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## Virality Pro: 95% reduced content production costs, 2.5x rate of going viral, 4 high ticket clients
We’re already helping companies go viral on instagram & TikTok, slash the need for large ad spend, and propel unparalleled growth at a 20x lower price.
## The problem: growing a company is **HARD and EXPENSIVE**
He... | ## Inspiration
Nowadays, the payment for knowledge has become more acceptable by the public, and people are more willing to pay to these truly insightful, cuttting edge, and well-stuctured knowledge or curriculum. However, current centalized video content production platforms (like YouTube, Udemy, etc.) take too much ... | ## Inspiration
As students, we get into daily routines. Here are two of them: walking from our classes and waking up to a Cal WarnMe email from a tragedy occurring right outside our building. This is not the way we envisioned our new home, and we, therefore, sought a solution to mitigate this topical problem. We were ... | winning |
## Inspiration
As part of my school's creative writing club, we sometimes play some writing games to help our creativity flow, and CollaboWrite lets us participate in one of my favourites. Starting with a prompt, each user gets to write a single sentence of a story. When they've finished a sentence, control gets passe... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind FightBite originated from the Brave Wilderness youtube channel, particularly the [Bites and Stings series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJHJ0i86ts&list=PLbfmhGxamZ83v9OKDa4eV_IlY2W-PLK6X). When watching the series, we were terrified by the amount of destruction that could be c... | ## Inspiration
Why are there so few women in STEM? How can we promote female empowerment within STEM? As two of us are women, we have personally faced misogyny within the tech community--from being told women aren't fit for certain responsibilities, to our accomplishments being undermined, we wanted to diminish gender... | losing |
## Inspiration
Music is a universal language, and we recognized Spotify wrapped to be one of the most anticipated times of the year. Realizing that people have an interest in learning about their own music taste, we created ***verses*** to not only allow people to quiz themselves on their musical interests, but also q... | ## Inspiration
Music has become a crucial part of people's lives, and they want customized playlists to fit their mood and surroundings. This is especially true for drivers who use music entertain themselves on their journey and to stay alert.
Based off of personal experience and feedback from our peers, we realized t... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make a simple product that sharpens blurry images without a lot of code! This could be used as a preprocessing step for image recognition or a variety of other image processing tasks. It can also be used as a standalone product to enhance old images.
## What it does
Our product takes blur... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project came from my passion for decentralized technology.
One particular niche of decentralization
I am particularly fond of is NFT's and how they
can become a great income stream for artists.
With the theme of the hackathon being
exploration and showing a picture of a rocket
... | ## Inspiration
Members of our team know multiple people who suffer from permanent or partial paralysis. We wanted to build something that could be fun to develop and use, but at the same time make a real impact in people's everyday lives. We also wanted to make an affordable solution, as most solutions to paralysis co... | [Link to GitHub](https://github.com/Interlink-McHacks)
## Inspiration
We realized that a major challenge for us in developing remotely (thank you COVID!) was that sharing things on localhost was very difficult and that it wasn't always possible to port forward or host on a remote server. For example, if you are behin... | winning |
# Gait @ TreeHacks 2016
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Diagnosing walking disorders with accelerome... | ## What inspired you?
The inspiration behind this project came from my grandmother, who has struggled with poor vision for years. Growing up, I witnessed firsthand how her limited sight made daily tasks and walking in unfamiliar environments increasingly difficult for her. I remember one specific instance when she tri... | ## Inspiration
With all of us playing different sports, we know that the most important part of movement starts at the base: the feet. For athletes and those with movement impairments alike, having more data on how the feet move (namely how fast they move) can give valuable insights into enhancing movement. We develop... | partial |
## Inspiration
For a manager of a small business -- be it a store, restaurant, gym, or even a movie theater -- improving the customer experience and understand what's going on is tremendously important. Having access to analytics of when people are entering the building, what areas they're spending time at, and what c... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind LeafHack stems from a shared passion for sustainability and a desire to empower individuals to take control of their food sources. Witnessing the rising grocery costs and the environmental impact of conventional agriculture, we were motivated to create a solution that not only add... | ## Inspiration
A majority of critical data is streaming data. One such example is the performance of factory machines over time. We wanted to devise a method in order to analyze these machines for potential performance errors and to visualize their performance over time. This would tremendously help cut business costs... | winning |
## Inspiration
Insightful Meetings is inspired by the numerous virtual meetings transpired by current social distancing measures and the lack of attention of participants during meetings (missing information or forgetting to take notes). With the constant and increasing usage of video communication services, like Zoom... | ## Inspiration
One of our favorite content creators recently had their content demonetized by YouTube. These creators struggle day and night to create the best content for their fans, and depend on these streams of revenue to continue creating content. However, in some scenarios such as these, creators become disenfra... | ## Inspiration
The post-COVID era has increased the number of in-person events and need for public speaking. However, more individuals are anxious to publicly articulate their ideas, whether this be through a presentation for a class, a technical workshop, or preparing for their next interview. It is often difficult f... | losing |
## A cute game made in Pygame. Catch the apples to save up for hibernation!
## Apples fall catch in basket using A/S keys to move
## Python, using the pygame libraries
## We hate GIMP
## It works!!!!!
## Coordinating people is more difficult than we thought
## What's next for Hibernation Frenzy. Difficulties, mus... | ## Inspiration
The project draws its inspiration from the enchanting world of Harry Potter, specifically the living paintings that add a magical touch to the walls of Hogwarts. This sparked the idea to transform mundane home assistants into something more interactive and lively. The goal was to make everyday interacti... | ## Inspiration
Every project aims to solve a problem, and to solve people's concerns. When we walk into a restaurant, we are so concerned that not many photos are printed on the menu. However, we are always eager to find out what a food looks like. Surprisingly, including a nice-looking picture alongside a food item i... | losing |
## Inspiration
We decided to create Squiz in desire to address the struggles students face in revision, such as difficulty in digesting extensive study materials, and lack of opportunities to test for their understanding on the course topics. Recognizing the potential of ChatGPT, we aimed at creating a web app that si... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project stems from the well-established effectiveness of focusing on one task at a time, as opposed to multitasking. In today's era of online learning, students often find themselves navigating through various sources like lectures, articles, and notes, all while striving to abs... | ## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | losing |
## Inspiration
Enabling Accessible Transportation for Those with Disabilities
AccessRide is a cutting-edge website created to transform the transportation experience for those with impairments. We want to offer a welcoming, trustworthy, and accommodating ride-hailing service that is suited to the particular requiremen... | ## Off The Grid
Super awesome offline, peer-to-peer, real-time canvas collaboration iOS app
# Inspiration
Most people around the world will experience limited or no Internet access at times during their daily lives. We could be underground (on the subway), flying on an airplane, or simply be living in areas where In... | ## Inspiration
What is the point of career fairs if recruiters tell potential candidates to just apply online, often with no response back? Recruiters are sick of the old-fashioned system of paper-copy resumes, in which they must manually scan each application, and individually enter data into their recruitment databa... | winning |
## Inspiration
GET RICH QUICK!
## What it does
Do you want to get rich? Are you tired of the man holding you down? Then, WeakLink.Ai is for you! Our app comes equipped with predictive software to suggest the most beneficial stocks to buy based off your preferences. Simply said, a personal stock broker in your pocket... | ## ✨ 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 have to make a lot of decisions, all the time- whether it's choosing your next hackathon project idea, texting your ex or not, writing an argumentative essay, or settling a debate. Sometimes, you need the cold hard truth. Sometimes, you need someone to feed into your delusions. But sometimes, you nee... | partial |
# SmartKart
A IoT shopping cart that follows you around combined with a cloud base Point of Sale and Store Management system. Provides a comprehensive solution to eliminate lineups in retail stores, engage with customers without being intrusive and a platform to implement detailed customer analytics.
Featured by nwHa... | ## 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... | # nwhacks\_protestreport
This website takes information about a recent protest and searches twitter for relevant tweets before and afterwards, then performs sentiment analysis using [VADER](https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment) to give you info about the effect of your protest on public opinion. | winning |
## Inspiration
The biggest irony today is despite the advent of the internet, students and adults are more oblivious than ever to world events, and one can easily understand why. Of course, Facebook, YouTube, and League will be more interesting than reading Huffington Post; coupled with the empirical decrease in the a... | ## Inspiration
We're 4 college freshmen that were expecting new experiences with interactive and engaging professors in college; however, COVID-19 threw a wrench in that (and a lot of other plans). As all of us are currently learning online through various video lecture platforms, we found out that these lectures some... | ## Inspiration
Managing tasks can be a challenge for many, particularly those with ADHD, this process can feel overwhelming, making it hard to stay on top of everything. For us, this struggle was all too familiar. As students who live with ADHD, we often found traditional task management tools lacking. They didn’t off... | winning |
## Inspiration
Wanted to create something fun that would be a good use of Snapchat's SnapKit! Did not get to it, but the idea was sharing quotes and good reads could be pretty neat between friends - recommending novels is as easy as using the app which interfaces directly into Snapchat! It could also become kind of a ... | ## Inspiration
Over the past 30 years, the percentage American adults who read literature has dropped about 14%. We found our inspiration. The issue we discovered is that due to the rise of modern technologies, movies and other films are more captivating than reading a boring book. We wanted to change that.
## What i... | ## Inspiration
Despite it being the legal right of students to be included in the classroom, students with learning disabilities are often left out.
To include students with learning disabilities, teachers have to create custom assignments based on student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that integrate with the ... | partial |
# Histovibes - A Journey Through Time
## Inspiration
The inspiration for Histovibes arose from a shared yearning within our team for a transformative and engaging history education experience. As enthusiasts of the past, we often found traditional textbooks lacking in both interactivity and a modern touch. Drawing on... | ## Inspiration
As we began thinking about potential projects to make, we realized that there was no real immersive way to speak to those that have impacted the world in a major way. It is just not as fun to look up Wikipedia articles and simply read the information that is presented there, especially for the attention... | **Inspiration**
The inspiration behind Block Touch comes from the desire to create an interactive and immersive experience for users by leveraging the power of Python computer vision. We aim to provide a unique and intuitive way for users to navigate and interact with a simulated world, using their hand movements to pl... | losing |
## Inspiration
All three teammates had independently converged on an idea of glasses with subtitles for the world around you. After we realized the impracticality of the idea (how could you read subtitles an inch from your eye without technology that we didn't have access to?) we flipped it around: instead of subtitle... | ## Inspiration
As first year university students, attending university lectures has been a frightening experience. Much different than how it is in high school, with a class of thousands of students, it’s much too easy to lose focus in lectures. One bad night of sleep can lead to valuable information lost and while on... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our team identified two intertwined health problems in developing countries:
1) Lack of easy-to-obtain medical advice due to economic, social and geographic problems, and
2) Difficulty of public health data collection in rural communities.
This weekend, we built SMS Doc, a single platform to help sol... | ## Inspiration
While we were brainstorming for ideas, we realized that two of our teammates are international students from India also from the University of Waterloo. Their inspiration to create this project was based on what they had seen in real life. Noticing how impactful access to proper healthcare can be, and h... | ## 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, ... | winning |
# PotholePal
## Pothole Filling Robot - UofTHacks VI
This repo is meant to enable the Pothole Pal proof of concept (POC) to detect changes in elevation on the road using an ultrasonic sensor thereby detecting potholes. This POC is to demonstrate the ability for a car or autonomous vehicle to drive over a surface and ... | ## Inspiration
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | ## Inspiration
We noticed one of the tracks involved creating a better environment for cities through the use of technology, also known as making our cities 'smarter.' We observed in places like Boston & Cambridge, there are many intersections with unsafe areas for pedestrians and drivers. **Furthermore, 50% of all ac... | winning |
## Not All Backs are Packed: An Origin Story (Inspiration)
A backpack is an extremely simple, and yet ubiquitous item. We want to take the backpack into the future without sacrificing the simplicity and functionality.
## The Got Your Back, Pack: **U N P A C K E D** (What's it made of)
GPS Location services,
9000 mAH... | ## Inspiration
2 days before flying to Hack the North, Darryl forgot his keys and spent the better part of an afternoon retracing his steps to find it- But what if there was a personal assistant that remembered everything for you? Memories should be made easier with the technologies we have today.
## What it does
A ... | ## Inspiration:
As a group of 4 people who met each other for the first time, we saw this event as an inspiring opportunity to learn new technology and face challenges that we were wholly unfamiliar with. Although intuitive when combined, every feature of this project was a distant puzzle piece of our minds that has b... | winning |
# Workchain - The decentralized on-demand workforce
PennApps XVIII
### Summary
There are millions of people who are willing and seeking work but can’t find the opportunities. Thousands of tech companies want to access an on-demand workforce where individuals can perform simple human-intelligence tasks (HIT) for the ... | # Bull Rider
## Inspiration
In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, many users find themselves overwhelmed by the complexity of managing digital assets. We were inspired to create **Bull Rider** after observing the steep learning curve faced by newcomers to the Sui blockchain ecosystem. Our go... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
We've all had technical interviews to prepare for. It's tough even on the best of days. In the end, success comes from consistency.
## What it does
With Tavern, you don't have to go at it alone. Algorithm challenges are now more like your favourite roleplaying game than interview preparation. Each day... | ## 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.... | ## Inspiration ✨
Seeing friends' lives being ruined through **unhealthy** attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the **biggest** negative effects of video games.
## What it does 🍎
YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using... | partial |
## Inspiration
We got inspired by Flash Sonar (a mathod that helps peopla to see via sound waves) but it took months to learn so We developed Techno Sonar a guide for blind people.
## What it does
Uses ultrasonic sensors to detect objects and inform the user based on the size and distance of the object
If object is ... | Got tech is-shoes?(Issues) we solve them for you : P
## Inspiration
Recognizing the shortage of advanced technology for individuals with visual impairments, we want to create a project that will benefit this community and create more inclusive and user-friendly innovations.
We noticed that the more advanced tech for... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
RL solutions presented us with a problem: how might we encourage patients to maintain diet and nutrition plans given by their healthcare provider? Our group realized that having a way to track your progress is vital to staying healthy.
## What it does
#EatingGoals provides the doctor and user a platfo... | ## Inspiration
My inspiring was really just my daily life. I use apps like my fitness pal and libre link to keep track of all these things but I feel like it doesn't paint the whole picture for someone with my condition. I'm really making this app for people like myself who have a challenging time dealing with diabete... | ## Inspiration
Social media today is focused on connecting users who share similar friend circles and interests. The recommendations that show up on users' feeds are geared towards their current beliefs, leading to increasingly polarized iterations of the information in the hopes of keeping them online for extended pe... | losing |
## Inspiration
Social media has quickly become the primary source of news for many around the world and the prevalence of fake news has grown with it. With a range of recent natural disasters and the spread of Coronavirus(COVID-19) increasing the stakes of acting on all available information, more and more individuals... | ## Inspiration:
The app was born from the need to respond to global crises like the ongoing wars in Palestine, Ukraine, and Myanmar. Which have made the importance of real-time, location-based threat awareness more critical than ever.
While these conflicts are often headline news, people living far from the conflict z... | ## Inspiration
Utilize our passion for mobile applications and UI/UX to present information in an easy to understand way.
## What it does
Queries Vitech's API and generates graph based off result.
## How we built it
Caffeine. Swift. iOS. Network calls. Charts.io library. Throw in some dictionaries and arrays. Spri... | losing |
## Inspiration
Old fashion scrapbooks where you are able to gather photos, record your feelings from that moment, and decorate with a fun theme!
## What it does
Allows you to record moments in your life and view them in a chronological timeline.
## How we built it
We used Kintone for our backend, React + Vite as o... | # Healora
## Background
**Why should nurses and doctors have to rely solely on manual inputs when modern healthcare technology has so much more potential?**
In hospitals and healthcare settings, **medical professionals are often overwhelmed**, managing complex workflows, multiple patients, and endless data inputs, o... | ## Inspiration
Our friend Chris is a pretty epic guitarist. So we made C.H.R.I.S. to help him and guitar players like him practice and play better.
## What it does
C.H.R.I.S. takes in a guitar tab (as a .txt file) and BPM (integer value) specified by the user, and presents the tab to them as they play through it. Th... | partial |
## Inspiration
Every day, more than 130 people in the United States alone die from an overdose of opioids, which includes prescription painkillers and other addictive drugs. The rate of opioid abuse has been rising steadily since the 1990s and has developed into a serious public health problem since. Roughly 21-29 per... | ## Inspiration
Every member of our team has needed medicine in the middle of the night, and realized that we’d run out. This might be okay for over-the-counter medicine like Tylenol, but for prescription medicines - especially those that offer critical, life-saving functionalities and must be taken on time - this is a... | 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 ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Old technology always had a certain place in our hearts. It is facinating to see such old and simple machines produce such complex results. That's why we wanted to create our own emulator of an 8-bit computer: to learn and explore this topic and also to make it accessible to others through this learning... | ## Inspiration
Driven by the harrowing reality that civilians comprised a staggering 95% of all cluster munition casualties in 2022, we were impassioned to devise a solution that could confront this pressing humanitarian crisis head-on. With up to 40% of these munitions failing to explode upon impact, the threat to ci... | ## Inspiration
Our team firmly believes that a hackathon is the perfect opportunity to learn technical skills while having fun. Especially because of the hardware focus that MakeUofT provides, we decided to create a game! This electrifying project places two players' minds to the test, working together to solve variou... | partial |
## Inspiration
The Language Barrier is a huge factor that determines the efficacy of communication in a new language, not to mention the mental health impact and social exclusion that comes with not being able to effectively communicate in a foreign language. We hoped to create a Google Chrome extension that can lever... | ## Inspiration
Nearly 10% of all children experience speech-related disorders. But speech therapy can cost more than $31,000 each year. What if there was a simple, accessible, and affordable alternative to practicing speech/pronunciation?
## What it does
SpeechMe provides an intuitive way to practice speech without ... | ## Inspiration
Since the beginning of the hackathon, all of us were interested in building something related to helping the community. Initially we began with the idea of a trash bot, but quickly realized the scope of the project would make it unrealistic. We eventually decided to work on a project that would help eas... | losing |
## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | ## 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
All three members of the team have had personal experiences with people on the autism spectrum, and seen firsthand their struggles with deciphering emotions. With the recent coronavirus pandemic, the use of online conference programs such as Zoom have exacerbated the issue of reading emotional cues. Thi... | winning |
## 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
Civic authorities are constantly working to improve transport for their cities. Their efforts, however, often lack an important piece: access to accurate data about how current transport systems are used. A better understanding of how people commute, share rides, and take public transport today will inf... | ## Inspiration
During these trying times, the pandemic impacted many people by isolating them in their homes. People are not able to socialize like they used to and find people they can relate with.
For example, students who are transitioning to college or a new school where they don’t know anyone. Matcher aims to imp... | partial |
## Inspiration
Given the recent news developments surrounding *GameStop stocks* and the phenomenon of small shareholder-based short-squeezing, we were really interested in *the stock market* and why Wall Street was turned upside down. Unfortunately, *in school, there aren't a lot of opportunities to learn about how st... | ## Inspiration
A couple weeks ago, we went to play bingo. The more elderly participants were lightning quick, even with many bingo cards in front of them. Once, we won one of the rounds but we were too slow to notice! Not to be outdone, we wanted to make a robot that could beat any person at bingo.
## What it does
T... | ## Inspiration
While searching for ideas, our team came across an ECG dataset that was classified and labeled into categories for normal and abnormal patterns. While examining the abnormal patterns, it was observed that most seizure patterns had a small window that transitioned from a typical pattern to a seizure patt... | losing |
## 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... | # Don't Dis My Ability
## 💡 Inspiration
Post pandemic has seen a tremendous surge in people's inclination towards solo traveling and "workstation" and the era of solo traveling has also experienced a rise in specially-abled solo travelers stepping out and exploring the world. In researching the solo travel experienc... | ## Inspiration
One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss.
Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe... | partial |
## Inspiration
The idea for 🐌 Snail's Pace came halfway through the Hackathon, in response to a 🐌 bug that we had been struggling with during our initial project. Initially, we aimed to create an AR navigation app that centered around deploying AR beacons at the user's destination. However, we were unable to get our... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to build something to support people in their fitness goals while making the experience fun and adventurous! The idea behind this app was to create a real-life side-scrolling game that would emulate the user’s every step which is reflected in the game. This would contribute to their overall we... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever been on a ferris wheel and wondering what each building in your sight is? Have you ever ran into a super cool event when traveling but you just can't figure out what it is about because every piece of information is written in French? Have you ever seen a beautiful architecture on your ube... | losing |
## Inspiration
Have you ever wondered how cool it would be to have your own A.I. assistant? Imagine how easier it would be to send emails without typing a single word, doing Wikipedia searches without opening web browsers, and performing many other daily tasks like playing music with the help of a single voice command... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output.
## What it does
XTS takes an **X** and... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind it was my own experiences. Coming from a first-generation student family, I was always obligated to find any discounts or free opportunities to capitalize on. However, these were not always available easily off the internet. A tool like Froque could help many individuals questioni... | partial |
## Inspiration
While there are several applications that use OCR to read receipts, few take the leap towards informing consumers on their purchase decisions. We decided to capitalize on this gap: we currently provide information to customers about the healthiness of the food they purchase at grocery stores by analyzin... | Rapid Response aims to solve the inefficient method of locating the caller used today during 911 calls. Additionally, we aim to streamline the process of exchanging information from the user to dispatcher thus allowing for first responders to arrive in a more time efficient manner. Rapid Response utilizes the latitude,... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
In August, one of our team members was hit by a drunk driver. She survived with a few cuts and bruises, but unfortunately, there are many victims who are not as lucky. The emotional and physical trauma she and other drunk-driving victims experienced motivated us to try and create a solution in the probl... | ## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | winning |
## Inspiration
Internet Addiction, while not yet codified within a psychological framework, is growing both in prevalence as a potentially problematic condition with many parallels to existing recognized disorders. How much time do you spend on your phone a day? On your laptop? Using the internet? What fraction of tha... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a convenient, modernized journaling application with methods and components that are backed by science. Our spin on the readily available journal logging application is our take on the idea of awareness itself. What does it mean to be aware? What form or shape can mental health aware... | partial |
### Simple QR Code Bill Payment
#### nwHacks 2020 Hackathon Project
#### Main repository for the rapidserve application
### Useful Links
* [Github](https://github.com/rossmojgani/rapidserve)
* [DevPost](https://devpost.com/software/rapidserve-g1skzh)
### Team Members
* Ross Mojgani
* Dryden Wiebe
* Victor Parangu... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the Interac API, because of how simple it made money requests. We all realized that one thing we struggle with sometimes is splitting the bill, as sometimes restaurants don't accommodate for larger parties.
## What it does
Our simple web app allows for you to upload your receipt, a... | ## Inspiration
Once you finish eating with a group of friends, especially when the group is large and the restaurant can't split the bill, it can be hard to figure out how much each person pays for the meal. We wanted to create an app that would streamline the bill splitting process and ensure everyone paid the proper... | partial |
## Inspiration
Product managers and startup founders rely heavily on qualitative, not quantitative data, to make product decisions. Their primary touchpoints with customers is user interviews. However, user interviews are useless if each lives in a siloed document. How can we assist product managers and startup founde... | ## Inspiration
Beautiful notes that are simple to read can make studying easier and better. We want to write notes that don't require us flipping through hundreds of pages for definitions or spending hours trying to format them to look nice. So we decided to create a note-taking application that does that for us.
## ... | ## Inspiration
We are part of a generation that has lost the art of handwriting. Because of the clarity and ease of typing, many people struggle with clear shorthand. Whether you're a second language learner or public education failed you, we wanted to come up with an intelligent system for efficiently improving your ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our conviction that technology has the capacity to enhance our lives serves as our inspiration. In the modern world, where health is mostly ignored, we feel obligated to adapt traditional technologies and smartwatches into personal health coaches. We aim to use technology to provide individuals with the... | ## Inspiration
Do you ever notice that when you promise someone else something, you do your absolute best to make sure you keep it? But when it comes to making promises to yourself, you break them left and right. We were inspired by this idea from our lack of motivation to get up and go to the gym in the mornings as w... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | losing |
Traveling is exciting - planning, not so much. We thought about different ways to improve the vacation search process and found that visuals were key in selecting the perfect location. Because of this, we created TravelAR, an augmented reality app that allows you to physically step into scenes of different cities, then... | ## Inspiration
People struggle to work effectively in a home environment, so we were looking for ways to make it more engaging. Our team came up with the idea for InspireAR because we wanted to design a web app that could motivate remote workers be more organized in a fun and interesting way. Augmented reality seemed ... | ## Inspiration
A photo album. A book bound by our memories, each page a chapter in the story of our lives.
Welcome to TimeFly, where we've reinvented the photo album for the digital age. With our cross-platform app, capture daily videos, photos, or audio recordings, each tagged with its location using a Google Map AP... | partial |
## Inspiration
Why not? We wanted to try something new. Lip reading and the Symphonic Labs API was something we hadn't seen before. **We wanted to see how far we could push it!**
## What it does
Like singing? LLR is for you! Don’t like singing? LLR IS STILL FOR YOU! Fight for the top position in a HackTheNorth lip-s... | ## Inspiration
Some members of our team have solo travelled cities like Toronto, Montreal, Paris, Munich, Vienna... Even after fully preparing for unsafe situations, they have still encountered many moments of uncertainty leading to anxiety in their travels. Other members walk home on a daily basis and like many of ou... | ## Inspiration
Communication is so important in today's world. Therefore, it is unfair that it may not be accessible to some parts of the population. We wanted to provide an easy solution in order to empower these individuals and build an inclusive environment.
## What it does and how we built it
We used the Symphon... | partial |
## Inspiration
We often encountered challenges navigating automated call systems, which left us spending excessive time on hold and feeling frustrated. These experiences made us realize how much valuable time was being wasted when we could have been focusing on more productive tasks and we were left angry and wonderin... | ## Inspiration
I got this idea because of the current hurricane Milton causing devastation across Florida.
The inspiration behind *Autonomous AI Society* stems from the need for faster, more efficient, and autonomous systems that can make critical decisions during disaster situations. With multiple sponsors like Fetch... | ## 💡 Inspiration
Whenever I was going through educational platforms, I always wanted to use one website to store everything. The notes, lectures, quizzes and even the courses were supposed to be accessed from different apps. I was inspired by how to create a centralized platform that acknowledges learning diversity. ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Bill - "Blindness is a major problem today and we hope to have a solution that takes a step in solving this"
George - "I like engineering"
We hope our tool gives nonzero contribution to society.
## What it does
Generates a description of a scene and reads the description for visually impaired people... | ## 🌟**Inspiration**
There are over **7.2 million** people in the U.S. who are legally blind, many of whom rely on others to help them navigate and understand their environment. While technology holds the promise of increased independence, current solutions for the visually impaired often fall short—either lacking acc... | ## Inspiration
Do you wish something could really help you get up in the morning
## What it does
Sleepful uses machine vision to assist your sleep. It tracks if you have actually gotten out of bed.
## How we built it
OpenCV, MEAN, Microsoft Azure
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
An application that can tra... | winning |
## Inspiration
Thought it would be neat.
## What it does
DashDot allows you to type a message on your android phone which gets transmitted as morse code to a pebble smartwatch, which can then be read by the user by feeling the watch's vibrations. The pebble app also allows you to respond to these messages also using... | ## Inspiration
We, as all students do, frequently and unwillingly fall to the powers of procrastination. This invention is for when the little cute Pomodoro and Screen Time reminders are a tad too easy to ignore.
## What it does
The device sits in a predetermined area that you would not want to be in order to focus.... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for the project stems from our experience with elderly and visually impaired people, and understanding that there is an imminent need for a solution that integrates AI to bring a new level of convenience and safety to modern day navigation tools.
## What it does
IntelliCane firstly emp... | losing |
## Inspiration
As most of our team became students here at the University of Waterloo, many of us had our first experience living in a shared space with roommates. Without the constant nagging by parents to clean up after ourselves that we found at home and some slightly unorganized roommates, many shared spaces in ou... | ## Inspiration
One day, one of our teammates was throwing out garbage in his apartment complex and the building manager made him aware that certain plastics he was recycling were soft plastics that can't be recycled.
According to a survey commissioned by Covanta, “2,000 Americans revealed that 62 percent of responden... | ## Inspiration
It’'s pretty common that you will come back from a grocery trip, put away all the food you bought in your fridge and pantry, and forget about it. Even if you read the expiration date while buying a carton of milk, chances are that a decent portion of your food will expire. After that you’ll throw away f... | partial |
## Inspiration
The main inspiration of the idea was in our own personal experience when we are in the middle of a live lecture or watching a pre recorded zoom lecture, and we had a question regarding the topic. The process of googling a result one the side while the lecture is going on is usually a herculean task that... | ## 💡 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 ... | ## Inspiration
We're students, and that means one of our biggest inspirations (and some of our most frustrating problems) come from a daily ritual - lectures.
Some professors are fantastic. But let's face it, many professors could use some constructive criticism when it comes to their presentation skills. Whether it's... | partial |
## 💡 Inspiration
Generation Z is all about renting - buying land is simply out of our budgets. But the tides are changing: with Pocket Plots, an entirely new generation can unlock the power of land ownership without a budget.
Traditional land ownership goes like this: you find a property, spend weeks negotiating a p... | ## Inspiration 💡
**Due to rising real estate prices, many students are failing to find proper housing, and many landlords are failing to find good tenants**. Students looking for houses often have to hire some agent to get a nice place with a decent landlord. The same goes for house owners who need to hire agents to ... | ## Inspiration
During the past summer, we experienced the struggles of finding subletters for our apartment. Ads were posted in various locations, ranging from Facebook to WeChat. Our feeds were filled with other people looking for people to sublet as well. As a result, we decided to create Subletting Made Easy. We en... | winning |
## Inspiration
On average, an EMT can take 10 minutes to arrive at the scene of an emergency while incidents such as choking or heart attacks can turn fatal within 3 minutes. Those 10 minutes between the start of the emergency and when help arrives are vital in the patient's survival.
## What it does
Any surrounding... | ## Inspiration
This project was inspired by Leon's father's first-hand experience with a lack of electronic medical records and realizing the need for more accessible patient experience.
## What it does
The system stores patients' medical records. it also allows patients to fill out medical forms using their voice, ... | ## Inspiration
Nowadays, large corporations are spending more and more money nowadays on digital media advertising, but their data collection tools have not been improving at the same rate. Nike spent over $3.03 billion on advertising alone in 2014, which amounted to approximately $100 per second, yet they only receiv... | losing |
## Inspiration
Blip emerged from a simple observation: in our fast-paced world, long-form content often goes unheard. Inspired by the success of short-form video platforms like Tiktok, we set out to revolutionize the audio space.
## What it does
Our vision is to create a platform where bite-sized audio clips could d... | ## Inspiration
Imagine you're sitting in your favorite coffee shop and a unicorn startup idea pops into your head. You open your laptop and choose from a myriad selection of productivity tools to jot your idea down. It’s so fresh in your brain, you don’t want to waste any time so, fervently you type, thinking of your ... | ## Inspiration: We thought that it takes a lot of time for teachers and professors to grade hundreds of assignments and we wanted to make it less time-consuming so that they can use this time doing something more efficient.
## What it does: We have a professor view homepage where they submit the answer key and we have... | winning |
## Inspiration
Patients usually have to go through multiple diagnosis before getting the right doctor. With the astonishing computational power we have today, we could use predictive analysis to suggest the patients' potential illness.
## What it does
Clow takes a picture of the patient's face during registration an... | ## Inspiration
Care.ai was inspired by our self-conducted study involving 60 families and 23 smart devices, focusing on elderly healthcare. Over three months, despite various technologies, families preferred the simplicity of voice-activated assistants like Alexa. This preference led us to develop an intuitive, user-f... | ## Inspiration
This project was inspired by the Professional Engineering course taken by all first year engineering students at McMaster University (1P03). The final project for the course was to design a solution to a problem of your choice that was given by St. Peter's Residence at Chedoke, a long term residence car... | partial |
# see our presentation [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AWFR0UEZ3NBi8W04uCgkNGMovDwHm_xRZ-3Zk3TC8-E/edit?usp=sharing)
## Inspiration
Without purchasing hardware, there are few ways to have contact-free interactions with your computer.
To make such technologies accessible to everyone, we created one of t... | ## Inspiration
Ideas for interactions from:
* <http://paperprograms.org/>
* <http://dynamicland.org/>
but I wanted to go from the existing computer down, rather from the bottom up, and make something that was a twist on the existing desktop: Web browser, Terminal, chat apps, keyboard, windows.
## What it does
Maps ... | ## Inspiration
With the sudden move to online videoconferencing, presenters and audiences have been faced with a number of challenges. Foremost among these is a lack of engagement between presenters and the audience, which is exacerbated by a lack of gestures and body language. As first year students, we have seen thi... | winning |
# AlarmAll
An alternate alarm system for people with hearing loss that integrates with existing alarms. Created at McHacks 2017.
## Table of Contents
* [Inside this Repository](#inside)
* [Existing Alarm Systems](#existing)
* [How it Works](#works)
* [Engineering Process/Specs](#process)
+ [Initial Circuit Analysis... | ## Inspiration
Recycling is a simple habit that goes a long way in saving the environment. Too many times have our team members stood in front of the recycling bins, with trash in hand, discussing amongst ourselves which bin each item belongs to. Many individuals, like us, struggle with recycling confusion. Therefore,... | ## Inspiration
This project was inspired by the Professional Engineering course taken by all first year engineering students at McMaster University (1P03). The final project for the course was to design a solution to a problem of your choice that was given by St. Peter's Residence at Chedoke, a long term residence car... | losing |
# Motion's Creation: Bringing Precision to Yoga
## Inspiration
While exploring potential ideas, MoveNet caught our attention with its capabilities for accurately tracking human movement. We recognized an opportunity: to provide wellness within reach for all through real-time feedback. Motion aspires to make wellness ... | ## Inspiration
It is difficult for university students to find the time and money to go to the gym. Although some YouTube videos teach exercises that can be done at home without weights, it's not always easy to self-correct without a gym buddy.
## What it does
When a user works out at home, they can place their lapt... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | losing |
## Inspiration:
What inspired the team to create this project, was the fact that many people around the world are misdiagnosed with different types of ocular diseases, which leads to patients getting improper treatments and ultimately leading to visual impairment (blindness). With the help of Theia, we can properly di... | ## Inspiration
Since deep learning in image processing is getting more and more important, I would like to develop an application that could assist medical staff in distinguishing ocular disease or even just give a reference for an initial judgment.
## What it does
It uses deep learning (VGG19) to process images of ... | ## Overview
According to the WHO, at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have a vision impairment or blindness. Out of these, an estimated 1 billion cases could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed. This underscores the vast number of people who lack access to necessary eye care services. Even as developers,... | losing |
## Inspiration
A week or so ago, Nyle DiMarco, the model/actor/deaf activist, visited my school and enlightened our students about how his experience as a deaf person was in shows like Dancing with the Stars (where he danced without hearing the music) and America's Next Top Model. Many people on those sets and in the ... | ## Overview
People today are as connected as they've ever been, but there are still obstacles in communication, particularly for people who are deaf/mute and can not communicate by speaking. Our app allows bi-directional communication between people who use sign language and those who speak.
You can use your device's... | ## Inspiration
All of our team members are deeply passionate about improving students' education. We focused on the underserved community of deaf or hard-of-hearing students, who communicate, understand, and think primarily in ASL. While some of these students have become accustomed to reading English in various conte... | winning |
## Inspiration
Homes are becoming more and more intelligent with Smart Home products such as the Amazon Echo or Google Home. However, users have limited information about the infrastructure's status.
## What it does
Our smart chat bot helps users to monitor their house's state from anywhere using low cost sensors. O... | ## Inspiration
One issue that we all seem to face is interpreting large sensor-based datasets. Whether it be financial or environmental data, we saw an opportunity to use LLMs to allow for better understanding of big data. As a proof of concept, taking care of a house plant or gardens was interesting because we could ... | ## Inspiration
Similar to how we cannot decide for ourselves on questions such as "Where should I get food?", or "What should I do for today?". Now we can outsource our decision-making to a smart home.
## What it does
Utilizing historical user input as a reference point, we have a profile on the user's likes and dis... | winning |
## Inspiration
Millions of people around the world are either blind, or partially sighted. For those who's vision is impaired, but not lost, there are tools that can help them see better. By increasing contrast and detecting lines in an image, some people might be able to see clearer.
## What it does
We developed an... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the 217 million people in the world who have moderate to severe vision impairment, and 36 million people who are fully blind. In our modern society, with all its comforts, it is easy to forget that there are so many people who do not have the same luxuries as us. It is unthink... | ## Inspiration
My partner and I can empathize with those that have disabilities. Because of this, we are passionate about doing our part in making the world a better place for them. This app can help blind people in navigating the world around them, making life easier and less dangerous.
## What it Does
Droid Eyes c... | partial |
## Inspiration
struggling to cook and manage time
## What it does
teach users how to cook new foods
## How we built it
React JS, Google Cloud (Calendar, OAUTH), Edamam and HTML/CSS
## Challenges we ran into
Connecting to google services and obtaining the API calls
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
getting... | ## Purpose:
Food waste is an extensive issue touching all across the globe; in fact, according to the UN Environmente Programme, approximately ⅓ of food produced for human consumption globally is lost or wasted annually (Made in CA). After perceiving this information, we were inspired to create a website that provides... | ## Inspiration
One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi... | losing |
## Inspiration
Philadelphia, like many urban cities, is grappling with rising temperatures due to climate change, industrialization, and the urban heat island effect. We noticed that extreme heat is making it unsafe for many communities, especially during summer months. Chilladelphia was inspired by the need to provid... | ## 💫 Inspiration
Inspired by our grandparents, who may not always be able to accomplish certain tasks, we wanted to create a platform that would allow them to find help locally . We also recognize that many younger members of the community might be more knowledgeable or capable of helping out. These younger members m... | ## Inspiration
Because of covid-19 and the holiday season, we are getting increasingly guilty over the carbon footprint caused by our online shopping. This is not a coincidence, Amazon along contributed over 55.17 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019 alone, the equivalent of 13 coal power plants.
We have seen many carbon fo... | winning |
## Inspiration
There are many scary things in the world ranging from poisonous spiders to horrifying ghosts, but none of these things scare people more than the act of public speaking. Over 75% of humans suffer from a fear of public speaking but what if there was a way to tackle this problem? That's why we created Str... | ## Inspiration
Across the globe, a critical shortage of qualified teachers poses a significant challenge to education. The average student-to-teacher ratio in primary schools worldwide stands at an alarming **23:1!** In some regions of Africa, this ratio skyrockets to an astonishing **40:1**. [Research 1](https://data... | ## What it does
Eloquent has two primary functions, both influenced by a connection between speaking and learning
The first is a public speaking coach, to help people practice their speeches. Users can import a speech or opt to ad-lib — the app will then listen to the user speak. When they finish, the app will presen... | winning |
## I wanted to do something for students.
## A student can access all the books, pdfs, mock tests for free easily and they don't to sign up/login at the page. This webpage is more focused towards Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and its a one stop destination for students to grab basic to advanced level knowledge an... | ## Initial Idea
There were two ideas at first. One was to construct a Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm to look at successfulness of treatments in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), accessible via PubMed, and the other was to analyze properties of scientific literature published within a certain time perio... | ## Inspiration
Many of us had class sessions in which the teacher pulled out whiteboards or chalkboards and used them as a tool for teaching. These made classes very interactive and engaging. With the switch to virtual teaching, class interactivity has been harder. Usually a teacher just shares their screen and talks,... | losing |
## Why MusicShift?
When you listen to music, it belongs to you & your friends. We want to make sure you feel that way about every song. Switching aux cords, settling for lackluster playlists, or attempting to plan a playlist in advance doesn't let that happen. Through MusicShift, we make sure that the best playlist is... | ## Inspiration
I've always wanted to learn to DANCE. But dance teachers cost money and I'm a bad dancer :( We made DanceBuddy so we could learn to dance :)
## What it does
It breaks down poses from a dancing video into a step-by-step tutorial. Once you hit a pose, it will move on.
We break down the movements for you... | Introducing Melo-N – where your favorite tunes get a whole new vibe! Melo-N combines "melody" and "Novate" to bring you a fun way to switch up your music.
Here's the deal: You pick a song and a genre, and we do the rest. We keep the lyrics and melody intact while changing up the music style. It's like listening to you... | partial |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
The opioid crisis is a widespread danger, affecting millions of Americans every year. In 2016 alone, 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. After researching what had been done to tackle this problem, we came upon many pill dispensers currently on the market. How... | ## Inspiration
As an avid gift giver, I wanted to share my expertise with others who might struggle with remembering or coming up with a gift idea
## What it does
giftie lets you organize any number of gift ideas for your friends and family. Whenever inspiration strikes, you can use giftie to store your ideas to com... | winning |
## City Bins Roamer : An AI multiplayer game for sustainable cities!
# What it does
We're using Martello's geospatial data to make a Pac-Man-like game taking place across the playing board of Montreal's streets.
The goal: if you play as 'garbage': try to escape from the Intelligent System of Bins!!
If you play as 'bi... | ## Inspiration
Frustrating and intimidating banking experience leads to loss of customers and we wanted to change that making banking fun and entertaining. Specifically, senior citizens find it harder to navigate online bank profiles and know their financial status. We decided to come up with an android app that lets ... | # Catch! (Around the World)
## Our Inspiration
Catch has to be one of our most favourite childhood games. Something about just throwing and receiving a ball does wonders for your serotonin. Since all of our team members have relatives throughout the entire world, we thought it'd be nice to play catch with those relat... | winning |
## Inspiration
This year is our last year at Hack the North. Ever since 2020++, we have competed as hackers, making all kinds of projects from NFT scanners to mind-controlled cars. This year, we wanted to celebrate the unsung heroes. The ones left forgotten even though they're the backbone of society itself.
We've all... | ## Inspiration
To improve every day productivity, to provide a source of reliable and immediate information, and to be readily available for all walks of life. This app is targeted to help the people who don't have reliable access to educational texts or resources, to the people who want to add more productivity into ... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by personal experience of commonly getting separated in groups and knowing how inconvenient and sometimes dangerous it can be, we aimed to create an application that kept people together. We were inspired by how interlinked and connected we are today by our devices and sought to address social ... | losing |
## **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
We are all a fan of Carrot, the app that rewards you for walking around. This gamification and point system of Carrot really contributed to its success. Carrot targeted the sedentary and unhealthy lives we were leading and tried to fix that. So why can't we fix our habit of polluting and creating greenh... | ## Introduction
Introducing **NFTree**, the innovative new platform that allows users to take control of their carbon footprint. On NFTree, you can purchase NFTs of a piece of a forest. Each NFT represents a real piece of land that will be preserved and protected, offsetting your carbon emissions. Not only are you mak... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind our innovative personal desk assistant was ignited by the fond memories of Furbys, those enchanting electronic companions that captivated children's hearts in the 2000s. These delightful toys, resembling a charming blend of an owl and a hamster, held an irresistible appeal, becomi... | ## Inspiration
2 days before flying to Hack the North, Darryl forgot his keys and spent the better part of an afternoon retracing his steps to find it- But what if there was a personal assistant that remembered everything for you? Memories should be made easier with the technologies we have today.
## What it does
A ... | ## Inspiration
The 2016 presidential election was marred by the apparent involvement of Russian hackers who built bots that spewed charged political discourse and made it their goal to create havoc on internet forums. Hacking of this kind will never be completely stopped, but if you can't beat them... why not join the... | winning |
## Inspiration
Ever have those household chores you don't like, or just don't know how to do? So do we! ("Yes, mom, I'll take out the trash when I'm home) So we created this app for you to post jobs locally and allow people to browse through current job postings. Just include your contact information, and you can have... | ## Inspiration
With an increasing amount of homeless people on the street there are more and more people that need food water and shelter. Our hope was to create something that helps Organizations and Charities find and help homeless people more efficiently.
## What it does
The user when they spot a homeless person ... | ## Inspiration
Only a small percentage of Americans use ASL as their main form of daily communication. Hence, no one notices when ASL-first speakers are left out of using FaceTime, Zoom, or even iMessage voice memos. This is a terrible inconvenience for ASL-first speakers attempting to communicate with their loved one... | losing |
## Inspiration
Traffic lights are one of the most dangerous parts of driving. According to the AAA, in 2017, 939 people were killed in red light running crashes. Red light cameras don’t solve the problem because they are reactive and not proactive. Many red light runners don’t even realize they’ve run a red light, and... | ## Inspiration
*In 2018, about 35.7 percent of deaths due to road accidents happened on highways*
Imagine, your loved ones facing an accident at midnight. What if there is no one to help them? What if they are in pain and want someone to rescue them?
### Our Aim
We aim to create a safety device that allows people m... | ## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | losing |
## 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
Crime rates are on the rise across America, and many people, especially women, fear walking alone at night, even in their own neighborhoods. When we first came to MIT, we all experienced some level of harassment on the streets. Current navigation apps do not include the necessary safety precautions that... | ## Inspiration
Want to take advantage of the AR and object detection technologies to help people to gain safer walking experiences and communicate distance information to help people with visual loss navigate.
## What it does
Augment the world with the beeping sounds that change depending on your proximity towards o... | losing |
## Inspiration
On our way to PennApps, our team was hungrily waiting in line at Shake Shack while trying to think of the best hack idea to bring. Unfortunately, rather than being able to sit comfortably and pull out our laptops to research, we were forced to stand in a long line to reach the cashier, only to be handed... | ## Inspiration
Ricky and I are big fans of the software culture. It's very open and free, much like the ideals of our great nation. As U.S. military veterans, we are drawn to software that liberates the oppressed and gives a voice to those unheard.
**Senate Joint Resolution 34** is awaiting ratification from the Pres... | ## Inspiration
Every project aims to solve a problem, and to solve people's concerns. When we walk into a restaurant, we are so concerned that not many photos are printed on the menu. However, we are always eager to find out what a food looks like. Surprisingly, including a nice-looking picture alongside a food item i... | winning |
## Inspiration
What happens if a voice recognition engine is integrated into a website?
## What it does
Talk with it. It will give you back intelligent results.
## How I built it
Knockout.js as front-end JavaScript view library with Houndify voice API integrated. Express.js on Node.js as web server. Bootstrap for ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was Saqib Shaikh, a software engineer at Microsoft who also happens to be hard of sight. In order to write code, he used a text-to-speech engine that would read back what he wrote. That got us thinking: how do other visually impaired individuals learn how to code and develop software? Wh... | ## 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 ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by geocaching. Geocaching is the idea of crowdsourcing scavenger hunts where users can hide caches throughout a city and other users can go on adventures to discover them.
Team:
Dee Lucic
Matt Mitchell
Keshav Chawla
Alexei dela Pena
For this project we wanted to use the follow... | ## Inspiration
Save the World is a mobile app meant to promote sustainable practices, one task at a time.
## What it does
Users begin with a colorless Earth prominently displayed on their screens, along with a list of possible tasks. After completing a sustainable task, such as saying no to a straw at a restaurant, ... | ## 💡 Inspiration 💯
Have you ever faced a trashcan with a seemingly endless number of bins, each one marked with a different type of recycling? Have you ever held some trash in your hand, desperately wondering if it can be recycled? Have you ever been forced to sort your trash in your house, the different bins taking... | partial |
## Not All Backs are Packed: An Origin Story (Inspiration)
A backpack is an extremely simple, and yet ubiquitous item. We want to take the backpack into the future without sacrificing the simplicity and functionality.
## The Got Your Back, Pack: **U N P A C K E D** (What's it made of)
GPS Location services,
9000 mAH... | ## Inspiration
The opioid crisis is a widespread danger, affecting millions of Americans every year. In 2016 alone, 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. After researching what had been done to tackle this problem, we came upon many pill dispensers currently on the market. How... | ## 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, ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Tired of letting your food go to waste? Want some free food after a long day? You're at the right place
## What it does
Introducing MunchMap, your very own virtual community fridge! Say goodbye to food waste and hunger with our innovative platform designed to transform your community into a hub of sha... | ## Inspiration
I was cooking at home one day and I kept noticing we had half a carrot, half an onion, and like a quarter of a pound of ground pork lying around all the time. More often than not it was from me cooking a fun dish that my mother have to somehow clean up over the week. So I wanted to create an app that wo... | Team channel #43
Team discord users - Sarim Zia #0673,
Elly #2476,
(ASK),
rusticolus #4817,
Names -
Vamiq,
Elly,
Sarim,
Shahbaaz
## Inspiration
When brainstorming an idea, we concentrated on problems that affected a large population and that mattered to us. Topics such as homelessness, food waste and a clean environm... | losing |
## Inspiration
Garbage in bins around cities are constantly overflowing. Our goal was to create a system that better allocates time and resources to help prevent this problem, while also positively impacting the environment.
## What it does
Urbins provides a live monitoring web application that displays the live cap... | ## Inspiration
With caffeine being a staple in almost every student’s lifestyle, many are unaware when it comes to the amount of caffeine in their drinks. Although a small dose of caffeine increases one’s ability to concentrate, higher doses may be detrimental to physical and mental health. This inspired us to create ... | ## Inspiration
## What it does
Alfredo is a tool to keep track of the inventory in one's fridge. Unlike many existing smart fridge that scans your receipts in order to register the recent items added to the fridge, it uses the speech recognition feature of a smart home assistant, e.g. Amazon Echo add and remove items... | winning |
## Inspiration
When it comes to finding solutions to global issues, we often feel helpless: making us feel as if our small impact will not help the bigger picture. Climate change is a critical concern of our age; however, the extent of this matter often reaches beyond what one person can do....or so we think!
Inspired... | ## Inspiration
We recognized how much time meal planning can cause, especially for busy young professionals and students who have little experience cooking. We wanted to provide an easy way to buy healthy, sustainable meals for the week, without compromising the budget or harming the environment.
## What it does
Sim... | ## Inspiration
We have all heard about the nutrition and health issues from those who surround us. Yes, adult obesity has plateaued since 2003, but it's at an extremely high rate. Two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese. If we look at diabetes, it's prevalent in 25.9% americans over 65. That's 11.8 millio... | winning |
## Inspiration
When we joined the hackathon, we began brainstorming about problems in our lives. After discussing some constant struggles in their lives with many friends and family, one response was ultimately shared: health. Interestingly, one of the biggest health concerns that impacts everyone in their lives comes... | ## Inspiration
With an ever-increasing rate of crime, and internet deception on the rise, Cyber fraud has become one of the premier methods of theft across the world. From frivolous scams like phishing attempts, to the occasional Nigerian prince who wants to give you his fortune, it's all too susceptible for the commo... | ## Inspiration
As students around 16 years old, skin conditions such as acne make us even more self-conscious than we already are. Furthermore, one of our friends is currently suffering from eczema, so we decided to make an app relating to skin care. While brainstorming for ideas, we realized that the elderly are affe... | winning |
## Inspiration
In emergency situations like fires, every second counts, and clear communication is crucial. We were inspired by the potential of Boston Dynamics' Spot to assist in rescue operations by bridging language barriers and navigating hazardous environments, made possible with flame-retardant polyurethane foam... | ## Inspiration
The 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires were the worst in Albertan history. It was a transformational moment for the lives of thousands of Albertans, including us. The impact that this event had on us, combined with our passion for technology, inspired us to come up with novel approaches to disaster response —... | ## Inspiration
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | losing |
### Problem and Challenge
Achieving 100% financial inclusion where all have access to financial services still remains a difficult challenge. Particularly, a huge percentage of the unbanked adults comprise of women [1]. There are various barriers worldwide that prevent women from accessing formal financial services, i... | ## Inspiration
My father put me in charge of his finances and in contact with his advisor, a young, enterprising financial consultant eager to make large returns. That might sound pretty good, but to someone financially conservative like my father doesn't really want that kind of risk in this stage of his life. The op... | ## Inspiration
In 2020, Canada received more than 200,000 refugees and immigrants. The more immigrants and BIPOC individuals I spoke to, the more I realized, they were only aiming for employment opportunities as cab drivers, cleaners, dock workers, etc. This can be attributed to a discriminatory algorithm that scraps ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Throughout history, we've invented better and better ways of interfacing with machines. The **mouse**, the **VirtualBoy**, the **nub mouse thing** on ThinkPads. But we weren't satisfied with the current state of input devices. As computers become more and more personal and more and more a part of our da... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create an interactive desktop with the concept of space involved just as in the days before computers became a common workplace tool. We went for the futuristic approach where icons and files can be grabbed and interacted with in virtual reality.
## What it does
It places the user in a 3D... | ## Inspiration
As a mobile developer, I was sick of coding user interfaces. These days, if you're creating a chat app, for example, you'll probably find by far the longest part is designing and coding the user interface. I wanted to find a way to speed this process up.
## What it does
UICode is an iPad app that has ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Philadelphia, like many urban cities, is grappling with rising temperatures due to climate change, industrialization, and the urban heat island effect. We noticed that extreme heat is making it unsafe for many communities, especially during summer months. Chilladelphia was inspired by the need to provid... | ## Inspiration 🌱
Climate change is affecting every region on earth. The changes are widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The UN states that we are at a pivotal moment and the urgency to protect our Earth is at an all-time high. We wanted to harness the power of social media for a greater purpose: promoting sustainabi... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project stemmed from a mild, first-world frustration with modern weather websites. Sure, one glance at the temperature can tell you a lot about the weather, but there are so many other factors that we commonly ignore which can also affect our day. What if it's unbearably humid? O... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by issues we had ourselves with COVID-19 - we learned a ton about tech and coding and wanted to share our passion with others in software development, but hit a wall in finding others like ourselves. We were all too familiar with recruiting someone for a hackathon, only to have them gho... | ## Intro
Have an upcoming exam? Planning a wedding? Or have a tight deadline?
"I'm really stressed right now! Help!"
Well, with LavÜ, we've gotchyou!
## Inspiration
After experiencing stressors in everyday life and speaking with members of the community, we found that many people experience stress physically—parti... | ## Inspiration
A great mentor can be instrumental for us to grow as a person in life. A mentor can be anyone, someone giving us career advice, or someone helping us learn to cook the most delicious meal we have ever eaten. We often interact with people and talk about our skills, or how they could help us learn new ski... | partial |
## Inspiration
The world of crypto is very flashy. As blockchain innovation becomes more popular, being creative requires more complicated and nuanced features. But what about those who experience the web differently? For the visually impaired, flashy and complicated crypto solutions hardly matter. What matters is an ... | ## Inspiration
As we sat down to brainstorm ideas for our next project, we were struck by a common thread that connected all of us. Each one of us had a family member who suffered from some form of visual impairment. It was a heart-wrenching reminder of the challenges that these individuals face on a daily basis. We s... | ## Inspiration
Cryptocurrency is the new hype of our age. We wanted to explore the possibilities of managing Cryptocurrency transactions at the tips of our fingers through social media outlets. At the same time, we wanted to tackle the problem of splitting bills when we eat out with friends, through sending Ethereum t... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was the vast number of individuals in the world who struggle with, or are physically incapable of, cleaning various surfaces and hard-to-reach areas in their house, such as under cabinets, or on tables. Our project was meant to be a way to make cleaning easier, and more ... | ## Inspiration
Both of us have an interest in the mechatronics field and thought it would be fun to do something together over the reading week. The idea for the hand came about as we thought it would be a good challenge for us to try and work through while still being attainable.
## What it does
The project is in 2... | ## 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... | losing |
# What is gitStarted?
GitStarted is a developer tool to help get projects off the ground in no time. When time is of the essence, devs hate losing time to setting up repositories. GitStarted streamlines the repo crea... | ## Inspiration
Our idea was inspired by our group's shared interest in musical composition, as well as our interests in AI models and their capabilites. The concept that inspired our project was: "*What if life had a soundtrack?*"
## What it does
AutOST generates and produces a constant stream of original live music... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for GithubGuide came from our own experiences working with open-source projects and navigating through complex codebases on GitHub. We realized that understanding the purpose of each file and folder in a repository can be a daunting task, especially for beginners. Thus, we aimed to creat... | winning |
## Inspiration
In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine... | ## Inspiration
When visiting a clinic, two big complaints that we have are the long wait times and the necessity to use a kiosk that thousands of other people have already touched. We also know that certain methods of filling in information are not accessible to everyone (For example, someone with Parkinsons disease w... | ## Inspiration
The cryptocurrency market is an industry which is expanding at an exponential rate. Everyday, thousands new investors of all kinds are getting into this volatile market. With more than 1,500 coins to choose from, it is extremely difficult to choose the wisest investment for those new investors. Our goal... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind LeafHack stems from a shared passion for sustainability and a desire to empower individuals to take control of their food sources. Witnessing the rising grocery costs and the environmental impact of conventional agriculture, we were motivated to create a solution that not only add... | ## Inspiration
After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ... | ## Inspiration
Environmental consciousness and desire to increase urgency to act.
## What it does
Allows users to create their own plans for countries to "save the world" by
changing and reducing their energy consumption.
## How we built it
Using Google Data Studio and Google Cloud to display extensively researche... | winning |
## Inspiration
Two of our teammates have personal experiences with wildfires: one who has lived all her life in California, and one who was exposed to a fire in his uncle's backyard in the same state. We found the recent wildfires especially troubling and thus decided to focus our efforts on doing what we could with t... | ## Inspiration
Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i... | ## Inspiration
I wanted to create a game that had a unique premise and controls.
## What it does
A puzzle game that has the player control four characters at once.
## How I built it
I used Python along with Pygame to complete this project.
## Challenges I ran into
At first I attempted to use Unity to complete th... | winning |
## Why VBN?
There are primarily two groups who VBN benefits:
1. Buyers - before purchasing a vehicle you can be confident in your understanding of its current state.
2. Owners - have access to all of **your** data without having to pay a third-party service.
In general, benefits include:
**Avoid Fees**
As opposed ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the Telemarketing survey. We want to create a sort of "prank call" to people, especially to our friends where the call will be a super-realistic voice presenting a survey to them. At the end, we have decided to program a chatbot that will conduct a survey via phone and ask the... | ## Inspiration
Our goal was to implement a social feature that would attract students to Radish's services. We were inspired by McGill's Engineering building ice cream store. They give out free ice cream when you fail an exam.
## What it does
It asks for the person to submit proof that they failed, checks it, and gi... | partial |
## Inspiration
Grip strength has been shown to be a powerful biomarker for numerous physiological processes. Two particularly compelling examples are Central Nervous System (CNS) fatigue and overall propensity for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). The core idea is not about building a hand grip strengthening tool, as this... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | # AuthDaddy: 2FA Using Biometric Data
[](https://github.com/Mahajanet/AuthDaddy)
AuthDaddy is a groundbreaking Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) solution developed during PennApps XXIV (2023). Unlike traditional 2FA systems t... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were going to build a themed application to time portal you back to various points in the internet's history that we loved, but we found out prototyping with retro looking components is tough. Building each component takes a long time, and even longer to code. We started by automating parts of this p... | ## What it does
"ImpromPPTX" uses your computer microphone to listen while you talk. Based on what you're speaking about, it generates content to appear on your screen in a presentation in real time. It can retrieve images and graphs, as well as making relevant titles, and summarizing your words into bullet points.
#... | ## **Inspiration:**
Our inspiration stemmed from the realization that the pinnacle of innovation occurs at the intersection of deep curiosity and an expansive space to explore one's imagination. Recognizing the barriers faced by learners—particularly their inability to gain real-time, personalized, and contextualized ... | winning |
# yhack
JuxtaFeeling is a Flask web application that visualizes the varying emotions between two different people having a conversation through our interactive graphs and probability data. By using the Vokaturi, IBM Watson, and Indicoio APIs, we were able to analyze both written text and audio clips to detect the emot... | ## Overview
We created a Smart Glasses hack called SmartEQ! This unique hack leverages the power of machine learning and facial recognition to determine the emotion of the person you are talking to and conducts sentiment analysis on your conversation, all in real time! Since we couldn’t get a pair of Smart Glasses (*h... | ## Inspiration
Each year in China alone, 20,000 to 200,000 children went missing, kidnapped or trafficked. They are usually forced to labor, auctioned illegally for adoption, or even entrapped in gangs. People witness them on the street, but the reporting and identification process is frustratingly time-consuming. Con... | winning |
## Inspiration
In this program we aim to simulate different models of opinion formation within an interacting population.
## What it does
We consider each individual, or agent, in the population to have some opinion between 0 and 1 which they update based on the opinions of all other agents in the population. To nor... | ## Inspiration
For Canada 2023 had statistically the most destructive wildfire season with 15 million hectares of land having been burnt. Not only Canada, around the world forest fires have been a rising issue causing countless damages to not only homes and people in high fire risk areas but also is taking a massive d... | ## Inspiration
For this hackathon, we wanted to build something that could have a positive impact on its users. We've all been to university ourselves, and we understood the toll, stress took on our minds. Demand for mental health services among youth across universities has increased dramatically in recent years. A R... | losing |
## Inspiration
We find ourselves pulling up to weldon, looking for a seat for roughly 20 minutes, and then leaving in despair. We built this tool to help other students forget about this struggle in their studious endeavours.
## What it does
Asks users to input times they are available throughout the day, then uses ... | ## Inspiration
I hate getting out of bed, but once I get rolling, I want to finish everything I have to for the day in one fell swoop. I wanted to make a web app that finds the most compact way to go about your day so you don't have awkward breaks.
## What it does
Users enter three types of tasks: **fixed** which ar... | ## Inspiration
We always that moment when you're with your friends, have the time, but don't know what to do! Well, SAJE will remedy that.
## What it does
We are an easy-to-use website that will take your current location, interests, and generate a custom itinerary that will fill the time you have to kill. Based aro... | losing |
## Inspiration
We love travelling. Two of us are actually travelling across the country to come to CalHacks. We were also inspired by reddit posts on /r/Berkeley describing some students feeling really lonely, despite being surrounded by people. In our generation it seems that a growing concern is the inability of peo... | ## Inspiration
We sat down and thought: okay, we will come back home from CalHacks. And what's the very next action? One of us will want to go play soccer, another teammate may want to go to the bar and talk about Machine Learning with someone. And we understood there are tons of wonderful and interesting people out t... | ## Why We Created **Here**
As college students, one question that we catch ourselves asking over and over again is – “Where are you studying today?” One of the most popular ways for students to coordinate is through texting. But messaging people individually can be time consuming and awkward for both the inviter and t... | losing |
## Inspiration
We take our inspiration from our everyday lives. As avid travellers, we often run into places with foreign languages and need help with translations. As avid learners, we're always eager to add more words to our bank of knowledge. As children of immigrant parents, we know how difficult it is to grasp a ... | ## Inspiration
Learning a new instrument is hard. Inspired by games like Guitar Hero, we wanted to make a fun, interactive music experience but also have it translate to actually learning a new instrument. We chose the violin because most of our team members had never touched a violin prior to this hackathon. Learning... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was the technological and communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients, restricted access to both one’s own health data and physicians, misdiagnosis due to lack of historical information, as well as rising demand in distance-healthcare due to the lack ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Recent mass shooting events are indicative of a rising, unfortunate trend in the United States. During a shooting, someone may be killed every 3 seconds on average, while it takes authorities an average of 10 minutes to arrive on a crime scene after a distress call. In addition, cameras and live closed ... | ## Inspiration
Gun violence is a dire problem in the United States. When looking at case studies of mass shootings in the US, there is often surveillance footage of the shooter *with their firearm* **before** they started to attack. That's both the problem and the solution. Right now, surveillance footage is used as a... | ## Inspiration
After seeing how things unfolded due to crowd crushing during a music concert like Astroworld, and more recently in Itaewon, in South Korea, we were compelled to think of a solution in order to prevent such disasters from happening again. From our observations, there seemed to be a lack of infrastructur... | winning |
## The Gist
We combine state-of-the-art LLM/GPT detection methods with image diffusion models to accurately detect AI-generated video with 92% accuracy.
## Inspiration
As image and video generation models become more powerful, they pose a strong threat to traditional media norms of trust and truth. OpenAI's SORA mod... | # Fake Bananas
Fake news detection made simple and scalable for real people.
## Getting Started
I would strongly recommend a `conda` environment in order to easily install our older version of TensorFlow. We used `TensorFlow 0.12.1` for backwards compatibility with previous work in the field.
Newer versions of Tenso... | ## Inspiration
With the rise of AI-generated content and DeepFakes, it's hard for people to identify what's real and what's fake. This leads to fake news and abuse. After seeing the launch of OpenAI's Sora model this week, we decided to build a solution to verify whether an image is real or AI-generated.
## What it d... | winning |
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