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## Inspiration We were inspired by all the people who go along their days thinking that no one can actually relate to what they are experiencing. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a mental toll on many of us and has kept us feeling isolated. We wanted to make an easy to use web-app which keeps people connected and allow...
## Inspiration Last year we had to go through the hassle of retrieving a physical key from a locked box in a hidden location in order to enter our AirBnB. After seeing the August locks, we thought there must be a more convenient alternative. We thought of other situations where you would want to grant access to your ...
## Inspiration In this time of the pandemic, most of us are just in our own homes. Not all people can cope with this "new normal" state and can't go much outside. We have realized that the emotional factor in life is essential. In the Philippines, mental health issues are not taken seriously. In this project, we creat...
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# Tinderprint Tinderprint is a dating app that matches you with people based on true physical and spiritual compatibility. For millenia, handreaders have been using fingerprints to characterize people's personalities and to predict major life events. Tinderprint uses a neural net to analyze the unique qualities of you...
# Inspiration We’ve all been in a situation where collaborators’ strengths all lie in different areas, and finding “the perfect” team to work with is more difficult than expected. We wanted to make something that could help us find people with similar strengths without painstakingly scouring dozens of github accounts....
## About the Project ### TLDR: Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori...
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# Doc.Care ## Our revolutionary platform for medical professionals and patients: a centralized data hub for accessing medical history. Our platform provides easy access to medical history data, allowing doctors and other medical professionals worldwide to access and reference patient records in real-time with a unique...
## Inspiration Healthcare providers spend nearly half of their time with their patients entering data into outdated, user-unfriendly software. This is why we have built a medical assistant that helps doctors efficiently filter through patient information and extract critical information for diagnosis, allowing more of...
## Inspiration In large corporations, such as RBC, the help desk gets called hundreds phone calls every hour, lasting about 8 minutes on average and costing the company $15 per hour. We thought this was both a massive waste of time and resources, not to mention it being quite ineffective and inefficient. We wanted to ...
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## Inspiration Our app idea brewed from a common shared stressor of networking challenges. Recognizing the lack of available mentorship and struggle to form connections effortlessly, we envisioned a platform that seamlessly paired mentors and students to foster meaningful connections. ## What it does mocha mentor is...
## Inspiration Our inspiration stems from a fundamental realization about the critical role food plays in our daily lives. We've observed a disparity, especially in the United States, where the quality and origins of food are often overshadowed, leading to concerns about the overall health impact on consumers. Severa...
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future. ## What inspired us We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work. ## Background If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te...
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## Inspiration Everyone learns in a different way. Whether it be from watching that YouTube tutorial series or scouring the textbook, each person responds to and processes knowledge very differently. We hoped to identify students’ learning styles and tailor educational material to the learner for two main reasons: one...
## Inspiration As college students more accustomed to having meals prepared by someone else than doing so ourselves, we are not the best at keeping track of ingredients’ expiration dates. As a consequence, money is wasted and food waste is produced, thereby discounting the financially advantageous aspect of cooking an...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create HackParty after extensive first-hand experience with the cumbersome nature of assembling a hackathon team on other social media platforms like Facebook, which were not expressly designed for that purpose. ## What it does HackParty provides users with the ability to keep trac...
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## Inspiration I wanted to make something that let me explore everything you need to do at a hackathon. ## What it does Currently, the web app stores and encrypts passwords onto a database hosted by cockroachDB with the "sign up" form. The web app also allows you to retrieve and decrypt your password with the "fetch...
## Inspiration We are tinkerers and builders who love getting our hands on new technologies. When we discovered that the Spot Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics was available to build our project upon, we devised different ideas about the real-world benefits of robot dogs. From a conversational companion to a navigational...
## Inspiration The inspiration for PhishNet stemmed from a growing frequency of receiving email phishing scams. As we rely on our emails for important information, such as with our career, academics, and so on, my team and I often encountered suspicious emails that raised doubts about their legitimacy. We realized the...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the health tracking functionality that FitBit gives their users and the nostalgia that the Tamagotchi virtual pets give their users. We wanted to mix the nostalgia with something new to create a fun way to motivate users to keep up with their daily steps. ## What it does Visit and ...
## Inspiration Our core idea revolves around the concept of providing private layers for Large Language Models (LLMs). We believe that privacy is essential in today's data-driven world, and centralized solutions are not sufficient. Our inspiration stems from envisioning a future where anyone can deploy their own Anony...
## Inspiration Our biggest inspiration came from our grandparents, who often felt lonely and struggled to find help. Specifically, one of us have a grandpa with dementia. He lives alone and finds it hard to receive help since most of his relatives live far away and he has reduced motor skills. Knowing this, we were de...
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## Inspiration Imagine a world where learning is as easy as having a conversation with a friend. Picture a tool that unlocks the treasure trove of educational content on YouTube, making it accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or expertise. This is exactly what our hackathon project brings to life. *...
## Inspiration All of us have gone through the painstaking and difficult process of onboarding as interns and making sense of huge repositories with many layers of folders and files. We hoped to shorten this or remove it completely through the use of Code Flow. ## What it does Code Flow exists to speed up onboarding...
## 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...
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## Inspiration There is one thing we all definitely miss during this time of social distancing, which is not being able to hang out with our friends and/or family, at least not in a huge group. Those birthday surprises, dinner parties, graduation celebrations, and such occasions commemorating various special days of o...
# Project Story: AI Email Summarization Tool As avid email users, we always found ourselves spending countless hours sorting through our inboxes. It was a tedious and time-consuming task that left us feeling overwhelmed and stressed. That's when we had the idea to build an AI email summarization tool that could make o...
## Inspiration When the first experimental COVID-19 vaccine became available in China, hundreds of people started queuing outside hospitals, waiting to get that vaccine. Imagine this on a planetary scale when the whole everybody has to be vaccinated all around the world. There's a big chance while queuing they can spr...
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## Inspiration We see technology progressing rapidly in cool fields like virtual reality, social media and artificial intelligence but often neglect those who really need tech to make a difference in their lives. SignFree aims to bridge the gap between the impaired and the general public by making it easier for every...
## Inspiration Over 70 million people around the world use sign language as their native form of communication. 70 million voices who were unable to be fully recognized in today’s society. This disparity inspired our team to develop a program that will allow for real-time translation of sign language into a text displ...
Currently, about 600,000 people in the United States have some form of hearing impairment. Through personal experiences, we understand the guidance necessary to communicate with a person through ASL. Our software eliminates this and promotes a more connected community - one with a lower barrier entry for sign language ...
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## Inspiration Each living in a relatively suburban area, we are often quite confused when walking through larger cities. We can each associate with the frustration of not being able to find what seems to be even the simplest of things: a restroom nearby or a parking space we have been driving around endlessly to find...
In the public imagination, the year 1956 brings to mind a number of things – foremost the Hungarian Revolution, and its subsequent bloody suppression. Those of a certain vintage would recall the Suez Crisis, or the debut album of Elvis Presley. But those in the know would associate 1956 with the Dartmouth workshop, of...
## Inspiration We wanted to use Livepeer's features to build a unique streaming experience for gaming content for both streamers and viewers. Inspired by Twitch, we wanted to create a platform that increases exposure for small and upcoming creators and establish a more unified social ecosystem for viewers, allowing t...
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## Inspiration Over 50 million people suffer from epilepsy worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological diseases. With the rise in digital adoption, people who suffer from epilepsy are at risk from online videos that may trigger seizure responses. This can have adverse health effects on the lives of epilep...
## Inspiration <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuOxQzDN3Y> Robbie's story stuck out to me at the endless limitations of technology. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy which prevented him from having full control of his arms and legs. He was gifted with a Google home that crafted his home into a voice controlle...
## Inspiration There are approximately **10 million** Americans who suffer from visual impairment, and over **5 million Americans** suffer from Alzheimer's dementia. This weekend our team decided to help those who were not as fortunate. We wanted to utilize technology to create a positive impact on their quality of li...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration came from seeing how overwhelming managing finances can be, especially for students and young professionals. Many struggle to track spending, stick to budgets, and plan for the future, often due to a lack of accessible tools or financial literacy. So, we decided to build a solution that...
## Inspiration Everyone on our team comes from a family of newcomers and just as it is difficult to come into a new country, we had to adapt very quickly to the Canadian system. Our team took this challenge as an opportunity to create something that our communities could deeply benefit from when they arrive in Canada....
## Inspiration We wanted to make an app that helped people to be more environmentally conscious. After we thought about it, we realised that most people are not because they are too lazy to worry about recycling, turning off unused lights, or turning off a faucet when it's not in use. We figured that if people saw how...
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## Inspiration Wanted to do the funny track :)) ## What it does LLMs roast each other ## How we built it Claude, GPT, and LLAMA ## Challenges we ran into Pivoting last minute ## Accomplishments that we're proud of ## What we learned Not to pivot too last minute. ## What's next for BurnGPT More user involvem...
**What inspired us** Despite the prevalence of LLMs increasing, their power still hasn't been leveraged to improve the experience of students during class. In particular, LLMs are often discouraged by professors, often because they often give inaccurate or too much information. To remedy this issue, we created an LLM t...
## Inspiration Algorithm interviews... suck. They're more a test of sanity (and your willingness to "grind") than a true performance indicator. That being said, large language models (LLMs) like Cohere and ChatGPT are rather *good* at doing LeetCode, so why not make them do the hard work...? Introduce: CheetCode. Our...
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## 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...
**DO YOU** hate standing at the front of a line at a restaurant and not knowing what to choose? **DO YOU** want to know how restaurants are dealing with COVID-19? **DO YOU** have fat fingers and hate typing on your phone's keyboard? Then Sizzle is the perfect app for you! ## Inspiration We wanted to create a fast way...
## Inspiration We started **TimeLy** because we noticed a lot of useful information was hidden in the feedback and grades of courses offered in **Stony Brook University**. This information was not being used to its full potential. We believed that if this data could be understood easily, it would help students pick th...
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## About Learning a foreign language can pose challenges, particularly without opportunities for conversational practice. Enter SpyLingo! Enhance your language proficiency by engaging in missions designed to extract specific information from targets. You select a conversation topic, and the spy agency devises a set of...
## Inspiration Our biggest inspiration for this project was to find a way to express or encapsulate almost “typical” human emotions visually through immersive art. There are so many different ways to express emotions, but our main focus was to work on a high-powered hardware project combining hardware (Arduino) and so...
## Inspiration Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver...
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## Inspiration Being disorganized can put a strain on your productivity and mental health. Since all of us have dealt with this before we wanted to create an application that would increase our productivity, while being user-friendly, and quick. If we knew what we had to do throughout the day, but it impedes with our ...
## Inspiration We all know that you shouldn't simply throw away used batteries or broken lightbulbs in the bin. But we also know that we might often be too lazy to go all the way to a recycling centre for a couple of batteries. The solution? Lazy disposal! ## What it does Submit the items you want to get rid of in a...
**In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.** ## Inspiration Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen...
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## Inspiration Digitized conversations have given the hearing impaired and other persons with disabilities the ability to better communicate with others despite the barriers in place as a result of their disabilities. Through our app, we hope to build towards a solution where we can extend the effects of technological...
## Inspiration 1 in 2 Canadians will personally experience a mental health issue by age 40, with minority communities at a greater risk. As the mental health epidemic surges and support at its capacity, we sought to build something to connect trained volunteer companions with people in distress in several ways for con...
## Inspiration According to the American Psychological Association, one in three college freshmen worldwide suffer from mental health disorders. As freshmen, this issue is close to our hearts as we witness some of our peers struggle with adjusting to college life. We hope to help people understand how their daily acti...
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## Inspiration this is a project which is given to me by an organization and my collegues inspierd me to do this project ## What it does It can remind what we have to do in future and also set time when it is to be done ## How we built it I built it using command time utility in python programming ## Challenges w...
## Inspiration Ever join a project only to be overwhelmed by all of the open tickets? Not sure which tasks you should take on to increase the teams overall productivity? As students, we know the struggle. We also know that this does not end when school ends and in many different work environments you may encounter the...
## Inspiration We wanted to ease the workload and and increase the organization of students when it comes to scheduling and completing tasks. This way, they have one, organized platform where they can store all of the tasks they need to get done, and they can have fun with it by earning points and purchasing features!...
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## 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...
## Inspiration Physiotherapy is expensive for what it provides you with, A therapist stepping you through simple exercises and giving feedback and evaluation? WE CAN TOTALLY AUTOMATE THAT! We are undergoing the 4th industrial revolution and technology exists to help people in need of medical aid despite not having the...
## Inspiration One of our team members is a community manager for a real estate development group that often has trouble obtaining certifications in their attempts to develop eco-friendly buildings. The trouble that they go through, leaves them demotivated because of the cost and effort, leading them to avoid the proc...
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## Inspiration There's something about brief glints in the past that just stop you in your tracks: you dip down, pick up an old DVD of a movie while you're packing, and you're suddenly brought back to the innocent and carefree joy of when you were a kid. It's like comfort food. So why not leverage this to make money?...
## Inspiration As avid readers, we wanted a tool to track our reading metrics. As a child, one of us struggled with concentrating and focusing while reading. Specifically, there was a strong tendency to zone out. Our app provides the ability for a user to track their reading metrics and also quantify their progress in...
## Inspiration 💡 Our inspiration for this project was to leverage new AI technologies such as text to image, text generation and natural language processing to enhance the education space. We wanted to harness the power of machine learning to inspire creativity and improve the way students learn and interact with edu...
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### 💡 Inspiration 💡 We call them heroes, **but the support we give them is equal to the one of a slave.** Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of medics have to keep track of their patient's history, symptoms, and possible diseases. However, we've talked with a lot of medics, and almost all of them share the same...
## Inspiration Both chronic pain disorders and opioid misuse are on the rise, and the two are even more related than you might think -- over 60% of people who misused prescription opioids did so for the purpose of pain relief. Despite the adoption of PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) in 49 states, the US s...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Medisync came from observing the extensive time patients and medical staff spend on filling out and processing medical forms. We noticed a significant delay in treatment initiation due to this paperwork. Our goal was to streamline this process, making healthcare more efficient and...
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## Inspiration Many people feel unconfident, shy, and/or awkward doing interview speaking. It can be challenging for them to know how to improve and what aspects are key to better performance. With Talkology, they will be able to practice in a rather private setting while receiving relatively objective speaking feedba...
> > Domain.com domain: IDE-asy.com > > > ## Inspiration Software engineering and development have always been subject to change over the years. With new tools, frameworks, and languages being announced every year, it can be challenging for new developers or students to keep up with the new trends the technological in...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind FaceWatch was a compelling desire to tackle rising bike thefts in Kingston. We aimed to create a solution that transcended conventional approaches, leveraging facial recognition technology to enhance community safety. ## What it does FaceWatch is a versatile facial recognition s...
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## Inspiration We are currently living through one of the largest housing crises in human history. As a result, more Canadians than ever before are seeking emergency shelter to stay off the streets and find a safe place to recuperate. However, finding a shelter is still a challenging, manual process, where no digital ...
## Inspiration Globally, one in ten people do not know how to interpret their feelings. There's a huge global shift towards sadness and depression. At the same time, AI models like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion are creating beautiful works of art, completely automatically. Our team saw the opportunity to leverage AI ima...
## 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...
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## Inspiration ## What it does TrackIt! is a universal add-on for tripods that keeps the specified target in view of the camera. Any object can be selected, from humans to animals to even soccer balls. This allows for hands free recording. Gone are the days where people must view the world through a digital lens whil...
## Inspiration As some of our team members have little siblings, we understand the struggle of living with them! So, now that we're in university, we've grown to miss all of their little quirks. So, why not bring them back? ## What it does Our robot searches for people, and once found, will track them and move towar...
## Inspiration: We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world. ## What it does: Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o...
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## Inspiration We were intriguied by the City of London's Open Data portal and wanted to see what we could do with it. We also wanted to give back to the city, which houses UWO and Hack Western, as well as many of our friends. With The London Bridge, we aim to enable communication between the community and its citizen...
**In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.** ## Inspiration Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen...
# Inspiration I recently got attached to Beat Saber so I thought I'd be fun to build something similar to it. # Objective The objective of the game is to score higher than your opponent. Points are scored if a player triggers a hitbox when a note is in contact with it. **Points Chart:** **Green:** Perfect hit! The...
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## Inspiration As Chinese military general Sun Tzu's famously said: "Every battle is won before it is fought." The phrase implies that planning and strategy - not the battles - win wars. Similarly, successful traders commonly quote the phrase: "Plan the trade and trade the plan." ![Chess](https://investment-hero.hero...
## Inspiration We want people to make right decision at right time so that they can get returns on their investments and trading in stock market. ## What it does It will enable to invest and trade in the stock by using HFT and technical analysis techniques. The product will have large scale applications in situation...
## Inspiration Prolonged covid restrictions have caused immense damage to the economy and local markets alike. Shifts in this economic landscape have led to many individuals seeking alternate sources of income to account for the losses imparted by lack of work or general opportunity. One major sector that has seen a b...
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## Inspiration The amount of data in the world today is mind-boggling. We are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day at our current pace, but the pace is only accelerating with the growth of IoT. We felt that the world was missing a smart find-feature for videos. To unlock heaps of important data from vid...
## Motivation Coding skills are in high demand and will soon become a necessary skill for nearly all industries. Jobs in STEM have grown by 79 percent since 1990, and are expected to grow an additional 13 percent by 2027, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. This provides strong motivation for educators to ...
## Inspiration The idea arose from the current political climate. At a time where there is so much information floating around, and it is hard for people to even define what a fact is, it seemed integral to provide context to users during speeches. ## What it does The program first translates speech in audio into te...
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## 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 We want to fix healthcare! 48% of physicians in the US are burned out, which is a driver for higher rates of medical error, lower patient satisfaction, higher rates of depression and suicide. Three graduate students at Stanford have been applying design thinking to the burnout epidemic. A CS grad from U...
## Inspiration In this era, with medicines being readily available for consumption, people take on pills without even consulting with a specialist to find out what diagnosis they have. We have created this project to find out what specific illnesses that a person can be diagnosed with, so that they can seek out the co...
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# Lumio AI Glass - Enhancing Accessibility for the Visually Impaired ## Inspiration The inspiration for Lumio AI Glass was born out of a desire to make a meaningful impact on the lives of visually impaired individuals. We recognized the daily challenges faced by people with visual impairments and aimed to leverage cu...
## Inspiration Integration for patients into society: why can't it be achieved? This is due to the lack of attempts to combine medical solutions and the perspectives of patients in daily use. More specifically, we notice fields in aid to visual disabilities lack efficiency, as the most common option for patients with ...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a proof-of-concept for a potentially useful device that could be used commercially and at a large scale. We ultimately designed to focus on the agricultural industry as we feel that there's a lot of innovation possible in this space. ## What it does The PowerPlant uses sensors to d...
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## 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 Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves. ## What it does The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c...
## Introduction Our innovative AI utilizes cutting-edge technology to analyze your facial expressions and speech through your webcam and microphone. Once you start interacting, the AI will adapt its responses according to your emotions and engagement level, providing a unique, immersive, and engaging conversational ex...
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## Inspiration Let's face it: Museums, parks, and exhibits need some work in this digital era. Why lean over to read a small plaque when you can get a summary and details by tagging exhibits with a portable device? There is a solution for this of course: NFC tags are a fun modern technology, and they could be used to ...
## Inspiration As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe...
## Inspiration Whenever I go on vacation, what I always fondly look back on is the sights and surroundings of specific moments. What if there was a way to remember these associations by putting them on a map to look back on? We strived to locate a problem, and then find a solution to build up from. What if instead of ...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for **steersafe** came from a desire to make a tangible impact, particularly in the dense urban areas where we live and commute daily as students. Car crashes, especially those caused by distracted driving, are a universal issue that us as college students relate to firsthand, often witn...
## Inspiration Did you know that traffic accidents are the leading cause of mortality in America? According to the US Department of Transportation, there are over 6 million automotive crashes each year. 60% of these 6 million could have been prevented had the driver been alerted a mere half second before the collision...
## Problem Statement As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025. The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ...
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## Inspiration Have you ever been bored at work, but your boss is constantly peering over your shoulder? RetroReddit is here to save you!!! Now you look like you're doing work, but you're actually browsing Reddit consuming the dankest of memes. Be the bon vivant of fine memes in your office today!!! Look busy while do...
## Inspiration We were all chronically addicted to Reddit, and all the productivity extensions out there took a "cold turkey" approach. We felt like our method of gradual addiction treatment is more effective. ## What it does Over time, we slowly remove elements on reddit that are addicting (CTA's, voting counters, ...
## Inspiration YouTube money $$ encourages content creators to utilize click bait titles and other SEO tactics to receive the most views. That results in a less favorable search experience. ## What it does Allows you to search for videos based on what is actually SAID in the video. Imagine if videos were actually ju...
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## Inspiration At reFresh, we are a group of students looking to revolutionize the way we cook and use our ingredients so they don't go to waste. Today, America faces a problem of food waste. Waste of food contributes to the acceleration of global warming as more produce is needed to maintain the same levels of demand...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
## Inspiration Looking around you in your day-to-day life you see so many people eating so much food. Trust me, this is going somewhere. All that stuff we put in our bodies, what is it? What are all those ingredients that seem more like chemicals that belong in nuclear missiles over your 3 year old cousins Coke? Answe...
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## Inspiration Our team was inspired to develop Argumate by YouTube channels such as Jubilee which brought together people with diametrically opposing views and gave them a platform to argue their view. With Argumate, we seek to provide a similar platform online that, contrary to most social medias nowadays, brings to...
## Inspiration Though social media has made it easier and faster than ever to connect people, the U.S. is now more divided than ever – politically, economically, and socially. While social media is likely only one of many contributing factors to this, our goal for this project was to try to reimagine how people tradit...
## Inspiration It feels like elections are taking up an increasing portion of our mindshare, with every election cycle it only gets more insane. Constantly flooded by news, by opinions – it's like we never get a break. And yet, paradoxically, voters feel increasingly less connected to their politicians. They hear soli...
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## Inspiration With the recent Corona Virus outbreak, we noticed a major issue in charitable donations of equipment/supplies ending up in the wrong hands or are lost in transit. How can donors know their support is really reaching those in need? At the same time, those in need would benefit from a way of customizing w...
## Inspiration One of our own member's worry about his puppy inspired us to create this project, so he could keep an eye on him. ## What it does Our app essentially monitors your dog(s) and determines their mood/emotional state based on their sound and body language, and optionally notifies the owner about any chang...
## Inspiration **Addressing a Dual-Faceted Issue in Philanthropy to Support UN Sustainability Goals** Charity Chain was inspired by the pervasive issues of mistrust and inefficiency in the philanthropic sector - a problem affecting both donors and charities. By recognizing this gap, we aimed to create a solution that ...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for Sustain-ify came from observing the current state of our world. Despite incredible advancements in technology, science, and industry, we've created a world that's becoming increasingly unsustainable. This has a domino effect, not just on the environment, but on our own health and wel...
Mafia with LLMs! Built with Python/React/Typescript/Websockets and Cartesia/Groq/Gemini.
## Inspiration Learning about some environmental impact of the retail industry led us to wonder about what companies have aimed for in terms of sustainability goals. The textile industry is notorious for its carbon and water footprints with statistics widely available. How does a company promote sustainability? Do peo...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for MakeCents originated from our collective mutual passion in both finance and software. We understand how good we have it here at Western and the availability of information, but its important to look at the world around you from time to time and realize what we take for granted. We un...
## Inspiration 🚀 Every student knows that feeling of utter panic when you're in your 8AM lecture, severely sleep deprived and blanking out...what did the prof just say? I guess we'll never know. Based on our *highly researched* data, we concluded quickly that students nowadays are some of the most easily distracted s...
## ✨ 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...
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## Inspiration Every year, millions of people around the world choose not to recycle because they don't know how! We wanted to simplify recycling for the public. ## What it does Robot Recycler uses a Kinect to search for recyclables, then either puts things in the trash, or the recycling! It's that easy! ## How I b...
## Inspiration Are you a student? Have you experienced the struggle of trawling through rooms on campus to find a nice, quiet space to study? Well, worry no more because Study Space aims to create an intelligent solution to this decade old problem! ## What it does Study Space is an app that keeps track of the number...
## Inspiration Waste Management: Despite having bins with specific labels, people often put waste into wrong bins which lead to unnecessary plastic/recyclables in landfills. ## What it does Uses Raspberry Pi, Google vision API and our custom classifier to categorize waste and automatically sorts and puts them into r...
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## 🌟**Inspiration** 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 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...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project came from the group's passion to build health related apps. While blindness is not necessarily something we can heal, it is something that we can combat with technology. ## What it does This app gives blind individuals the ability to live life with the same ease as any...
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## Inspiration Proximity was born from the realization that despite our hyper-connected digital world, many people feel disconnected from those physically around them. We wanted to create a platform that bridges the gap between online social networking and real-world interactions, encouraging people to form meaningful...
## Inspiration The inspiration for Hangout came during my trip to Toronto for a hackathon. I(Rishi) spent three days feeling bored, believing I didn’t have any friends nearby. After leaving, I realized I had several friends in the area and could have had a much more enjoyable time if I had known. This experience spark...
## Inspiration It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic ruined most of our social lives. ARoom presents an opportunity to boost your morale by supporting you to converse with your immediate neighbors and strangers in a COVID safe environment. ## What it does Our app is designed to help you bring your video chat exp...
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## Inspiration Everyone in society is likely going to buy a home at some point in their life. They will most likely meet realtors, see a million listings, gather all the information they can about the area, and then make a choice. But why make the process so complicated? MeSee lets users pick and recommend regions of...
## Inspiration As recent or soon to be graduates, we personally understand the desire to relocate and expand our world views. There is so much potential out there, but it's hard to know what city is best as we all have unique needs and wants. ## What it does By gathering aspects that students care about when researc...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ...
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## We wanted to help the invisible people of Toronto, many homeless people do not have identification and often have a hard time keeping it due to their belongings being stolen. This prevents many homeless people to getting the care that they need and the access to resources that an ordinary person does not need to thi...
## Inspiration Suppose we go out for a run early in the morning without our wallet and cellphone, our service enables banking systems to use facial recognition as a means of payment enabling us to go cashless and cardless. ## What it does It uses deep neural networks in the back end to detect faces at point of sale ...
## 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...
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## Check it out on GitHub! The machine learning and web app segments are split into 2 different branches. Make sure to switch to these branches to see the source code! You can view the repository [here](https://github.com/SuddenlyBananas/be-right-back/). ## Inspiration Inspired in part by the Black Mirror episode of...
## Inspiration Falls are the leading cause of injury and death among seniors in the US and cost over $60 billion in medical expenses every year. With every one in four seniors in the US experiencing a fall each year, attempts at prevention are badly needed and are currently implemented through careful monitoring and c...
## 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...
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# cirkvito Ever wanna quickly check your Intro to CS Logic course homework without firin' up the ol' Quartus-Beast? Love circuits, but hate Java applets? Or maybe you're dying to make yourself a shiny half-adder but don't have the time (or dexterity) to fashion one out of physical components? ## Inspo Enter *cirkvit...
## 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 The inspiration of our game came from the arcade game Cyclone, where the goal is to click the button when the LED lands on a signaled part of the circle. ## What it does The goal of our game is to click the button when the LED reaches a designated part of the circle (the very last LED). Upon successfu...
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## Inspiration There are very small but impactful ways to be eco-conscious 🌱 in your daily life, like using reusable bags, shopping at thrift stores, or carpooling. We know one thing for certain; people love rewards ✨. So we thought, how can we reward people for eco-conscious behaviour such as taking the bus or shopp...
## Inspiration With the effects of climate change becoming more and more apparent, we wanted to make a tool that allows users to stay informed on current climate events and stay safe by being warned of nearby climate warnings. ## What it does Our web app has two functions. One of the functions is to show a map of th...
## Inspiration Some things can only be understood through experience, and Virtual Reality is the perfect medium for providing new experiences. VR allows for complete control over vision, hearing, and perception in a virtual world, allowing our team to effectively alter the senses of immersed users. We wanted to manipu...
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![BulletinVR Logo](https://github.com/k3vnchen/bulletin-webvr/blob/master/project/static/assets/blong_large.png?raw=true) ## Inspiration Social anxiety affects hundreds of thousands of people and can negatively impact social interaction and mental health. Around campuses and schools, we were inspired by bulletin boar...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a device that ease the life of people who have disabilities and with AR becoming mainstream it would only be proper to create it. ## What it does Our AR Headset converts speech to text and then displays it realtime on the monitor to allow the user to read what the other person is t...
## Inspiration The idea for VenTalk originated from an everyday stressor that everyone on our team could relate to; commuting alone to and from class during the school year. After a stressful work or school day, we want to let out all our feelings and thoughts, but do not want to alarm or disturb our loved ones. Relea...
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## Inspiration I'm lazy and voice recognition / nlp continues to blow my mind with its accuracy. ## What it does Using Voice recognition and Natural Language Processing you can talk to your browser and it will do your bidding, no hands required! I also built in "Demonstration" so if ever the AI doesn't do what you w...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the recent interest of many companies in drone delivery and drone search. In particular, we wanted to bring drone abilities to the consumer – and we ended up doing even more. There are many applications that can stem from our work, from search and rescue missions, drone delivery, or...
## Inspiration Long waiting queues! Who would like to speed up processes that take forevvveeerrrrrrrrrr.... We were imagining to ourselves: * What is the single-handed most annoying thing that everyone has to deal with from time-to-time? * Would speeding up the process make it more efficient for others? * How importa...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for InstaPresent came from our frustration with constantly having to create presentations for class and being inspired by the 'in-game advertising' episode on Silicon Valley. ## What it does InstaPresent is a tool that uses your computer's microphone to generate a presentation in real-...
## Check it out on GitHub! The machine learning and web app segments are split into 2 different branches. Make sure to switch to these branches to see the source code! You can view the repository [here](https://github.com/SuddenlyBananas/be-right-back/). ## Inspiration Inspired in part by the Black Mirror episode of...
## Where we got the spark? **No one is born without talents**. We all get this situation in our childhood, No one gets a chance to reveal their skills and gets guided for their ideas. Some skills are buried without proper guidance, we don't even have mates to talk about it and develop our skills in the respective fiel...
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## What it does Think "virtual vision stick on steroids"! It is a wearable device that AUDIBLY provides visually impaired people with information on the objects in front of them as well as their proximity. ## How we built it We used computer vision from Python and OpenCV to recognize objects such as "chair" and "per...
## Inspiration The idea was to help people who are blind, to be able to discretely gather context during social interactions and general day-to-day activities ## What it does The glasses take a picture and analyze them using Microsoft, Google, and IBM Watson's Vision Recognition APIs and try to understand what is ha...
## Inspiration About 0.2 - 2% of the population suffers from deaf-blindness and many of them do not have the necessary resources to afford accessible technology. This inspired us to build a low cost tactile, braille based system that can introduce accessibility into many new situations that was previously not possible...
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## Inspiration and what it does I understand that medical conditions for some people can already be a pain in their daily life. What doesn't make it better is when you have to be extra cautious while shopping since some ingredients may have an adverse reaction due to your medical condition. That’s why I created CareS...
## Inspiration Many of us, including our peers, struggle on deciding what to cook. We usually have a fridge full of items but are not sure what exactly to make with those items. This leads us to eating outside or buying even more groceries to follow along to a recipe. * We want to be able to use what we have * Reduce...
## Inspiration Almost 2.2 million tonnes of edible food is discarded each year in Canada alone, resulting in over 17 billion dollars in waste. A significant portion of this is due to the simple fact that keeping track of expiry dates for the wide range of groceries we buy is, put simply, a huge task. While brainstormi...
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## Inspiration being students and always on the move between internships and school terms, finding good housing for the semesters have always been a tough task. We wanted to streamline and minimize the process, allowing users to have a more pleasant experience finding their next home. ## What it does User signs up f...
## Inspiration: We were looking for housing around our college when we thought of this idea. ## What does it do? An interactive map suggests housing according to the office/college location. It shows the time to travel and the approximate cost of commuting via Driving. ## How we built it? NPM, React.js, and several G...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Selina was desperately trying to get to PennApps on Friday after she disembarked her Greyhound. Alas, she had forgotten that only Bolt Bus and Megabus end their journeys directly next to the University of Pennsylvania, so she was a full 45 minute walk away from Penn Engineering. Full of hope, she approa...
## Inspiration *"I have an old Nokia mobile phones, that doesn't have internet access nor acess to download & install the Lyft app; How can I still get access to Lyft?"* > > Allow On-Demand Services Like Uber, Lyft to be more mainstream in developing world where there is limitied to no internet access. Lyft-powered S...
*EduQueue presents a clean and minimalistic solution to waiting in line for office hours!* ## Inspiration Overcrowded office hours are frustrating for **both students and instructors** Neglected students and overwhelmed instructors do not create an effective learning environment. ## What it does * EduQueue is a web...
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## Inspiration We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin...
## Inspiration As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone...
## Inspiration Inspiration As a junior software engineer, I've always been fascinated by the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative expression. This project was born out of my passion for both music and visual art, and the desire to explore how AI can bridge these two worlds. I saw it as perfect for Inte...
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## Hackers Scott Blender and Jackie Gan ## Inspiration This project was inspired by a book called "Hacking Healthcare". It discussed innovations and changes that were needed in the healthcare field and explained how human-centered design can make a positive impact in the field. This project seeks to use human-center...
## We wanted to help the invisible people of Toronto, many homeless people do not have identification and often have a hard time keeping it due to their belongings being stolen. This prevents many homeless people to getting the care that they need and the access to resources that an ordinary person does not need to thi...
**Inspiration** Brought up in his rural hometown of Faizabad in India, one of our team members has seen several villagers unable to access modern medical advice. This often led to unfortunate catastrophes that could have been prevented easily. To answer the medical information needs of the lower-income section of soci...
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## Inspiration Discord is a text and voice communication tool that has quickly grew in popularity. It started out as a communication tool for online gaming and has then shifted its focus over the years to becoming an all-purpose communication tool. With the rise of "Work from home" culture and online socializing, Disc...
## Inspiration Being certified in Standard First Aid, we personally know the great difference that quick intervention can have on a victim. For example, according to the American Heart Association, if CPR is performed in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest, it can double or triple a person's chance of survival. Un...
View presentation at the following link: <https://youtu.be/Iw4qVYG9r40> ## Inspiration During our brainstorming stage, we found that, interestingly, two-thirds (a majority, if I could say so myself) of our group took medication for health-related reasons, and as a result, had certain external medications that result ...
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## Inspiration Hearing loss consistently ranks among the top five causes of years lived with a disability in Canada. Overall 60% of the Canadians aged 19 -79 have a hearing health problem. This can lead to hinderance in participation towards educational and employment opportunities. Currently almost all universities h...
The Wolf helps you follow the social scent of stocks. Curating sentiment data from Twitter and matching this against stock valuations, the Wolf looks for ongoing correlations between social sentiments and stock action. Like any loyal companion, the Wolf provides information on correlations, tracks daily baselines, and ...
## Inspiration Databases are wonderfully engineered for specific tasks. Every time someone wants to add a different type of data or use their data with different access pattern, they either need to either use a sub-optimal choice of database (one that they already support), or support a totally new database. The forme...
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## Inspiration In 2010, when Haiti was rocked by an earthquake that killed over 150,000 people, aid workers manned SMS help lines where victims could reach out for help. Even with the international humanitarian effort, there was not enough manpower to effectively handle the volume of communication. We set out to fix t...
## Inspiration As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe...
## Inspiration In times of disaster, the capacity of rigid networks like cell service and internet dramatically decreases at the same time demand increases as people try to get information and contact loved ones. This can lead to crippled telecom services which can significantly impact first responders in disaster str...
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## Inspiration Our journey with PathSense began with a deeply personal connection. Several of us have visually impaired family members, and we've witnessed firsthand the challenges they face navigating indoor spaces. We realized that while outdoor navigation has seen remarkable advancements, indoor environments remain...
## Inspiration During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w...
## Our Inspiration 🫡 We started by thinking about one of the biggest privileges we have—*the ability to see*. There are so many people out there who don’t have that privilege, and for those who are visually impaired, even daily tasks like navigating their environment can be challenging. Sure, there are tools like sma...
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## Inspiration --- I recently read Ben Sheridan's paper on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence where he argues that Ai is best used as a tool that accelerates humans rather than trying to *replace* them. We wanted to design a "super-tool" that meaningfully augmented a user's workday. We felt that current calendar ...
## Inspiration ### The problem: • Calendars are incredibly rigid. • Todo lists need to be used in tandem with something else to keep track of timing. • Solutions to this (specialized productivity apps) always seem to have incredibly large learning curves. ### The solution: We need a combined calendar and to-do list...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Since the pandemic, millions of people worldwide have turned to online alternatives to replace public fitness facilities and other physical activities. At-home exercises have become widely acknowledged, but the problem is that there is no way of telling whether people are doing the exercises accurately ...
## Inspiration We wanted to get better at sports, but we don't have that much time to perfect our moves. ## What it does Compares your athletic abilities to other users by building skeletons of both people and showing you where you can improve. Uses ML to compare your form to a professional's form. # Tells you imp...
## 💡 Inspiration * The pandemic has restricted us to stay at home and has taken a huge toll in our physical well-being * Exercising within our house boundaries is a real challenge. * We've developed a novel application to accurately track the count of certain curated indoor exercises and get the amount of calories bu...
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## Inspiration Post operative care drastically improves the quality of life of individuals who have undergone surgery. When completed routinely, post operative care not only increases the process of healing but also helps individuals regain their range of motion and return to their daily activities faster. So why do ...
# Check out our [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1K41ArhGy6HgdhWuWSoGtBkhscxycKVTnzTSsnapsv9o/edit#slide=id.g30ccbcf1a6f_0_150) and come over for a demo! ## Inspiration The inspiration for EYEdentity came from the need to enhance patient care through technology. Observing the challenges healthcare prof...
## 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...
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## Inspiration All of us have gone through the painstaking and difficult process of onboarding as interns and making sense of huge repositories with many layers of folders and files. We hoped to shorten this or remove it completely through the use of Code Flow. ## What it does Code Flow exists to speed up onboarding...
## Inspiration During my last internship, I worked on an aging product with numerous security vulnerabilities, but identifying and fixing these issues was a major challenge. One of my key projects was to implement CodeQL scanning to better locate vulnerabilities. While setting up CodeQL wasn't overly complex, it becam...
## 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...
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## Inspiration According to the Canadian Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, in Canada, an average of 4 people are killed every day as a result of impaired driving. In 2019, there were 1,346 deaths caused by impaired driving, which represents approximately 30% of all traffic-related deaths in Canada. Impaired dr...
## PENNAPPS SEMI FINALIST --- ## What is BOMO? BOMO is an AR mobile app that allows clinicians, coaches, and patients alike to easily quantify body movement. *You’re playing a game of intense basketball. As you are about to shoot the tie-breaking shot, you tear your ACL. You go to the doctor sulking in defeat, and ...
## Inspiration To spread the joy of swag collecting. ## What it does A Hack the North Simulator, specifically of the Sponsor Bay on the second floor. The player will explore sponsor booths, collecting endless amounts of swag along the way. A lucky hacker may stumble upon the elusive, exclusive COCKROACH TROPHY, or a...
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## Inspiration EV vehicles are environment friendly and yet it does not receive the recognition it deserves. Even today we do not find many users driving electric vehicles and we believe this must change. Our project aims to provide EV users with a travel route showcasing optimal (and functioning) charging stations to...
## Inspiration As a team we wanted to pursue a project that we could see as a creative solution to an important issue currently and may have a significant impact for the future. GM's sponsorship challenge provided us with the most exciting problem to tackle - overcoming the limitations in electric vehicle (EV) chargin...
## Inspiration - That annoying feeling when i ran out snack at midnight and have to go out in cold to buy them. ## What it does - Fully automates the process of buying grocery items from finding what is missing to ordering and delivering them at your doorstep ## How I built - Built the backend services with node.js, ...
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# [Try it out!](https://ipfe.elguindi.xyz) ## Inspiration Intrigued by the ability to access a large amount of data on the distributed network, we set out to classify files by similarity for interesting exploration. While there were powerful search tools like Google to access information on the web, we were unsure ho...
# 🎓 **Inspiration** Entering our **junior year**, we realized we were unprepared for **college applications**. Over the last couple of weeks, we scrambled to find professors to work with to possibly land a research internship. There was one big problem though: **we had no idea which professors we wanted to contact**....
## Inspiration With the ubiquitous and readily available ML/AI turnkey solutions, the major bottlenecks of data analytics lay in the consistency and validity of datasets. **This project aims to enable a labeller to be consistent with both their fellow labellers and their past self while seeing the live class distribut...
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## 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...
## Inspiration As university students and soon to be graduates, we understand the financial strain that comes along with being a student, especially in terms of commuting. Carpooling has been a long existing method of getting to a desired destination, but there are very few driving platforms that make the experience b...
## Inspiration During last year's World Wide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a host of new innovative frameworks (including but not limited to CoreML and ARKit) which placed traditionally expensive and complex operations such as machine learning and augmented reality in the hands of developers such as myself. ...
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## Inspiration We were trying for an IM cross MS paint experience, and we think it looks like that. ## What it does Users can create conversations with other users by putting a list of comma-separated usernames in the To field. ## How we built it We used Node JS combined with the Express.js web framework, Jade for...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project is the hot new app, Clubhouse. ## What it does Create individual rooms for different topics where people can have live discussions. ## How we built it We built it using Express and postgresql for the back end and React.js for the front end. ## Challenges we ran into...
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* [Deployment link](https://unifymd.vercel.app/) * [Pitch deck link](https://www.figma.com/deck/qvwPyUShfJbTfeoPSjVIGX/UnifyMD-Pitch-Deck?node-id=4-71) ## 🌟 Inspiration Long lists of patient records make it challenging to locate **relevant health data**. This can lead to doctors providing **inaccurate diagnoses** du...
# **MedKnight** #### Professional medical care in seconds, when the seconds matter ## Inspiration Natural disasters often put emergency medical responders (EMTs, paramedics, combat medics, etc.) in positions where they must assume responsibilities beyond the scope of their day-to-day job. Inspired by this reality, w...
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the frustration of managing medical data from multiple doctors. One of our teammates has a Primary Care Physician at MIT and another back home. When she attempted to compare lab results and diagnoses from both doctors, she found herself logging into separate portals and sifting...
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## Inspiration We've all experienced long wait times for drinks at the bar/club. There always seems to be a bottleneck due to the disproportionate ratio of understaffed bartenders to thirsty bar-goers. We wanted to create a practical but fun way to tackle this problem. ## What it does McBrews is a bar concept which ...
## Inspiration: Fake news has been a growing issue in the past few years. Many companies get targeted by trolls who post fake news which can have damaging impact on their financing. ## What it does: FibStock is an educational attribution platform designed to help users understand the impact of fake news on company s...
# The Ultimate Water Heater February 2018 ## Authors This is the TreeHacks 2018 project created by Amarinder Chahal and Matthew Chan. ## About Drawing inspiration from a diverse set of real-world information, we designed a system with the goal of efficiently utilizing only electricity to heat and pre-heat water as...
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## Inspiration Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su...
## Inspiration for Creating sketch-it Art is fundamentally about the process of creation, and seeing as many of us have forgotten this, we are inspired to bring this reminder to everyone. In this world of incredibly sophisticated artificial intelligence models (many of which can already generate an endless supply of a...
## Inspiration The other day, I heard my mom, a math tutor, tell her students "I wish you were here so I could give you some chocolate prizes!" We wanted to bring this incentive program back, even among COVID, so that students can have a more engaging learning experience. ## What it does The student will complete a ...
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## Inspiration The Roomba's a great product for cleaning your house, but there's a lot more you can do with it - and a lot of potential to make it smarter. We realized that a Roomba serves as a precise and convenient motorized based for a moving platform. One of us owned a similar product - a knockoff Eufy - so we wan...
## Inspiration We were really excited to hear about the self-driving bus Olli using IBM's Watson. However, one of our grandfather's is rather forgetful due to his dementia, and because of this would often forget things on a bus if he went alone. Memory issues like this would prevent him, and many people like him, from...
## Inspiration We are a group of students passionate about automation and pet companions. However, it is not always feasible to own a live animal as a busy engineer. The benefits of personal companionship are plentiful, including decreased blood pressure. Automation is the way of the future. We developed routines usin...
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## We wanted to build a smart TrashCan ## The trashcan's lid opens when an object reaches the ultrasonic sensor, assuming a quiz question has been answered correctly ## It was built using Coffee cups, and other recycled items. Arduino and other electronic components ## Challenges we ran into was finding a mechanical...
The idea started with the desire to implement a way to throw trash away efficiently and in an environmentally friendly way. Sometimes, it is hard to know what bin trash might go to due to time or carelessness. Even though there are designated spots to throw different type of garbage, it is still not 100% reliable as yo...
## Inspiration Every year roughly 25% of recyclable material is not able to be recycled due to contamination. We set out to reduce the amount of things that are needlessly sent to the landfill by reducing how much people put the wrong things into recycling bins (i.e. no coffee cups). ## What it does This project is ...
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## Inspiration While working with a Stanford PhD student to do work in Natural Language Processing, I was pointed to a paper that outlines a lightweight model which very effectively translates between languages. The average size for the saved weights of TensorFlow models are only about 5KB. Suddenly, it hit me--**what...
## Inspiration It has always been very time consuming to dedicate time to learning a new language. Many of the traditional methods often involve studying words in a dull static environment. Our experience has shown that this is not always the best or most fun way to learn new languages in a way that makes it "stick". ...
**Made by Ella Smith (ella#4637) & Akram Hannoufa (ak\_hannou#7596) -- Team #15** *Domain: <https://www.birtha.online/>* ## Inspiration Conversations with friends and family about the difficulty of finding the right birth control pill on the first try. ## What it does Determines the brand of hormonal contraceptive...
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## Inspiration Learning never ends. It's the cornerstone of societal progress and personal growth. It helps us make better decisions, fosters further critical thinking, and facilitates our contribution to the collective wisdom of humanity. Learning transcends the purpose of solely acquiring knowledge. ## What it does...
## Inspiration The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi...
**Made by Ella Smith (ella#4637) & Akram Hannoufa (ak\_hannou#7596) -- Team #15** *Domain: <https://www.birtha.online/>* ## Inspiration Conversations with friends and family about the difficulty of finding the right birth control pill on the first try. ## What it does Determines the brand of hormonal contraceptive...
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## Inspiration Being introduced to financial strategies, many are skeptical simply because they can't imagine a significant reward for smarter spending. ## What it does * Gives you financial advice based on your financial standing (how many credit cards you have, what the limits are, whether you're married or single...
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from seeing how overwhelming managing finances can be, especially for students and young professionals. Many struggle to track spending, stick to budgets, and plan for the future, often due to a lack of accessible tools or financial literacy. So, we decided to build a solution that...
## Inspiration In the hustle and bustle of student life, maintaining financial clarity can be a demanding task. We found that many of us were losing sight of where our hard-earned money was actually going, leading to missed opportunities for savings and smarter spending. Inspired by the need for a seamless, intuitive ...
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## Inspiration We were interested in machine learning and data analytics and decided to pursue a real-world application that could prove to have practical use for society. Many themes of this project were inspired by hip-hop artist Cardi B. ## What it does Money Moves analyzes data about financial advisors and their...
## Inspiration Ever felt a shock by thinking where did your monthly salary or pocket money go by the end of a month? When Did you spend it? Where did you spend all of it? and Why did you spend it? How to save and not make that same mistake again? There has been endless progress and technical advancements in how we de...
## Inspiration The inspiration for Med2Meals sprang from the universal truth that food is more than just sustenance; it's medicine, comfort, and a catalyst for connection. In today's fast-paced world, we've seen an increasing reliance on pharmaceutical solutions to health issues, often overlooking the holistic benefit...
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## Inspiration Our main goal was to pursue our combined passion for learning lyrics to our favorite songs! We wanted to create a way to test our knowledge of our favorite lyrics in a fun way. ## What it does Lyric Master is a game that allows you to choose what type of songs you want to be tested on, whether it be b...
## Inspiration During the early stages of the hackathon, we were listening to music as a group, and were trying to select some songs. However, we were all in slightly different moods and so were feeling different kinds of music. We realized that our current moods played a significant impact in the kind of music we lik...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create this as being computer science students we are always looking for opportunities to leverage our passion for technology by helping others. ## What it does Think In Sync is a platform that uses groundbreaking AI to make learning more accessible. It has features that enable it ...
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## Inspiration Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ...
## Inspiration (<http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mr_robot.jpg>) If you watch Mr. Robot, then you know that the main character, Elliot, deals with some pretty serious mental health issues. One of his therapeutic techniques is to write his thoughts on a private journal. They're great... they g...
## Inspiration We felt the world could always use more penguins, so we decided to bring more penguins to the world. ## What it does It spawns penguins. ## How we built it We compiled over 40 images of penguins from the internet. ## Challenges we ran into We fell asleep :( ## Accomplishments that we're proud of ...
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## Inspiration Informa’s customers want to understand what new technologies will be most relevant to their businesses. This is also more “hype” around technologies. Therefore, it is increasingly important for companies to stay informed about emerging technologies. ## What it does Marble Grapes display the most relev...
## Inspiration Students often do not have a financial background and want to begin learning about finance, but the sheer amount of resources that exist online make it difficult to know which articles are good for people to read. Thus we thought the best way to tackle this problem was to use a machine learning techniqu...
Though technology has certainly had an impact in "leveling the playing field" between novices and experts in stock trading, there still exist a number of market inefficiencies for the savvy trader to exploit. Figuring that stock prices in the short term tend to some extent to reflect traders' emotional reactions to new...
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## 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...
## Inspiration In a world full of so much info but limited time as we are so busy and occupied all the time, we wanted to create a tool that helps students make the most of their learning—quickly and effectively. We imagined a platform that could turn complex material into digestible, engaging content tailored for a f...
## Inspiration Research suggests that wearable aids can be used to alleviate adverse effects of impaired recognition of facial expressions. In particular, [The Austim Glass Project](http://autismglass.stanford.edu/) at Stanford is using Google Glass to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Researchers use the G...
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## 💡Inspiration ‘Despacito’, ‘Gangnam Style’, ‘Shape of you’, sound like a melody? Yup, these are a few of the most iconic music of our century (According to Gen Z). What better way to help the upcoming generation of music artists than creating an algorithm to predict the percentage of success your music can reach! W...
## Inspiration I was inspired by my own difficulty to make a budget and stick to it. ## What it does The application helps you estimate your budget. You answer a couple of basic questions about your life style and we provide you with a suggested monthly budget. You can then create your final budget and manage it. #...
## Inspiration The main focus of our project is creating opportunities for people to interact virtually and pursue their interests while remaining active. We hoped to accomplish this through a medium that people are already interested in and providing them with a tool to take that interest to the next level. From thes...
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## Inspiration Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have been extremely crucial in helping establish important political protests in nations such as Egypt during the Arab Spring, and mesh network based platforms hold importance in countries like China where national censorship prevents open communicatio...
## What Inspired Us A good customer experience leaves a lasting impression across every stage of their journey. This is exemplified in the airline and travel industry. To give credit and show appreciation to the hardworking employees of JetBlue, we chose to scrape and analyze customer feedback on review and social med...
## 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...
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## Inspiration At **Happy Muscles**, we're driven by a simple yet profound idea – *everyone deserves to experience the joy of a pain-free, active life*. The inspiration behind our app stems from the desire to empower individuals to take control of their muscle health and well-being. We believe that AI technology can b...
## Inspiration Living a healthy and balanced life style comes with many challenges. There were three primary challenges we sought to resolve with this hack. * the knowledge barrier | *“I want to work out, but I don’t exactly know what to do”* * the schedule barrier | *“I don’t know when to workout or for how long. I ...
## Inspiration • Saw a need for mental health service provision in Amazon Alexa ## What it does • Created Amazon Alexa skill in Node.js to enable Alexa to empathize with and help a user who is feeling low • Capabilities include: probing user for the cause of low mood, playing soothing music, reciting inspirational ...
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## Inspiration Most of us have probably donated to a cause before — be it $1 or $1000. Resultantly, most of us here have probably also had the same doubts: * who is my money really going to? * what is my money providing for them...if it’s providing for them at all? * how much of my money actually goes use by the indi...
## Inspiration We were inspired by how there were many instances of fraud with regards to how donations were handled. It is heartbreaking to see how mismanagement can lead to victims of disasters not receiving the help that they desperately need. ## What it does TrustTrace introduces unparalleled levels of transpare...
# [eagleEye](https://aliu139.github.io/eagleEye/index.html) Think Google Analytics... but for the real world ![Eagle Eye](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aliu139/eagleEye/master/res/ee.png "EagleEye") ## Team * [Austin Liu](https://github.com/aliu139) * Benjamin Jiang * Mahima Shah * Namit Juneja ## Al EagleEye...
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## Inspiration ## What it does The leap motion controller tracks hand gestures and movements like what an actual DJ would do (raise/lower volume, cross-fade, increase/decrease BPM, etc.) which translate into the equivalent in the VirtualDJ software. Allowing the user to mix and be a DJ without touching a mouse or key...
## Inspiration We like Pong. Pong is life. Pong is love. We like Leap. Leap is cool. Leap is awesome. ## What it does Classical game of Pong that can be controlled with the Leap Controller Motion sensor. Supports different playing mode such as: * Single player + Control with Mouse + Control with Keyboard + Contr...
## Inspiration I was inspired by the idea of having computer generated music interact with human expression, and working with Leap Motion gave me the idea for a Soundfont-powered web app that controls some aspects of MIDI playback using only the user's hand movements. ## What it does This project plays a number of M...
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## Inspiration Much to our chagrin, the current industry leading water fountain model; the Elkay EZWSR Bottle Filling Station is lacking in effective features and displays an inconsequential "bottles saved" counter that contributes little to no good towards the fountain's practical use. Additionally, the fountain inca...
## Inspiration We had a mixture of talent this time around and decided we could tackle the creative and technical challenge of making a new intuitive way to play a text adventure ## What it does Uses synonyms and natural language processing to figure out actions you can do that are the most similar to the typed sent...
## What it does ColoVR is a virtual experience allowing users to modify their environment with colors and models. It's a relaxing, low poly experience that is the first of its kind to bring an accessible 3D experience to the Google Cardboard platform. It's a great way to become a creative in 3D without dropping a ton ...
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## Inspiration As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone...
## Inspiration Everybody struggles with their personal finances. Financial inequality in the workplace is particularly prevalent among young females. On average, women make 88 cents per every dollar a male makes in Ontario. This is why it is important to encourage women to become more cautious of spending habits. Even...
## Inspiration Most of the expenses apps track personal expenses and do weekly reviews. We think there is a lack of motivation to save more since the period they track has passed. As a result, we decide to create an expense app where the user can know their spending in the current budgeting period. We observed that st...
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## Inspiration The current system for tracking and finding patient information in medical offices consists of outdated databases and finicky paperwork that is not only difficult to manage but bad for the environment. We wanted to create something that would be easy to use that could replace this system. After attendin...
## Inspiration Some of have family members in healthcare and see the overwhelming hardships they experience looking to provide healthcare to members of society. We also witness how hard it can be for the average human being to receive basic healthcare without losing a lot of money. ## What it does This product uses ...
## Inspiration Lots of applications require you to visit their website or application for initial tasks such as signing up on a waitlist to be seen. What if these initial tasks could be performed at the convenience of the user on whatever platform they want to use (text, slack, facebook messenger, twitter, webapp)? #...
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## Inspiration As a patient in the United States you do not know what costs you are facing when you receive treatment at a hospital or if your insurance plan covers the expenses. Patients are faced with unexpected bills and left with expensive copayments. In some instances patients would pay less if they cover the exp...
## Inspiration During the fall 2021 semester, the friend group made a fun contest to participate in: Finding the chonkiest squirrel on campus. Now that we are back in quarantine, stuck inside all day with no motivation to do exercise, we wondered if we could make a timer like in the app [Forest](https://www.forestapp...
## Inspiration The intricate nature of diagnosing and treating diseases, combined with the burdensome process of managing patient data, drove us to develop a solution that harnesses the power of AI. Our goal was to simplify and expedite healthcare decision-making while maintaining the highest standards of patient priv...
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## Inspiration We often found ourselves stuck at the start of the design process, not knowing where to begin or how to turn our ideas into something real. In large organisations these issues are not only inconvenient and costly, but also slow down development. That is why we created ConArt AI to make it easier. It hel...
## Inspiration A chatbot is often described as one of the most advanced and promising expressions of interaction between humans and machines. For this reason we wanted to create one in order to become affiliated with Natural Language Processing and Deep-Learning through neural networks. Due to the current pandemic, w...
## Inspiration Inspired by the learning incentives offered by Duolingo, and an idea from a real customer (Shray's 9 year old cousin), we wanted to **elevate the learning experience by integrating modern technologies**, incentivizing students to learn better and teaching them about different school subjects, AI, and NF...
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## Inspiration This year's theme of Nostalgia reminded us of our childhoods, reading stories and being so immersed in them. As a result, we created Mememto as a way for us to collectively look back on the past from the retelling of it through thrilling and exciting stories. ## What it does We created a web applicati...
## Inspiration 💡 Our inspiration for this project was to leverage new AI technologies such as text to image, text generation and natural language processing to enhance the education space. We wanted to harness the power of machine learning to inspire creativity and improve the way students learn and interact with edu...
## What it does We made 2 front ends to demonstrate the capabilities of alexaMD. Being able to extrapolate input from users to determine the likelihood of various diseases with confidence scores. ## How we built it By scraping Mayo Clinic, a comprehensive medical database, we were able to compile information associa...
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## Inspiration In today's always-on world, we are more connected than ever. The internet is an amazing way to connect to those close to us, however it is also used to spread hateful messages to others. Our inspiration was taken from a surprisingly common issue among YouTubers and other people prominent on social media...
## Inspiration We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases. We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne...
## Inspiration Social media has been shown in studies that it thrives on emotional and moral content, particularly angry in nature. In similar studies, these types of posts have shown to have effects on people's well-being, mental health, and view of the world. We wanted to let people take control of their feed and ga...
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## Check it out on GitHub! The machine learning and web app segments are split into 2 different branches. Make sure to switch to these branches to see the source code! You can view the repository [here](https://github.com/SuddenlyBananas/be-right-back/). ## Inspiration Inspired in part by the Black Mirror episode of...
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future. ## What inspired us We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work. ## Background If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te...
## Inspiration We wanted to create something fun and innovative with futuristic technologies using an old classic game. ## What it does Club Penguin VR brings you the classic experience of selecting your penguin, walking through a charming town, and dancing in the nightclub! We used computer vision so that your peng...
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## Inspiration Having experienced a language barrier firsthand, witnessing its effects in family, and reflecting on equity in services inspired our team to create a resource to help Canadian newcomers navigate their new home. Newt aims to reduce one of the most stressful aspects of the immigrant experience by promoti...
## Inspiration Inspired by the millions of students around the world who swear that if they were just in another country travelling their lives would be so much better. We assure you that the grass is not always greener on the other side. ## What it does The website collects reviews on the worst restaurants, hotels,...
## Inspiration Most of us have had to visit loved ones in the hospital before, and we know that it is often not a great experience. The process can be overwhelming between knowing where they are, which doctor is treating them, what medications they need to take, and worrying about their status overall. We decided that...
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## Inspiration Patreon! ## What it does We empower creators to directly upload their content to the blockchain and then sell their personal "creator coins" to their audiences. The more creator coins a fan owns, the more content from their creator they are able to see. The purpose of our application in the modern wor...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project was both personal experience and the presentation from Ample Labs during the opening ceremony. Last summer, Ryan was preparing to run a summer computer camp and taking registrations and payment on a website. A mother reached out to ask if we had any discounts available f...
## Inspiration With NFTs, Crypto, and Blockchain becoming more mainstream, online marketplaces like digital art platforms have never been more relevant. However, until recently, life has been very difficult for artists to portray and sell their art in art galleries. Our team saw this as an opportunity to not only intr...
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## Inspiration Finding teammates can be incredibly stressful. The Hack the North Slack had **1,710** members in the "looking for teammates" channel, and taking the step to message someone when you're a solo hacker can be terrifying. Everyone on our team had to take that leap, but some can't. That's why we created **H...
## Inspiration You're a hacker at a virtual Hackathon. You dig through hundreds of messages on Slack, hoping to find potential partners (who aren't taken already!). Or you post your bio in numerous Slack channels, wishing that your post doesn't drown among hundreds of others and that someone notices you. Hopping aroun...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from people who require immediate medical assistance when they are located in remote areas. The project aims to reinvent the way people in rural or remote settings, especially seniors who are unable to travel frequently, obtain medical assistance by remotely connecting them to medi...
## Inspiration In response to recent tragic events in Turkey, where the rescue efforts for the Earthquake have been very difficult. We decided to use Qualcomm’s hardware development kit to create an application for survivors of natural disasters like earthquakes to send out distress signals to local authorities. ## W...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by a team member’s family, his grandparents always have to take medicine but often forget about it. Not only his grandparents forget the medicine also his mom. Although, his mom is very young but in a very fast paced society nowadays people always forget to do small things like...
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## Inspiration We want to develop something fun to start our first Hackathon project. So we invented this light-weighted Diary app. ## What it does You can record your voice and your stories on it. ## How we built it We use react.js, json.js, and java to build it. React.js as a front-end tool, json.js as mock data...
## Inspiration As we all know the world has come to a halt in the last couple of years. Our motive behind this project was to help people come out of their shells and express themselves. Connecting various people around the world and making them feel that they are not the only ones fighting this battle was our main ob...
## Inspiration We wanted to watch videos together as a social activity during the pandemic but were unable as many platforms were hard to use or unstable. Therefore our team decided to create a platform that met our needs in terms of usability and functionality. ## What it does Bubbles allow people to create viewing...
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