the full course of medicine often results in a delay...
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# Highlights A product of [YHack '16](http://www.yhack.org/). Built by Aaron Vontell, Ali Benlalah & Cooper Pellaton. ## Table of Contents * [Overview](#overview) * [Machine Learning and More](#machine-learning-and-more) * [Our Infrastructure](#our-infrastructure) * [API](#api) ## Overview The first thing you're p...
## Inspiration Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our Auto-Teach project stemmed from the growing need to empower both educators and learners with a **self-directed and adaptive** learning environment. We were inspired by the potential to merge technology with education to create a platform that fosters **personalized learning exper...
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## Background Scanning Tunneling Microscopes are devices that allow you to image atomic scale features, commonly used in physics and semiconductor research. It was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, winning them a nobel prize. A small handful of hobbyists have constructed DIY versions of these devi...
## Inspiration Nikola Tesla, Green energy advancements, fighting climate change, promoting sustainability, NASA x BYU collab (complient mechanism) ## What it does Tracks the sun to make the solar panels more efficient ## How we built it Using Arduino IDE with an Uno, photoresistors to send signals to the Arduino, ...
## Inspiration We love computer science, and wikipedia. ## What it does Converts most of the numbers on wikipedia pages to binary ## How we built it Ontop of many failed projects and some coffee ## Challenges we ran into Other projects ## Accomplishments that we're proud of We came to Montreal, had fun, and ma...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for creating this project stems from a pressing global issue - the proliferation of counterfeit products in the market. Counterfeit goods not only harm consumers by delivering subpar quality but also pose significant risks to businesses, eroding trust in brands, and potentially causing h...
## Inspiration No one wants to be handed the aux on a 5-hour road trip. What song do you pick? What artist? Immeasurable amounts of stress can arise from this one simple task. No one wants to be the one to kill the mood. CarJam seeks to resolve this universal issue for all of your future road trips and save some frien...
## 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...
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## Inspiration The main focus of our project is creating opportunities for people to interact virtually and pursue their interests while remaining active. We hoped to accomplish this through a medium that people are already interested in and providing them with a tool to take that interest to the next level. From thes...
## Inspiration The idea arose from the current political climate. At a time where there is so much information floating around, and it is hard for people to even define what a fact is, it seemed integral to provide context to users during speeches. ## What it does The program first translates speech in audio into te...
## Inspiration We aren't musicians. We can't dance. With AirTunes, we can try to do both! Superheroes are also pretty cool. ## What it does AirTunes recognizes 10 different popular dance moves (at any given moment) and generates a corresponding sound. The sounds can be looped and added at various times to create an ...
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## Inspiration Improve the productivity of people, groups, and businesses by keeping checklists simple, reusable, sharable, and extendable. ## What it does A real-time collaborative, sharable and reusable checklist for any platform. This platform provides easy to use APIs to extend functionality. For example, users ...
## Forgetting my deadlines and missing on important dates and work. ## What it does - It helps up keep tracks of our things whether if you are going on shopping and you can note down all the grocery items which you want to purchase , or suppose you have a deadline of some project then you can make note of your progres...
## Inspiration Everyone in society is likely going to buy a home at some point in their life. They will most likely meet realtors, see a million listings, gather all the information they can about the area, and then make a choice. But why make the process so complicated? MeSee lets users pick and recommend regions of...
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## Inspiration Between my friends and I, when there is a task everyone wants to avoid, we play a game to decide quickly. These tasks may include, ordering pizza or calling an uber for the group. The game goes like this, whoever thinks of this game first says "shotty not" and then touches their nose. Everyone else reac...
## Inspiration We wanted to promote an easy learning system to introduce verbal individuals to the basics of American Sign Language. Often people in the non-verbal community are restricted by the lack of understanding outside of the community. Our team wants to break down these barriers and create a fun, interactive, ...
## Inspiration The Canadian winter's erratic bouts of chilling cold have caused people who have to be outside for extended periods of time (like avid dog walkers) to suffer from frozen fingers. The current method of warming up your hands using hot pouches that don't last very long is inadequate in our opinion. Our goa...
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## Realm Inspiration Our inspiration stemmed from our fascination in the growing fields of AR and virtual worlds, from full-body tracking to 3D-visualization. We were interested in realizing ideas in this space, specifically with sensor detecting movements and seamlessly integrating 3D gestures. We felt that the prime...
## 💡 Inspiration💡 Our team is saddened by the fact that so many people think that COVID-19 is obsolete when the virus is still very much relevant and impactful to us. We recognize that there are still a lot of people around the world that are quarantining—which can be a very depressing situation to be in. We wanted ...
## Inspiration Not all products are designed in a user-friendly and intuitive way. We often come across devices that are annoying and unclear to use. This is especially true for people with less exposure to tech, such as seniors. Whether it’s setting up a new tech gadget or controlling the AC in a new rental car, read...
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## Inspiration There are many misconceptions around solar panels being truly a green energy alternative. Many people want to help the Earth and decide to purchase private solar panels for their home. One major flaw in solar power is from the variable energy output depending on where they are located - hours of sunligh...
## Inspiration We wanted to make a **fun** and **interactive** tool which allows people to very easily see ways in which they can live more sustainably. Given that in a year or two, our team will have to consider renting an apartment / buying a home, we have considered what is truly important! In that spirit, we wante...
## 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...
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## Inspiration It's lunchtime, you are looking for somewhere to go to eat so you open Yelp and look for recommendations. After scrolling through many pages, you are overwhelmed by the number of restaurants around you and can't decide where to eat so you end up going to the fast food restaurant you always go to. We've ...
## Inspiration Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
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# Echo Chef ### TreeHacks 2016 @ Stanford #### <http://echochef.net/> Ever wanted a hands-free way to follow recipes while you cook? Echo Chef can guide you through recipes interactively, think of it as your personal assistant in the kitchen. Just add your favorite recipes to our web interface and they'll be availab...
## Inspiration Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o...
# Cook It! **Cook It!** is a web service that is personalized to your tastes and for your taste. It uses the Amazon AWS Machine Learning API to learn your food preferences and to recommend recipes that you can make with the ingredients in your fridge. Just enter your ingredient list and select your meal type (from Bre...
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## FLEX [Freelancing Linking Expertise Xchange] ## Inspiration Freelancers deserve a platform where they can fully showcase their skills, without worrying about high fees or delayed payments. Companies need fast, reliable access to talent with specific expertise to complete jobs efficiently. "FLEX" bridges the gap, e...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the instability and corruption of many developing governments and wanted to provide more transparency for citizens. The immutability and decentralization of IPFS seemed like the perfect tool for this problem. We further developed this idea into a framework for conducting government a...
## Inspiration Inspired by the need to streamline the job application and interview process, our project aims to eliminate the tediousness of traditional methods. With the growing competition in the job market, we envisioned a platform that not only assists candidates in applying for jobs but also meticulously prepare...
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## Inspiration Toronto suffers from a 26% contamination rate in their recycling, that is nearly a quarter of all the recycling completed does not actually end up being recycled. Contamination happens when non-recyclable materials or garbage end up in the recycling system, from leftover food in containers to non-recycl...
## Inspiration Have you ever gone on a nice dinner out with friends, only to find that the group is too big for your server to split the bills according to each person's order? Someone inevitably decides to pay for the whole group and asks everyone to pay them back afterwards, but this doesn't always happen right away...
## Inspiration As university students, we and our peers have found that our garbage and recycling have not been taken by the garbage truck for some unknown reason. They give us papers or stickers with warnings, but these get lost in the wind, chewed up by animals, or destroyed because of the weather. For homeowners or...
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## Inspiration We found that as we made more friends, keeping track of events became hard and texting friends to figure out plans for the weekend becomes tedious.With a little inspiration from friends, we decided to develop LitUp. ## What it does Too lazy to check all your event invites? Want to see what your friend...
## Inspiration When you're planning an evening out with friends, it can be very difficult to agree on what to do. We wanted to ease that pain. ## What it does We created a mobile web app that is like tinder for events. Simply give a location, number of friends, date and time, and you'll get a unique url that you can...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ...
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## Inspiration We have a problem! We have a new generation of broke philanthropists. The majority of students do not have a lot of spare cash so it can be challenging for them to choose between investing in their own future or the causes that they believe in to build a better future for others. On the other hand, la...
## Inspiration With the rise of meme stocks taking over the minds of gen-z, vast amounts of young people are diving into the world of finance. We wanted to make a platform to make it easy for young people to choose stocks based on what matters most: the environment. ## What it does Loraxly speaks for the trees: it a...
## Inspiration In the past three months, there have been over 60 current events that have resulted in over 200 deaths and have affected over 2 million people. From natural disasters such as Hurricane Dorian and the wildfires burning in the Amazon to events such as the El Paso shooting that prompt discussions around so...
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## Inspiration We wanted to be able to allow people to understand the news they read in context because often times, we ourselves will read about events happening on the other side of the globe, but we have no idea where it is. So we wanted a way to visualize the news along with it's place in the world. ## What it do...
## Inspiration We realized that while there are many news sources out there, with this, we can see what countries in the world are news hotspots - the ones that have the most things going on. You can view the world from a new perspective with our World New Map, seeing which countries are the centers of action and even...
## Inspiration While observing the vast amount of climate data available, we realized there wasn't a singular, user-friendly platform to visualize this data in real-time. We wanted to make global climate data accessible and understandable to everyone. ## What it does GlobeGlance offers an interactive 3D earth view, ...
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## Inspiration Every year, millions of infants die from diseases such as Birth Asphyxia, Kawasaki disease, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), etc. This could be prevented via a responsive system to monitor and care for the baby during emergencies while keeping the parents more medically involved, and saving importan...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project was the recent wildfires in Canada, which have polluted and damaged the air quality throughout the world. With this website, we strive to raise awareness of the environment, which has been getting damaged throughout the years, and educate people about the air quality. #...
## Inspiration Tired, sleep-deprived, and hungry-- the first thing you’d want once you retreat back to your humble abode is a perfectly cooked bowl of noodles just the way YOU like it. Last thing you want to do... is make it yourself. ## What it does Through our iOS app, customize a bowl of noodles to your liking. M...
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## Inspiration There are so many apps out there that track your meals, but they often don't work for people who struggle with access to healthy and affordable food. FoodPrint is creating a meal-tracking app that is designed with people who struggle with food security in mind. By using the app, anonymous data can be co...
## Inspiration Every 2 in 5 Americans are classified as medically obese. Obesity is the leading cause of suffering in many developed countries, not because of the lack of healthy food available but more so due to the lack of information that many brands provide. In our quest to combat this ever-growing issue globally...
## Inspiration Despite being a global priority in the eyes of the United Nations, food insecurity still affects hundreds of millions of people. Even in the developed country of Canada, over 5.8 million individuals (>14% of the national population) are living in food-insecure households. These individuals are unable to...
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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 ...
## Inspiration How many times have you forgotten to take your medication and damned yourself for it? It has happened to us all, with different consequences. Indeed, missing out on a single pill can, for some of us, throw an entire treatment process out the window. Being able to keep track of our prescriptions is key i...
## Inspiration This project is inspired by our personal experiences of seeing elderly relatives struggle with keeping track of their prescriptions as well as with the complexity of modern tech. By creating simple, no-signup-required, and user-friendly apps, we aim to enhance their quality of life and improve their hea...
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## Video Demo <https://youtu.be/_edJf_7ZcLk> ## Project GitHub <https://github.com/AnselZeng/Teamote> ## Inspiration As more and more classes are moving online due to the pandemic, it is very crucial to make sure that students are able to learn properly and teachers are able to teach as they did in classrooms. ##...
## Inspiration COVID-19 has drastically transformed education from in-person to online. While being more accessible, e-learning imposes challenges in terms of attention for both educators and students. Attention is key to any learning experience, and it could normally be assessed approximately by the instructor from t...
## Inspiration Today we live in a world that is all online with the pandemic forcing us at home. Due to this, our team and the people around us were forced to rely on video conference apps for school and work. Although these apps function well, there was always something missing and we were faced with new problems we ...
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## Inspiration Ever since ChatGPT came out, my most frequent use for it *by far* was to help me study for my courses. Over the past two years, I've gotten quite good at using it in a way that is most helpful for making content as digestible and easily understandable as possible for myself. Our goal was not only to str...
## Inspiration Coming from South Texas, two of the team members saw ESL (English as a Second Language) students being denied of a proper education. Our team created a tool to break down language barriers that traditionally perpetuate socioeconomic cycles of poverty by providing detailed explanations about word problem...
## 💡 Inspiration You have another 3-hour online lecture, but you’re feeling sick and your teacher doesn’t post any notes. You don’t have any friends that can help you, and when class ends, you leave the meet with a blank document. The thought lingers in your mind “Will I ever pass this course?” If you experienced a ...
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## Inspiration Every time I talk to someone about boardgames, a few games always skip my mind because there are just so many good games to keep track of! If only there was a convenient location where I could access all of the board games that I own or am interested in. ## What it does Boardhoard allows you to access...
## Inspiration Every thursday night when my friend group meetup, we always spend at least 10 minutes or more debating which is a good boardgame to play for the night. Because we have varying number of people in the room each time and we don't know which board games we own and how many players each game can support, we...
## Inspiration GeoGuesser is a fun game which went viral in the middle of the pandemic, but after having played for a long time, it started feeling tedious and boring. Our Discord bot tries to freshen up the stale air by providing a playlist of iconic locations in addendum to exciting trivia like movies and monuments ...
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Bet for Bit is a premium, high-security Bitcoin betting service for dedicated sports fans. It is built with Python, Django, and the CoinBase api. Our platform scrapes live sports stats, and allows users to place bitcoin bets on their sports teams.
## Inspiration Prolonged covid restrictions have caused immense damage to the economy and local markets alike. Shifts in this economic landscape have led to many individuals seeking alternate sources of income to account for the losses imparted by lack of work or general opportunity. One major sector that has seen a b...
## Inspiration The anonymity of cryptocurrencies is a blessing and a curse. One of Bitcoin's major shortcomings is its usefulness in criminal activity. Money laundering, drug sales, and other illegal activities use Bitcoin to evade law enforcement. This makes it hard for legitimate people and businesses to avoid deali...
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## Inspiration Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book. Millions of other people also struggle...
## 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...
We started off wanting to make a program to make inputting equations to online platforms easier for you but quickly realized that our text based idea had much more potential than that. Now it has become a tool that both the visually impaired and children can use to better their lives and combat illiteracy at any age. I...
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## Inspiration Fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, and legumes don’t play the **central role** they need to in our food system. The result is a **chronic health epidemic**, disastrous impacts on the **climate**, and **unequal access** to food. We wanted to find a tangible solution to this very real and consequential proble...
## Inspiration Agriculture is the backbone of our society. Not only providing a supply of food, agriculture is responsible for the production of raw materials such as textiles, sugar, coffee, cocoa, and oils. For many, agriculture is not only an occupation but it is a way of life. This is especially true for those far...
## Overview Crop diseases pose a significant threat to global food security, especially in regions lacking proper infrastructure for rapid disease identification. To address this challenge, we present a web application that leverages the widespread adoption of smartphones and cutting-edge transfer learning models. Our...
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## Inspiration Business cards haven't changed in years, but cARd can change this! Inspired by the rise of augmented reality applications, we see potential for creative networking. Next time you meet someone at a conference, a career fair, etc., simply scan their business card with your phone and watch their entire onl...
💡 ## Inspiration 49 percent of women reported feeling unsafe walking alone after nightfall according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In light of recent sexual assault and harassment incidents in the London, Ontario and Western community, women now feel unsafe travelling alone more than ever. Light My W...
## Inspiration Course selection is an exciting but frustrating time to be a Princeton student. While you can look at all the cool classes that the university has to offer, it is challenging to aggregate a full list of prerequisites and borderline impossible to find what courses each of them leads to in the future. We ...
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## Inspiration Peripheral nerve compression syndromes such as carpal tunnel syndrome affect approximately 1 out of every 6 adults. They are commonly caused by repetitive stress and with the recent trend of working at home due to the pandemic it has become a mounting issue more individuals will need to address. There e...
## Inspiration Physiotherapy is expensive for what it provides you with, A therapist stepping you through simple exercises and giving feedback and evaluation? WE CAN TOTALLY AUTOMATE THAT! We are undergoing the 4th industrial revolution and technology exists to help people in need of medical aid despite not having the...
## Inspiration Course selection is an exciting but frustrating time to be a Princeton student. While you can look at all the cool classes that the university has to offer, it is challenging to aggregate a full list of prerequisites and borderline impossible to find what courses each of them leads to in the future. We ...
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## ✨ Inspiration Driven by the goal of more accessible and transformative education, our group set out to find a viable solution. Stocks are very rarely taught in school and in 3rd world countries even less, though if used right, it can help many people go above the poverty line. We seek to help students and adults le...
## Inspiration In today's fast-paced world, the average person often finds it challenging to keep up with the constant flow of news and financial updates. With demanding schedules and numerous responsibilities, many individuals simply don't have the time to sift through countless news articles and financial reports to...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind MyStock derives from our own personal experience and views on investing. The both of us look to invest in stocks in the future, however we don't know much about the investing world and the stock market. We've also noticed that some of our family and friends are in similar situatio...
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**Inspiration** Currently, society faces many environmental challenges with the fashion industry known as one of the most polluting industries in the world. Fast fashion produces clothing that isn't made to last since they are made with cheap materials that harm the environment (landfill impact, pesticides in growing c...
## Inspiration The fashion industry is often overlooked when we think about the main suspects to pollution. The industry has been burdened by hidden supply chains, unethical labor practices, and significant environmental damage in various sectors. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that the fashion industry i...
## Inspiration As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r...
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# ImperialSim ## Background Imperialism and Colonialism are viewed as relics of days-gone-by, but numerous modern institutional problems - ranging from racism to economic inequality and global warming- stem as a result of these phenomena There is also a lack of understanding in colonialism's global impact, with many...
## Inspiration We were inspired by sentiment analysis in the news, as well as crisis trackers. We decided to use co:here to run our own sentiment analysis for current events to pick out petitions one might want to sign! ## What it does Our project aims to visualise global turmoil for the user through news headlines....
## Inspiration memes have become a cultural phenomenon and a huge recreation for many young adults including ourselves. for this hackathon, we decided to connect the sociability aspect of the popular site "twitter", and combine it with a methodology of visualizing the activity of memes in various neighborhoods. we hop...
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## Inspiration As our team nears the point in our lives in which buying our first home is on our radar, we've realized how cumbersome and daunting the task is, especially for new homeowners. Just the first step, determining which house you can afford, is already difficult, as a home's listing price doesn’t even begin ...
## Inspiration One of our team members is a community manager for a real estate development group that often has trouble obtaining certifications in their attempts to develop eco-friendly buildings. The trouble that they go through, leaves them demotivated because of the cost and effort, leading them to avoid the proc...
## Inspiration Through a discussion about Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity with Professor Michael Wilcox, the topic of financial literacy and the disparity it has caused in the US was brought up, and we noticed how alarming the situation was. The statistics revealed serious problems rooted in information assymet...
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## Inspiration We all know that you shouldn't simply throw away used batteries or broken lightbulbs in the bin. But we also know that we might often be too lazy to go all the way to a recycling centre for a couple of batteries. The solution? Lazy disposal! ## What it does Submit the items you want to get rid of in a...
## Inspiration This system was designed to make waste collection more efficient, organized and user-friendly. Keeping the end users in mind we have created a system that detects what type of waste has been inserted in the bin and categorizes it as a recyclable or garbage. The system then opens the appropriate shoot (...
## 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...
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## Inspiration The system Coursera uses to authenticate users, but for arbitrary text fields. ## What it does Identifies potentially fraudulent activity through keystroke dynamics. ## How we built it Javascript to implement the data-collection, MATLAB to train the algorithm, and a fancy bootstrap theme to jazz it ...
## Inspiration Coming from South Texas, two of the team members saw ESL (English as a Second Language) students being denied of a proper education. Our team created a tool to break down language barriers that traditionally perpetuate socioeconomic cycles of poverty by providing detailed explanations about word problem...
## Inspiration <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuOxQzDN3Y> Robbie's story stuck out to me at the endless limitations of technology. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy which prevented him from having full control of his arms and legs. He was gifted with a Google home that crafted his home into a voice controlle...
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## Inspiration 🎮 We wanted to make an open world game with cool graphics and lighting. In addition, we wanted to play around with the Unity game engine to create something 3D. ## What's it About 🌃 **Escape from Polis** is an open world game set in a dystopian city. You play as a survivor trying to break the barrie...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the topic of UofTHacks X theme **Exploration**. The game itself requires **players to explore** all the clues inside the rooms. We also want **"explore" ourselves** in UofTHacks X. Since our team does not have experience in game development, we also witness our 24-hour-accomplishment...
## Inspiration My college friends and brother inspired me for doing such good project .This is mainly a addictive game which is same as we played in keypad phones ## What it does This is a 2-d game which includes tunes graphics and much more .we can command the snake to move ip-down-right and left ## How we built i...
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## Inspiration Everyone in society is likely going to buy a home at some point in their life. They will most likely meet realtors, see a million listings, gather all the information they can about the area, and then make a choice. But why make the process so complicated? MeSee lets users pick and recommend regions of...
## Inspiration As the lines between AI-generated and real-world images blur, the integrity and trustworthiness of visual content have become critical concerns. Traditional metadata isn't as reliable as it once was, prompting us to seek out groundbreaking solutions to ensure authenticity. ## What it does "The Mask" i...
## Inspiration As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe...
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## 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 This past year, we've seen the effects of uncontrolled algorithmic amplification on society. From widespread [riot-inciting misinformation on Facebook](https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21183341/facebook-misinformation-report-nathalie-marechal) to the explosive growth of TikTok - a platform that serves...
## Inspiration The American Healthcare system is expensive and complicated. Everyone wants the best, most cost-effective insurance plan, but choosing one can feel like a daunting task. We were motivated to build a product that could deal with large benefits summaries containing opaque language and support our users' u...
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## Inspiration Seeing that physical fitness was a rather under-served aspect of quarantine, we were very excited to pursue an opportunity that would both increase interpersonal engagement while getting people up and moving - ultimately improving both mental and physical fitness. ## What it does Our application conne...
## Inspiration We had never worked with augmented reality before and believed there was no better time to learn how to use it than at HackMIT. ## What it does Our prototype recognizes landmarks in images, and gives a brief synopsis on each travel destination as well as links for further information. ## How we built...
## Inspiration Being sport and fitness buffs, we understand the importance of right form. Incidentally, suffering from a wrist injury himself, Mayank thought of this idea while in a gym where he could see almost everyone following wrong form for a wide variety of exercises. He knew that it couldn't be impossible to ma...
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# Summary **Just two weeks ago, two devastating earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, leaving 46,000 dead and many more lost under the remains of buildings.** **Emergency response efforts were significantly impeded by inefficient recovery protocols to screen the large area of land affected, depleting the chances of su...
# How it started We were brainstorming ideas, passionate about a project that had a social impact. The IBM and Microsoft sponsor challenges were especially interesting, and we began discussing problem areas during natural disasters. **Communication is the most value asset during disaster.** Not only do communication l...
## Inspiration eCommerce is a field that has seen astronomical growth in recent years, and shows no signs of slowing down. With a forecasted growth rate of 10.4% this year, up to $6.3 trillion in global revenues, we decided to tackle Noibu’s challenge to develop an extension to aide ecommerce developers with the impos...
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## Inspiration Why settle for 2D when you can have 3D? As avid entrepreneurs and salesmen, we always strive for the ultimate sales tools to improve customer conversion. After recognizing that the majority of online shopping is done on mobile, we noticed a gap in the market. 2-dimensional images don't let customers tru...
## Inspiration Shopping can be a very frustrating experience at times. Nowadays, almost everything is digitally connected yet some stores fall behind when it comes to their shopping experience. We've unfortunately encountered scenarios where we weren't able to find products stocked at our local grocery store, and ther...
## 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 Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book. Millions of other people also struggle...
## 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...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind HumanFT comes from the desire to revolutionize the way people receive feedback and approach personal development. The project aims to harness the power of advanced technology to provide individuals, educational institutions, and organizations with a comprehensive feedback system t...
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## Inspiration We wanted to make something that linked the virtual and real worlds, but in a quirky way. On our team we had people who wanted to build robots and people who wanted to make games, so we decided to combine the two. ## What it does Our game portrays a robot (Todd) finding its way through obstacles that ...
## Inspiration Minecraft has an interesting map mechanic where your character holds a map which "draws itself" while exploring the world. I am also very interested in building a plotter, which is a printer that uses a pen and (XY) gantry to produce images. These ideas seemed to fit together quite well. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration Our teammate, Anchit, worked in ESG investing for 5 years and understood that ESG scores are broken. Despite ESG investors spending millions of $ hiring consultants to do this research, ESG scores are not accurate and do not reflect public sentiment. For example, ESG rating agencies awarded EV maker Tes...
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## What it does This google chrome extension checks if an online article has traces that might indicate it is a fake news. ## How we built it We coded the majority of our logic in python, using a large dataset and cosine similarity to find intersections among different articles. We then coded the extension using jav...
## Inspiration Disinformation and misinformation loom large in today's world. As it becomes easier to share information, it becomes more important that we develop quick and intuitive ways of viewing all perspectives. This project aims to begin this process by offering a ‘bias reverser’, in which users can view article...
## Inspiration 1. Affordable pet doors with simple "flap" mechanisms are not secure 2. Potty trained pets requires the door to be manually opened (e.g. ring a bell, scratch the door) ## What it does The puppy *(or cat, we don't discriminate)* can exit without approval as soon as the sensor detects an object within t...
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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 We are currently living through one of the largest housing crises in human history. As a result, more Canadians than ever before are seeking emergency shelter to stay off the streets and find a safe place to recuperate. However, finding a shelter is still a challenging, manual process, where no digital ...
## Inspiration Over **15% of American adults**, over **37 million** people, are either **deaf** or have trouble hearing according to the National Institutes of Health. One in eight people have hearing loss in both ears, and not being able to hear or freely express your thoughts to the rest of the world can put deaf pe...
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## FLEX [Freelancing Linking Expertise Xchange] ## Inspiration Freelancers deserve a platform where they can fully showcase their skills, without worrying about high fees or delayed payments. Companies need fast, reliable access to talent with specific expertise to complete jobs efficiently. "FLEX" bridges the gap, e...
# Inspiration Traditional startup fundraising is often restricted by stringent regulations, which make it difficult for small investors and emerging founders to participate. These barriers favor established VC firms and high-networth individuals, limiting innovation and excluding a broad range of potential investors. ...
## Inspiration Initially, we struggled to find a project idea. After circling through dozens of ideas and the occasional hacker's block, we were still faced with a huge ***blank space***. In the midst of all our confusion, it hit us that this feeling of desperation and anguish is familiar to all thinkers and creators....
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## Inspiration A few weeks before HT6, Randy received a poorly shipped package with too much plastic filler. Coincidentally, Ryan received a package with almost 90% empty space and was packed even worse. This prompted our team to want to tackle a major problem: reducing packaging waste (and as a result, logistics effi...
## Inspiration Therapy is all about creating a trusting relationship between the clients and their therapist. Building rapport, or trust, is the main job of a therapist, especially at the beginning. But in the current practices, therapists have to take notes throughout the session to keep track of their clients. This ...
## Inspiration Have you ever faced the problem of trying to fit in too many takeout containers into your fridge? Or tried to stock your kitchen closet with an obscene amount of ramen cups? We started by looking at common problems so niche that there wasn’t a solution readily available online yet. We wanted to solve so...
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# Inspiration There are variety of factors that contribute to *mental health* and *wellbeing*. For many students, the stresses of remote learning have taken a toll on their overall sense of peace. Our group created **Balance Pad** as a way to serve these needs. Thus, Balance Pads landing page gives users access to var...
## Inspiration **A lot of people have stressful things on their mind right now.** [According to a Boston University study, "depression symptom prevalence was more than 3-fold higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than before."](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146) Sometimes it’s hard to ...
## Inspiration College students are busy, juggling classes, research, extracurriculars and more. On top of that, creating a todo list and schedule can be overwhelming and stressful. Personally, we used Google Keep and Google Calendar to manage our tasks, but these tools require constant maintenance and force the sched...
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## Inspiration The inspiration of this project came from one of the sponsors in **HTN (Co:here)**. Their goal is to make AI/ML accessible to devs, which gave me the idea, that I can build a platform, where people who do not even know how to code can build their own Machine Learning models. Coding is a great skill to h...
## Inspiration As university students, we empathize with the struggle of paying off student loans and working tireless hours trying to complete schoolwork. Money spent on ordering food over the course of a week often becomes an afterthought during the midterm week where the last thing we want to spend our time on is m...
## Inspiration We wanted to build a technical app that is actually useful. Scott Forestall's talk at the opening ceremony really spoke to each of us, and we decided then to create something that would not only show off our technological skill but also actually be useful. Going to the doctor is inconvenient and not usu...
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## **What is Cointree?** Cointree is a platform where users get paid to go green. Because living more sustainably shouldn't be more expensive. In fact, we should be rewarded for living sustainably – and that's exactly what Cointree does. Cointree connects companies looking to offset carbon emissions with users looki...
## Inspiration People are increasingly aware of climate change but lack actionable steps. Everything in life has a carbon cost, but it's difficult to understand, measure, and mitigate. Information about carbon footprints of products is often inaccessible for the average consumer, and alternatives are time consuming to...
## Inspiration I wanted to create something that used openai image generation API in some away aswell as use my familiarity with python PYQT5 module to build the user interface ## What it does This app allows the user to enter several prompts, once the user is satisfied they can click generate and the images will ge...
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## What it does YapTrack is a real-time meeting guide that forces you to close the loop on all of your ideas ## Inspiration One of our team members spent 5 hours in a meeting just to MOVE SOME COLUMNS IN A DATABASE. The meeting should have been two hours, but it got stretched out because every time we proposed a sma...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project came from newfound research stating the capabilities of models to perform the work of data engineers and provide accurate tools for analysis. We realized that such work is impactful in various sectors, including finance, climate change, medical devices, and much more. We...
## Inspiration Over this past semester, Alp and I were in the same data science class together, and we were really interested in how data can be applied through various statistical methods. Wanting to utilize this knowledge in a real-world application, we decided to create a prediction model using machine learning. Th...
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## Inspiration *Mafia*, also known as *Werewolf*, is a classic in-person party game that university and high school students play regularly. It's been popularized by hit computer games such as Town of Salem and Epic Mafia that serve hundreds of thousands of players, but where these games go *wrong* is that they replac...
## Inspiration It's hard to believe we're nearly **a full year** into this awful pandemic. Two semesters of online school for students, hundreds of virtual meetings for employees, and the general monotony that is everyday life will make even Tom Hanks' character in *Groundhog Day* bored. Every Zoom session seems to be...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
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**Finding a problem** Education policy and infrastructure tend to neglect students with accessibility issues. They are oftentimes left on the backburner while funding and resources go into research and strengthening the existing curriculum. Thousands of college students struggle with taking notes in class due to variou...
## Inspiration 💡 With the introduction of online-based learning, a lot of video tutorials are being created for students and learners to gain knowledge. As much as the idea is excellent, there was also a constraint whereby the tutorials may contain long hours of content and in some cases, it is inaccessible to users ...
## Inspiration Level of heart beat is a primary indicator for the effectiveness of a workout, yet it is often unmeasured and untargeted. Brainstorming ways to stimulate our body for increased intensity, we realized that music often relates to physiological transition within an exercise, based on its bpm, pitch, decibe...
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## Inspiration IoT devices are extremely useful; however, they come at a high price. A key example of this is a smart fridge, which can cost thousands of dollars. Although many people can't afford this type of luxury, they can still greatly benefit from it. A smart fridge can eliminate food waste by keeping an invento...
## Inspiration How many clicks does it take to upload a file to Google Drive? TEN CLICKS. How many clicks does it take for PUT? **TWO** **(that's 1/5th the amount of clicks)**. ## What it does Like the name, PUT is just as clean and concise. PUT is a storage universe designed for maximum upload efficiency, reliabili...
# grocery\_smart Grocery\_Smart was created to solve a common problem that second-year students face when moving into their first home. We never have anything to eat and all those vegetables we keep buying simply gets left in the fridge to go bad! Grocery\_Smart is an IoT device that can turn any fridge into a smart f...
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## Inspiration We were inspired to reduce the amount of time it takes to seek medical attention. By directing patients immediately to a doctor specific to their needs, one may reduce the wait time commonly associated with seeking medical aid. ## What it does Destination Doc asks a user how they are feeling at which ...
## 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...
## Inspiration What would you do with 22 hours of your time? I could explore all of Ottawa - from sunrise at parliament, to lunch at Shawarma palace, and end the night at our favourite pub, Heart and Crown! But imagine you hurt your ankle and go to the ER. You're gonna spend that entire 22 hours in the waiting room, ...
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## Inspiration To introduce the most impartial and ensured form of voting submission in response to controversial democratic electoral polling following the 2018 US midterm elections. This event involved several encircling clauses of doubt and questioned authenticity of results by citizen voters. This propelled the id...
## 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...
## Ark Platform for an IoT powered Local Currency ## Problem: Many rural communities in America have been underinvested in our modern age. Even urban areas such as Detroit MI, and Scranton PA, have been left behind as their local economies struggle to reach a critical mass from which to grow. This underinvestment has...
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## The beginning We had always been fascinated by the incredibly varied talents that people could use for good. Serena had worked at a nonprofit, and witnessed firsthand how the volunteers that they found were eager to contribute their skills and knowledge for the cause. There was a glaring problem, though: not enough...
## Inspiration: Many people that we know want to get more involved in the community but don't have the time for regular commitments. Furthermore, many volunteer projects require an extensive application, and applications for different organizations vary so it can be a time-consuming and discouraging process. We wanted ...
## Inspiration Tinder but Volunteering ## What it does Connects people to volunteering organizations. Makes volunteering fun, easy and social ## How we built it react for web and react native ## Challenges we ran into So MANY ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Getting a really solid idea and a decent UI #...
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## Inspiration Throughout my life, the news has been littered with stories of bridges collapsing and infrastructure decaying all across the continent. You have probably seen them too. The quality of our infrastructure is a major challenge which smart cities could address. But did you know that repairing and replacing...
## Inspiration We were intriguied by the City of London's Open Data portal and wanted to see what we could do with it. We also wanted to give back to the city, which houses UWO and Hack Western, as well as many of our friends. With The London Bridge, we aim to enable communication between the community and its citizen...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was Find My by Apple. It allows you to track your Apple devices and see them on a map giving you relevant information such as last time pinged, distance, etc. ## What it does Picks up signals from beacons using the Eddystone protocol. Using this data, it will display the beacon's possi...
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# My Eyes Helping dyslectics read by using vision and text-to-speech. ## Mission Statement Dyslexia is a reading disability that affects 5% of the population. Individuals with dyslexia have difficulty decoding written word with speed and accuracy. To help those afflicted with dyslexia, many schools in BC provide add...
## 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 wanted to find a way to make transit data more accessible to the public as well as provide fun insights into their transit activity. As we've seen in Spotify Wrapped, people love seeing data about themselves. In addition, we wanted to develop a tool to help city organizers make data-driven decisions ...
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## Inspiration With the frequency of climate disasters occurring as a result of global warming, droughts are becoming more common across the country. One of our members, as a California native, has brought up their desire to keep plants in their home while not wasting the precious resource of water in the process. Rea...
## Inspiration Jeremy, one of our group members, always buys new house plants with excitement and confidence that he will take care of them this time.. He unfortunately disregards his plant every time, though, and lets it die within three weeks. We decided to give our plant a persona, and give him frequent reminders w...
## Inspiration Every year roughly 25% of recyclable material is not able to be recycled due to contamination. We set out to reduce the amount of things that are needlessly sent to the landfill by reducing how much people put the wrong things into recycling bins (i.e. no coffee cups). ## What it does This project is ...
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## Inspiration According to Statistics Canada, nearly 48,000 children are living in foster care. In the United States, there are ten times as many. Teenagers aged 14-17 are the most at risk of aging out of the system without being adopted. Many choose to opt-out when they turn 18. At that age, most youths like our tea...
## 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 While the use cases for web3 expand every day from healthcare to polling systems, we wanted to explore the implementation of web3 in the entertainment sector. As the world of cryptocurrency expands, people would want to play games using crypto and win crypto. ## What it does The user gets to draw a pi...
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## Inspiration Everyone loves to eat. But whether you’re a college student, a fitness enthusiast trying to supplement your gains, or have dietary restrictions, it can be hard to come up with meal ideas. LetMeCook is an innovative computer vision-powered web application that combines a scan of a user’s fridge or cupboa...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
## Inspiration An individual living in Canada wastes approximately 183 kilograms of solid food per year. This equates to $35 billion worth of food. A study that asked why so much food is wasted illustrated that about 57% thought that their food goes bad too quickly, while another 44% of people say the food is past the...
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## Inspiration My friend Pablo used to throw me ball when playing beer pong, he moved away so i replaced him with a much better robot. ## What it does it tosses you a ping pong ball right when you need, you just have to show it your hand. ## How we built it With love sweat tears and lots of energy drink. ## Chall...
## Inspiration We wanted to make the interactions with our computers more intuitive while giving people with special needs more options to navigate in the digital world. With the digital landscape around us evolving, we got inspired by scenes in movies featuring Tony Stark, where he interacts with computers within his...
## Inspiration Our project was inspired by the age old, famously known prisoner's dilemma. A fairly simple problem to understand, yet a difficult one to come up with a solution to. Individuals can either defect or cooperate, however they must come to a decision based on what they believe the other prisoner will do. If...
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## Inspiration: ChatTeach.io was inspired by the need for a more personalized and interactive learning experience. As college students, something we have all faced is the dreaded two-hour lecture video, where it is quite literally impossible to pay attention completely and to not get distracted. This oftentimes leads ...
Driven by a shared passion for leveraging AI in education, our team of four embarked on a hackathon journey to revolutionize how learners access information. We envisioned a world where lengthy textbooks, lectures, and videos could be transformed into concise, engaging learning experiences. Pooling our diverse skill s...
## Inspiration We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem. ## What ...
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# Flash Computer Vision® ### Computer Vision for the World Github: <https://github.com/AidanAbd/MA-3> Try it Out: <http://flash-cv.com> ## Inspiration Over the last century, computers have gained superhuman capabilities in computer vision. Unfortunately, these capabilities are not yet empowering everyday people bec...
## Inspiration Every musician knows that moment of confusion, that painful silence as onlookers shuffle awkward as you frantically turn the page of the sheet music in front of you. While large solo performances may have people in charge of turning pages, for larger scale ensemble works this obviously proves impractica...
## Inspiration Students often do not have a financial background and want to begin learning about finance, but the sheer amount of resources that exist online make it difficult to know which articles are good for people to read. Thus we thought the best way to tackle this problem was to use a machine learning techniqu...
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## Inspiration Nothing quite accomplishes daily productivity like the traditional todo-list. Each task displayed in order, ready to be ticked off one by one. However, this can usually be an isolating process rather than a collaborative one. TODOTogether hopes to bring a company culture of collaboration and teamwork do...
## Inspiration Research shows that maximum people face mental or physical health problems due to their unhealthy daily diet or ignored symptoms at the early stages. This app will help you track your diet and your symptoms daily and provide recommendations to provide you with an overall healthy diet. We were inspired b...
## 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 Elementary school kids are very savvy with searching via Google, and while sometimes the content returned are relevant, they may not be at a suitable reading level when the first search results talks about something like phytochemicals or pharmacology. Is there a way to assess whether links in a search ...
## Inspiration We wanted to tackle a problem that impacts a large demographic of people. After research, we learned that 1 in 10 people suffer from dyslexia and 5-20% of people suffer from dysgraphia. These neurological disorders go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed often leading to these individuals constantly struggling t...
## Inspiration Coming from South Texas, two of the team members saw ESL (English as a Second Language) students being denied of a proper education. Our team created a tool to break down language barriers that traditionally perpetuate socioeconomic cycles of poverty by providing detailed explanations about word problem...
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## Inspiration Herpes Simplex Virus-2 (HSV-2) is the cause of Genital Herpes, a lifelong and contagious disease characterized by recurring painful and fluid-filled sores. Transmission occurs through contact with fluids from the sores of the infected person during oral, anal, and vaginal sex; transmission can occur in ...
## Inspiration How many times have you forgotten to take your medication and damned yourself for it? It has happened to us all, with different consequences. Indeed, missing out on a single pill can, for some of us, throw an entire treatment process out the window. Being able to keep track of our prescriptions is key i...
## Inspiration By 2050,16% of the the Global Population will be the elderly. Around 1.5 billlion people will be above the age of 65. Professionals will not be able to cope up with this increased demand for quality healthcare. Many elders don't get in-time treatment, and emergency is always a fear for the children. Art...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the challenge proposed by Varient, a data aggregation platform that connects people with similar mutations together to help doctors and users. ## What it does Our application works by allowing the user to upload an image file. The image is then sent to Google Cloud’s Document...
## Inspiration Data is becoming increasingly prevalent in every field, and bioinformatics is ripe for innovation in data acquisition with no insights being derived from experiments daily, a streamline way to query and use this data for analysis will be very important in the future of personalized cancer research. ## ...
## Inspiration We got the idea when we ask ourselves the question: how can we better make use of the large amounts of data in the world to meet people's privacy and healthcare needs? We all recall being at the doctor's office and seeing the doctor write long written notes. We then came up with a potentially impactful ...
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## Inspiration College students are busy, juggling classes, research, extracurriculars and more. On top of that, creating a todo list and schedule can be overwhelming and stressful. Personally, we used Google Keep and Google Calendar to manage our tasks, but these tools require constant maintenance and force the sched...
# Course Connection ## Inspiration College is often heralded as a defining time period to explore interests, define beliefs, and establish lifelong friendships. However the vibrant campus life has recently become endangered as it is becoming easier than ever for students to become disconnected. The previously guarant...
## Introducing Nuisance ### Inspiration When prompted with the concept of **Useless Inventions**, and the slight delay from procrastinating the brainstorming process of our idea, we suddenly felt very motivated to make a little friend to help us. Introducing **Nuisance**. A (not so friendly) Bot that will sense when ...
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## Inspiration I know that times have been tough for local restaurant owners, and so I set out to create SeeFood, a project that could help them engage with potential customers. ## What it does SeeFood is a REST API that stores and shares data about restaurants. When restaurant owners create meals on SeeFood, a qr c...
**Inspiration** Our inspiration behind dineAR was our frustration of not being able to see our food before ordering at a restaurant. Too many times have we gone to a restaurant and ordered something we ended up not liking because we had no idea what it was or looked like based on the vague menu descriptions. To preven...
# imHungry ## Inspiration As Berkeley students we are always prioritizing our work over our health! Students often don't have as much time to go buy food. Why not pick a food for other students while buying your own food and make a quick buck? Or perhaps, place an order with a student who was already planning to head...
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## Inspiration The expense behavior of the user, especially in the age group of 15-29, is towards spending unreasonably amount in unnecessary stuff. So we want them to have a better financial life, and help them understand their expenses better, and guide them towards investing that money into stocks instead. ## What...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
## Inspiration We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin...
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## Inspiration While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de...
## 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 Studies show that drawing, coloring, and other art-making activities can help people express themselves artistically and explore their art's psychological and emotional undertones [1]. Before this project, many members of our team had already caught on to the stress-relieving capabilities of art-centere...
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## Inspiration One of the biggest roadblocks during disaster relief is reestablishing the first line of communication between community members and emergency response personnel. Whether it is the aftermath of a hurricane devastating a community or searching for individuals in the backcountry, communication is the key ...
## Inspiration The three of us love lifting at the gym. We always see apps that track cardio fitness but haven't found anything that tracks lifting exercises in real-time. Often times when lifting, people tend to employ poor form leading to gym injuries which could have been avoided by being proactive. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration In light of the ongoing global conflict between war-torn countries, many civilians face hardships. Recognizing these challenges, LifeLine Aid was inspired to direct vulnerable groups to essential medical care, health services, shelter, food and water assistance, and other deprivation relief. ## What it...
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## Inspiration Our team decided to analyze the current COVID-19 testing procedures in our region. Then, we found that residents were spending a disproportionate amount of time waiting in line at local health centers to get tested for COVID-19. Additionally, they barely respected social distancing guidelines due to the...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our hackathon idea stemmed from an experience observed by one of our team members who had recently been to the hospital. They noticed the numerous amount of staff required at every entrance to ensure that patients and visitors had their masks on properly, as well as asking COVID-19 s...
## Inspiration Our solution was named on remembrance of Mother Teresa ## What it does Robotic technology to assist nurses and doctors in medicine delivery, patient handling across the hospital, including ICU’s. We are planning to build an app in Low code/No code that will help the covid patients to scan themselves a...
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## Inspiration We wanted to leverage machine learning to help lenders to Kiva learn where their money could make the greatest impact. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, that works with microfinance institutions on five continents to provide loans to people without access to...
## 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...
#### 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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## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ...
## Inspiration We’re a team of **developers** and **hackers** who love tinkering with new technologies. Obviously, this means that we have been super excited about building projects in the ML space, especially applications involving LLMs. However, we realized two crucial issues with using LLMs in production applicatio...
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## Inspiration In one calendar year, approximately 1 in 6 children are sexually victimized within the United States. Unfortunately, technology has enabling instant messaging and social media has been identified as a large source of where these grave events trace back. With this information, we knew that helping the ef...
## Inspiration: The inspiration for this project was finding a way to incentivize healthy activity. While the watch shows people data like steps taken and calories burned, that alone doesn't encourage many people to exercise. By making the app, we hope to make exercise into a game that people look forward to doing rat...
## Inspiration CereStyle was born out of a personal challenge that all of us have faced—struggling to choose clothes that truly complement our looks and define our fashion sense. We often found ourselves unsure of what colors suited us best, leading to a lack of confidence in our wardrobe choices. In one of our classe...
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## Inspiration We were really excited to hear about the self-driving bus Olli using IBM's Watson. However, one of our grandfather's is rather forgetful due to his dementia, and because of this would often forget things on a bus if he went alone. Memory issues like this would prevent him, and many people like him, from...
## Inspiration There are approximately **10 million** Americans who suffer from visual impairment, and over **5 million Americans** suffer from Alzheimer's dementia. This weekend our team decided to help those who were not as fortunate. We wanted to utilize technology to create a positive impact on their quality of li...
## Inspiration Metaverse, vision pro, spatial video. It’s no doubt that 3D content is the future. But how can I enjoy or make 3d content without spending over 3K? Or strapping massive goggles to my head? Let's be real, wearing a 3d vision pro while recording your child's birthday party is pretty [dystopian.](https://y...
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## Inspiration In the time of corona, it can be great to interact with friends over group video chat, and especially to play games. Similarly to Cards Against Humanity or other collaborative games, we thought it would be great to implement Mafia in a virtual setting. ## What it does Mafia, or variants like One Night...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind MyStock derives from our own personal experience and views on investing. The both of us look to invest in stocks in the future, however we don't know much about the investing world and the stock market. We've also noticed that some of our family and friends are in similar situatio...
## Inspiration We were inspired by websites such as backyard.co which allow users to have video chats and play various games together. However one of the main issues with websites such as these or any video chat rooms such as zoom is that people are reluctant to put on their video. So to combat this issue, we wanted t...
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## Inspiration We wanted to be able to connect with mentors. There are very few opportunities to do that outside of LinkedIn where many of the mentors are in a foreign field to our interests'. ## What it does A networking website that connects mentors with mentees. It uses a weighted matching algorithm based on ment...
## 💡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...
# Tender - watch our video! ## Inspiration Online dating is frustrating. This because 1) dating strangers is overrated — we are looking in the wrong place and 2) current algorithms value quantity over quality. There are no apps that match people within your network. This is where Tender comes in. ## What it does Fi...
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## Inspiration Documenting and analyzing a crime scene is very tedious and difficult task. There are many things that hinder a crime scene investigator to properly do their job. First off, photographs are a common method to document pieces of evidence in a crime. However, often times, disjointed pieces of imagery do ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project mainly stems from past as well as recent events involving sexual harassment, robbery, violence and several other forms of misconduct. The rate at which these misconducts happen is enormously high all over the world, and as students we receive 2-3 emails per day on an aver...
## Inspiration With COVID-19, the world has been forced to stay safe inside their homes and avoid social contact, a measure which has taken a noticeable toll on everyone’s mental well being. With All of the Lights, individuals can connect in new and fun ways with products that they likely already own - RGB light strip...
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## Inspiration As the world progresses into the digital age, there is a huge simultaneous focus on creating various sources of clean energy that is sustainable and affordable. Unfortunately, there is minimal focus on ways to sustain the increasingly rapid production of energy. Energy is wasted everyday as utility comp...
## Inspiration and what it does As smart as our homes (or offices) become, they do not fully account for the larger patterns in electricity grids and weather systems. their environments. They still waste energy cooling empty buildings, or waste money by purchasing electricity during peak periods. Our project, The COOL...
## 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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## 💡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 While a member of my team was conducting research at UCSF, he noticed a family partaking in a beautiful, albeit archaic, practice. They gave their grandfather access to a google doc, where each family member would write down the memories that they have with him. Nearly every day, the grandfather would s...
## 💡 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 Since the arrival of text messaging into the modern day world, users have had a love hate relationship with this novel form of communication. Instant contact with those you love at the cost of losing an entire facet of conversation - emotion. However, one group of individuals has been affected by this m...
## Inspiration We were inspired to build Loki to illustrate the plausibility of social media platforms tracking user emotions to manipulate the content (and advertisements) that they view. ## What it does Loki presents a news feed to the user much like other popular social networking apps. However, in the background...
## Inspiration make access to everyday therapy faster, cheaper (free), and easier while keeping your identity anonymous. ## What it does hippo checks up on you every day, records how you are feeling in an unintrusive manner throughout the conversation, analyzes the emotions behind your language and patterns in your ...
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