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## Inspiration Our solution was named on remembrance of Mother Teresa ## What it does Robotic technology to assist nurses and doctors in medicine delivery, patient handling across the hospital, including ICU’s. We are planning to build an app in Low code/No code that will help the covid patients to scan themselves a...
## Inspiration In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta...
## Inspiration: The human effort of entering details from a paper form to a computer led us to brainstorm and come up with this idea which takes away the hassle of the information collection phase. ## What it does? The application accepts an image / pdf of a medical form and analyses it to find the information which...
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## Inspiration The inspiration behind BizSpyMaster 007 was to empower small businesses without dedicated IT personnel to access and harness the power of their sales data. Our goal was to create a platform that could seamlessly integrate various technologies, including MindsDB, Snowflake, Streamlit, PostgreSQL, Python,...
**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 it's really fucking cool that big LLMs (ChatGPT) are able to figure out on their own how to use various tools to accomplish tasks. for example, see Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>) this enables a new paradigm self-assembling software: m...
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Math is something it has always been hard for me to visualize. So being able to stretch and expand graphs with our hands seemed like a lot of fun! Hands-on-math is a web app which allows any user with a Leap Motion device to draw graphs in the air with their hands and view the resultant function on their computer scre...
## Inspiration We took inspiration from our experience of how education can be hard. Studies conducted by EdX show that classes that teach quantitative subjects like Mathematics and Physics tend to receive lower ratings from students in terms of engagement and educational capacity than their qualitative counterparts. ...
## Inspiration The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time. ## What it does Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ...
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## 💡Inspiration Small businesses and local entrepreneurs are an essential facet of our communities, with the COVID-19 Pandemic demonstrating how much we depend on them and vice versa. However, it can often be difficult for these businesses to know the best trajectory for their growth, with no streamlined method curre...
## Inspiration Small businesses have suffered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to help them get back on track once life comes back to normal, this app can attract new and loyal customers alike to the restaurant. ## What it does Businesses can sign up and host their restaurant online, where users can search...
## Inspiration It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ...
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## Inspiration Social-distancing is hard, but little things always add up. What if person X is standing too close to person Y in the c-mart, and then person Y ends up in the hospital for more than a month battling for their lives? Not finished, that c-mart gets shut down for contaminated merchandise. All this happen...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u...
## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
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## 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 Our project, "**Jarvis**," was born out of a deep-seated desire to empower individuals with visual impairments by providing them with a groundbreaking tool for comprehending and navigating their surroundings. Our aspiration was to bridge the accessibility gap and ensure that blind individuals can fully ...
## Inspiration As busy university students with multiple commitments on top of job hunting, we are all too familiar with the tedium and frustration associated with having to compose cover letters for the few job openings that do require them. Given that much of cover letter writing is simply summarizing one's professi...
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# SpeakEasy ## Overview SpeakEasy: AI Language Companion Visiting another country but don't want to sound like a robot? Want to learn a new language but can't get your intonation to sound like other people's? SpeakEasy can make you sound like, well, you! ## Features SpeakEasy is an AI language companion which cent...
## Inspiration We wanted a low-anxiety tool to boost our public speaking skills. With an ever-accelerating shift of communication away from face-to-face and towards pretty much just memes, it's becoming difficult for younger generations to express themselves or articulate an argument without a screen as a proxy. ## W...
*Everything in this project was completed during TreeHacks.* *By the way, we've included lots of hidden fishy puns in our writeup! Comment how many you find!* ## TL; DR * Illegal overfishing is a massive issue (**>200 billion fish**/year), disrupting global ecosystems and placing hundreds of species at risk of extinc...
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## Inspiration Nowadays people have very little time (or so it seems). In addition, bank hours are often inconvenient for those who work full-time. We address these problems by connecting financial advisors to their clients directly via a secure video chat. ## What it does Verifies user identity using facial recogni...
## Inspiration This webapp is made by three MIT girls, who often find themselves struggling with homework. We thought it'd be great to have a platform that connects people with similar academic interests. Psetting is MIT colloquial for doing homework, and as we explain to people who are interested, this webapp is like...
## Inspiration I've been previously locked out of my own car before with no spare key or way of getting in far from home. ## What it does Knock Lock is an alternative way to unlock your car if you don't have your keys or don't want to break into your own vehicle. ## How we built it A Piezo speaker listens for knoc...
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Pokemon is a childhood favourite for the 90s kids. What better way to walk down memory lane (and possibly procrasinate on whatever obligations you have) by looking up your all-time favourite pokemon? This virtual pokedex includes its pokemon type, its base statistics, its attack abilities, an accompanying picture and ...
## Inspiration Our Inspiration for this project was discord bots as we always wanted to make one that anyone have fun using. We also wanted to implement our knowledge of API calls which we learned from our courses to get a real understanding of API calls. We also loved Pokemon and decided creating a discord bot that a...
# Relive and Relearn *Step foot into a **living photo album** – a window into your memories of your time spent in Paris.* ## Inspiration Did you know that 70% of people worldwide are interested in learning a foreign language? However, the most effective learning method, immersion and practice, is often challenging f...
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# waitER One of the biggest causes of crowding and wait times in emergency departments is “boarding,” a term for holding an admitted patient in the ER for hours or even days until an inpatient bed becomes available. Long wait times can affect patient outcomes in various ways: patients may get tired of waiting and leav...
## 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)? #...
## Why Raven? *Why did the raven become a style guru? Because it always knows how to "feather" the nest!* But jokes apart, navigating the maze of beard styles can be as tricky as finding a feather in a bird's nest(pun intended). Raven simplifies the grooming journey, ensuring your facial game is always on point. ## ...
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# Project Story: Proactive, AI-Driven Cooling and Power Management ## About the Project ### Inspiration and Market Validation Our project was inspired by insights gained from the NSF ICorps course in May, where we received strong market validation for the problem we aimed to solve. To ensure we were addressing a rea...
## Inspiration **Machine learning** is a powerful tool for automating tasks that are not scalable at the human level. However, when deciding on things that can critically affect people's lives, it is important that our models do not learn biases. [Check out this article about Amazon's automated recruiting tool which l...
## 🌟 Inspiration We were inspired by a friend's story about his family’s energy company in France, where they sometimes faced negative pricing—meaning they had to pay to offload surplus electricity during periods of low demand. It seemed unfair that people generating clean energy could be penalized for overproduction...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by early text-based RPG games as well as current environmental issues plaguing our planet. ## What it does Operation Foliage is a short and simple text-based RPG game that allows the user to combat monsters and play small minigames to achieve a larger goal. ## How we built it This g...
## Inspiration Several presentations at our school about raising awareness of mental health encouraged us to create this project. ## What it does Through entertaining and encouraging messages delivered utilizing a visual short story, our project raises awareness about mental health, particularly depression. ## How ...
## Inspiration Medical hospitals often conduct “discharge interviews” with healing patients deemed healthy enough to leave the premises. The purpose of this test is to determine what accommodations patients will require post-hospital-admittance. For instance, elderly patients who live in multi-level houses might requi...
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## Inspiration My own research publication was actually founded on Heuristical Analysis, with pathfinding, aimed to aid first responders at dangerous environments. ## What it does The algorithm takes Waze JSON data, weighs down congestion paths, and finds the most efficient path to take in order to avoid traffic con...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project came from hearing about the massive logistical challenges involved in organising evacuations for events such as Hurricane Florence. We felt that we could apply our knowledge of solving optimisation problems to great effect in this area. ## What it does ResQueue is a web...
## Inspiration This project was a response to the events that occurred during Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, wildfires in California, and the events that occurred during the monsoon in India this past year. 911 call centers are extremely inefficient in providing actual aid to people due to the unreliability of...
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## Inspiration Neuro-Matter is an integrated social platform designed to combat not one, but 3 major issues facing our world today: Inequality, Neurological Disorders, and lack of information/news. We started Neuro-Matter with the aim of helping people facing the issue of Inequality at different levels of society. Th...
## Inspiration Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke...
## Inspiration After playing laser tag as kids and recently rediscovering it as adults but not having any locations near us to play, our team looked for a solution that wasn't tied down to a physical location. We wanted to be able to play laser tag anywhere, anytime! ## What it does Quick Connect Laser Tag allows fo...
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## Inspiration One of our team members' grandfathers went blind after slipping and hitting his spinal cord, going from a completely independent individual to reliant on others for everything. The lack of options was upsetting, how could a man who was so independent be so severely limited by a small accident. There is ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the impact plants have on battling climate change. We wanted something that not only identifies and gives information about our plants, but also provides an indication about what others think about the plant. ## What it does You can provide an image of a plant, either by uploading ...
## Inspiration This generation of technological innovation and human factor design focuses heavily on designing for individuals with disabilities. As such, the inspiration for our project was an application of object detection (Darknet YOLOv3) for visually impaired individuals. This user group in particular has limite...
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## 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...
## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
## Inspiration Given that students are struggling to make friends online, we came up with an idea to make this easier. Our web application combines the experience of a video conferencing app with a social media platform. ## What it does Our web app targets primarily students attending college lectures. We wanted to ...
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## Inspiration The MIT mailing list free-food is frequently contacted by members of the community offering free food. Students rush to the location of free food, only to find it's been claimed. From the firsthand accounts of other students as well as personal experience, we know that it's incredibly hard to respond fa...
## Inspiration AI is a super powerful tool for those who know how to prompt it and utilize it for guidance and education rather than just for a final answer. As AI becomes increasingly more accessible to everyone, it is clear that teaching the younger generation to use it properly is incredibly important, so that it d...
## Inspiration Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo...
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# DashLab DashLab is a way for individuals and businesses to share and collaborate within a data-driven environment through a real-time data visualization dashboard web application. # The Overview Within any corporate environment you'll find individuals working on some sort of analysis or analytics projects in gener...
## Inspiration We wanted to be able to allow people to understand the news they read in context because often times, we ourselves will read about events happening on the other side of the globe, but we have no idea where it is. So we wanted a way to visualize the news along with it's place in the world. ## What it do...
## Inspiration This project was a response to the events that occurred during Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, wildfires in California, and the events that occurred during the monsoon in India this past year. 911 call centers are extremely inefficient in providing actual aid to people due to the unreliability of...
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## Inspiration We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin...
## Inspiration 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 This weekend at Deltahacks we were challenged to hack for change and the betterment of our communities. The Innovation Factory Hamilton challenged the competitors to look to the future and help build a more connected city that is better enabled to serve it's inhabitants. We used this as inspiration for ...
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## Inspiration When we heard about using food as a means of love and connection from Otsuka x VALUENEX’s Opening Ceremony presentation, our team was instantly inspired to create something that would connect Asian American Gen Z with our cultural roots and immigrant parents. Recently, there has been a surge of instant ...
## Inspiration We love to cook for and eat with our friends and family! Sometimes though, we need to accommodate certain dietary restrictions to make sure everyone can enjoy the food. What changes need to be made? Will it be a huge change? Will it still taste good? So much research and thought goes into this, and we a...
## Inspiration Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo...
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# FaceConnect ##### Never lose a connection again! Connect with anyone, any wallet, and send transactions through an image of one's face! ## Inspiration Have you ever met someone and instantly connected with them, only to realize you forgot to exchange contact information? Or, even worse, you have someone's contact ...
## Inspiration We are tired of being forgotten and not recognized by others for our accomplishments. We built a software and platform that helps others get to know each other better and in a faster way, using technology to bring the world together. ## What it does Face Konnex identifies people and helps the user ide...
## Inspiration With the excitement of blockchain and the ever growing concerns regarding privacy, we wanted to disrupt one of the largest technology standards yet: Email. Email accounts are mostly centralized and contain highly valuable data, making one small breach, or corrupt act can serious jeopardize millions of p...
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# HeadlineHound HeadlineHound is a Typescript-based project that uses natural language processing to summarize news articles for you. With HeadlineHound, you can quickly get the key points of an article without having to read the entire thing. It's perfect for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with the news but does...
## Inspiration Why is science inaccessibility such a problem? Every year, there are over two million scientific research papers published globally. This represents a staggering amount of knowledge, innovation, and progress. Yet, around 91.5% of research articles are never accessed by the wider public. Even among those...
## What it does MusiCrowd is an interactive democratic music streaming service that allows individuals to vote on what songs they want to play next (i.e. if three people added three different songs to the queue the song at the top of the queue will be the song with the most upvotes). This system was built with the int...
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## Submission Links: YouTube: * <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eHJ7draeAY&feature=youtu.be> GitHub: * Front-End: <https://github.com/manfredxu99/nwhacks-fe> * Back-End: <https://github.com/manfredxu99/nwhacks-be> ## Inspiration Imagine living in a world where you can feel safe when going to a specific restaura...
## Inspiration Ricky (Li Qi), one of our team members, has a girlfriend who lives with her grandma. Because it was hard to keep track of when both of them had done activities, they had to put extra care when deciding to meet, because that would be a high threat to his girlfriend's grandma. He proposed to our team to c...
## Inspiration We built an AI-powered physical trainer/therapist that provides real-time feedback and companionship as you exercise. With the rise of digitization, people are spending more time indoors, leading to increasing trends of obesity and inactivity. We wanted to make it easier for people to get into health a...
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REFERENCES/DATABASE USED: 1. Differentiation Between Viral vs. Bacterial Infections: For machine-learning (SVM) to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections, we used MicroArray dataset GLP96 from: Ramilo O, Allman W, Chung W, Mejias A et al. Gene expression patterns in blood leukocytes discriminate patient...
## Inspiration I was interested in exploring the health datasets given by John Snow Labs in order to give users the ability to explore meaningful datasets. The datasets selected were Vaccination Data Immunization Kindergarten Students 2011 to 2014, Mammography Data from Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, 2014 Stat...
## Inspiration We are a team of goofy engineers and we love making people laugh. As Western students (and a stray Waterloo engineer), we believe it's important to have a good time. We wanted to make this game to give people a reason to make funny faces more often. ## What it does We use OpenCV to analyze webcam inpu...
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## Inspiration ## What it does Buddy is your personal assistant that monitors your device's screen-on time so you can better understand your phone usage statistics. These newfound insights will help you to optimize your time and understand your usage patterns. Set a maximum screen-on time goal for yourself and your p...
![UpLync](https://s18.postimg.org/5syr0jrg9/ss_2016_10_15_at_06_36_48.png) ## Inspiration Two weeks ago you attended an event and have met some wonderful people to help get through the event, each one of you exchanged contact information and hope to keep in touch with each other. Neither one of you contacted each oth...
## Inspiration We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp...
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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...
## 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...
## Inspiration Each year, over approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of produced food is wasted ever year, a startling statistic that we found to be truly unacceptable, especially for the 21st century. The impacts of such waste are wide spread, ranging from the millions of starving individuals around the world that could i...
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## Inspiration Relationships between mentees and mentors are very important for career success. People want to connect with others in a professional manner to give and receive career advice. While many professional mentoring relationships form naturally, it can be particularly difficult for people in minority groups, ...
## Inspiration 💡 The push behind EcoCart is the pressing call to weave sustainability into our everyday actions. I've envisioned a tool that makes it easy for people to opt for green choices when shopping. ## What it does 📑 EcoCart is your AI-guided Sustainable Shopping Assistant, designed to help shoppers minimiz...
## Inspiration As a team of 4 female tech enthusiasts, we have witnessed firsthand the gender disparities in the tech industry, not just from our campus experiences, but also through events like hackathons, networking, and career fairs. Women are under-represented in the tech industry: 1) Only 20% of tech roles are h...
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## Inspiration ✨ Seeing friends' lives being ruined through **unhealthy** attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the **biggest** negative effects of video games. ## What it does 🍎 YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using...
## 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 As software engineers, we constantly seek ways to optimize efficiency and productivity. While we thrive on tackling challenging problems, sometimes we need assistance or a nudge to remember that support is available. Our app assists engineers by monitoring their states and employs Machine Learning to pr...
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# HearU ![HearU](https://challengepost-s3-challengepost.netdna-ssl.com/photos/production/software_photos/001/401/027/datas/gallery.jpg) ## Inspiration Speech is one of the fundamental ways for us to communicate with each other, but many are left out of this channel of communication. Around half a billion people arou...
## 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...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for Servitium comes from a deep commitment to enhancing the lives of senior citizens by providing a centralized hub for essential services tailored to their unique needs. ## What it does Servitium serves as a comprehensive service hub specifically designed for senior citizens. It strea...
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## Inspiration Having grown up in developing countries, our team understands that there are many people who simply cannot afford to visit doctors frequently (distance, money, etc.), even when regular check-ups are required. This brings forth the problem - patients in developing countries often have the money to buy me...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Sampson is the abuse and overuse of prescription drugs. This can come in both the form of accidental and on purpose. Our team’s main focus is on assisting patients that are not able responsibly manage their own medication. Often this is a big issue with Alzheimer's or Dementia pat...
## Inspiration In school Group project is common. Students intent to divide the tasks and assign it to the team members. Sometimes it's frustrating to always ask students for their progress. That's why I decided to build a web application that allows students/ other collaborators to share their progress with each othe...
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## Personal Statement It all started when our team member (definitely not Parth), let's call him Marth, had a crush on a girl who was a big fan of guitar music. He decided to impress her by playing her favorite song on the guitar, but there was one problem - Marth had never played the guitar before. Determined to win...
## Inspiration In today's age, people have become more and more divisive on their opinions. We've found that discussion nowadays can just result in people shouting instead of trying to understand each other. ## What it does **Change my Mind** helps to alleviate this problem. Our app is designed to help you find peop...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was to look at the world of gaming in a *different* way, little did we know that we would literally be looking at it in a **different** way. We inspired to build a real time engine that would allow for the quick development of keyboard games. ## What it does Allows users to use custom ...
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## Inspiration One of our team members, Andy, ended up pushing back his flu shot as a result of the lengthy wait time and large patient count. Unsurprisingly, he later caught the flu and struggled with his health for just over a week. Although we joke about it now, the reality is many medical processes are still run 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...
## 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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## Inspiration Indecision is a problem a lot of people face at meal times, and we wanted to create a way to help people *decide* what meals to make at home while also being able to make use of the food they **already** have laying around. This helps to minimize food waste, while also saving you a trip to the grocery s...
## 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 Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o...
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## Inspiration The day to day process of navigating to websites and then adding products to the cart is time-consuming. So We thought of making a voice-enabled shopping assistant which can search and add products to the cart just with a voice command. ## What it does It can search and add products to the cart just w...
## Inspiration Let’s face it: getting your groceries is hard. As students, we’re constantly looking for food that is healthy, convenient, and cheap. With so many choices for where to shop and what to get, it’s hard to find the best way to get your groceries. Our product makes it easy. It helps you plan your grocery tr...
## Inspiration We've worked on e-commerce stores (Shopify/etc), and managing customer support calls was tedious and expensive (small businesses online typically have no number for contact), despite that ~60% of customers prefer calls for support questions and personalization. We wanted to automate the workflow to driv...
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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 One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss. Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create such a project since we are all big fans of 2D content, yet have no way of actually animating 2D movies. Hence, the idea for StoryMation was born! ## What it does Given a text prompt, our platform converts it into a fully-featured 2D animation, complete with music, lots of a...
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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 We all love learning languages, but one of the most frustrating things is seeing an object that you don't know the word for and then trying to figure out how to describe it in your target language. Being students of Japanese, it is especially frustrating to find the exact characters to describe an objec...
> > 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...
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# QThrive Web-based chatbot to facilitate journalling and self-care. Built for QHacks 2017 @ Queen's University.
## Inspiration Toronto is famous because it is tied for the second longest average commute time of any city (96 minutes, both ways). People love to complain about the TTC and many people have legitimate reasons for avoiding public transit. With our app, we hope to change this. Our aim is to change the public's perspec...
## 💡**Inspiration** The apparent rise of mental health crises in post-secondary institutions over the past few years has unveiled a small part of a long existing issue. University students have always seemed a bit sad, but in all of history, it’s never been this bad. With 1 in 5 seriously contemplating suicide in the...
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## Not All Backs are Packed: An Origin Story (Inspiration) A backpack is an extremely simple, and yet ubiquitous item. We want to take the backpack into the future without sacrificing the simplicity and functionality. ## The Got Your Back, Pack: **U N P A C K E D** (What's it made of) GPS Location services, 9000 mAH...
## Inspiration It’s Friday afternoon, and as you return from your final class of the day cutting through the trailing winds of the Bay, you suddenly remember the Saturday trek you had planned with your friends. Equipment-less and desperate you race down to a nearby sports store and fish out $$$, not realising that the...
## Inspiration No API? No problem! LLMs and AI have solidified the importance of text-based interaction -- APIcasso aims to harden this concept by simplifying the process of turning websites into structured APIs. ## What it does APIcasso has two primary functionalities: ✌️ 1. **Schema generation**: users provide a ...
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## Inspiration Our spark to tackle this project was ignited by a teammate's immersive internship at a prestigious cardiovascular research society, where they served as a dedicated data engineer. Their firsthand encounters with the intricacies of healthcare data management and the pressing need for innovative solutions...
# SmartKart A IoT shopping cart that follows you around combined with a cloud base Point of Sale and Store Management system. Provides a comprehensive solution to eliminate lineups in retail stores, engage with customers without being intrusive and a platform to implement detailed customer analytics. Featured by nwHa...
## Inspiration MISSION: Our mission is to create an intuitive and precisely controlled arm for situations that are tough or dangerous for humans to be in. VISION: This robotic arm application can be used in the medical industry, disaster relief, and toxic environments. ## What it does The arm imitates the user in a...
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## Meet Our Team :) * Lucia Langaney, first-time React Native user, first in-person hackathon, messages magician, snack dealer * Tracy Wei, first-time React Native user, first in-person hackathon, payments pro, puppy petter :) * Jenny Duan, first in-person hackathon, sign-up specialist, honorary DJ ## Inspiration Fi...
## Inspiration The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time. ## What it does Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ...
## Inspiration Food is capable of uniting all of us together, no matter which demographic we belong to or which cultures we identify with. Our team recognized that there was a problem with how challenging it can be for groups to choose a restaurant that accommodated everyone's preferences. Furthermore, food apps like ...
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## Inspiration🧠 Even with today’s cutting edge technology and leading scientific research that helps us develop, advance and improve in everyday life, those with rare genetic diseases are still left behind. Living with life threatening condition with little to no cure, considering, “less than 5% of more than 7,000 r...
Check out our project at <http://gitcured.com/> ## Inspiration * We chose the Treehacks Health challenge about creating a crowdsourced question platform for sparking conversations between patients and physicians in order to increase understanding of medical conditions. * We really wanted to build a platform that did ...
## Inspiration **250,000 people in the United States die every year from medical negligence. However, it is not negligence that leads to the most fatalities, complications, and increased hospitalizations. Rather, it is the lack of universally accessible patient medical records and software to encourage teams of doctor...
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## Inspiration Insurance Companies spend millions of dollars on carrying marketing campaigns to attract customers and sell their policies.These marketing campaigns involve giving people promotional offers, reaching out to them via mass marketing like email, flyers etc., these marketing campaigns usually last for few m...
## Inspiration When we first read Vitech's challenge for processing and visualizing their data, we were collectively inspired to explore a paradigm of programming that very few of us had any experience with, machine learning. With that in mind, the sentiment of the challenge themed around health care established relev...
## Inspiration The long and tedious process of processing insurance claims. With Machine learning capabilities from Azure and AWS, we strived to expedite this long process. ## What it does We developed an app that allows users in accidents to take pictures of their damaged car, and from there, we used Machine learni...
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## Inspiration After observing different hardware options, the dust sensor was especially outstanding in its versatility and struck us as exotic. Dust-particulates in our breaths are an ever present threat that is too often overlooked and the importance of raising awareness for this issue became apparent. But retainin...
## Inspiration snore or get pourd on yo pores Coming into grade 12, the decision of going to a hackathon at this time was super ambitious. We knew coming to this hackathon we needed to be full focus 24/7. Problem being, we both procrastinate and push things to the last minute, so in doing so we created a project to he...
## Inspiration Did you know the average person spends about $1,800 a year on clothing, often discarding items that contribute to the 92 million tons of textile waste in landfills annually? Enter EcoCloset, the app revolutionizing how we value and recycle our wardrobes. With just a simple photo, our innovative AI-power...
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## Inspiration DermaDetect was born out of a commitment to improve healthcare equity for underrepresented and economically disadvantaged communities, including seniors, other marginalized populations, and those impacted by economic inequality. Recognizing the prohibitive costs and emotional toll of traditional skin c...
# Inspiration Meet one of our teammates, Lainey! Over the past three years, she has spent over 2,000 hours volunteering with youth who attend under-resourced schools in Washington state. During the sudden onset of the pandemic, the rapid school closures ended the state’s Free and Reduced Lunch program for thousands of...
## FlyBabyFly [link](https://i.imgur.com/9uIFF1K.png) [link](https://i.imgur.com/O55PRJE.jpg) ## What it does Its a mobile app that matches people with travel destinations while providing great deals. Swipe right to like! Swipe left to see next deal. After you like a city you can learn about the city's attractions...
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Investormate is a automated financial assistant for investors, providing them financial data Investormate provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for retrieving financial data from any company on the NASDAQ. It can retrieve not only the prices, but it also calculates technical indicators such as the exponential movin...
## Inspiration Our project aims to democratize algorithmic trading and the data associated with it to capture a 150 billion dollar a month trade volume and aim it towards transparency and purpose. Our project is a culmination of the technical depth and breadth of a new step forward in technology. We really wanted to o...
## Inspiration We all know that great potential lies within the stock markets, but how many of us have the time and money to put into investments? With Minvest anyone can start investing with no minimum portfolio balance, and no prior experience with investments needed. Our platform is well integrated to your bank acc...
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# BananaExpress A self-writing journal of your life, with superpowers! We make journaling easier and more engaging than ever before by leveraging **home-grown, cutting edge, CNN + LSTM** models to do **novel text generation** to prompt our users to practice active reflection by journaling! Features: * User photo --...
## Inspiration We are part of a generation that has lost the art of handwriting. Because of the clarity and ease of typing, many people struggle with clear shorthand. Whether you're a second language learner or public education failed you, we wanted to come up with an intelligent system for efficiently improving your ...
# mindr mindr is a cross-platform emotion monitoring app, essential for every smart home. The app is tailored to provide an unintrusive and private solution to keep track of a child's well-being during all those times we can't be with them. ## How it works The emotion monitoring happens on a device—a laptop, or any ...
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Copyright 2018 The Social-Engineer Firewall (SEF) Written by Christopher Ngo, Jennifer Zou, Kyle O'Brien, and Omri Gabay. Founded Treehacks 2018, Stanford University. ## Inspiration No matter how secure your code is, the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability is the human vector. It takes very little to exploit an end...
## 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 As technological innovations continue to integrate technology into our lives, our personal property becomes more and more tied to the digital world. Our work, our passwords, our banking information, and more are all stored in our personal computers. Security is ever more imperative—especially so at a un...
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## Inspiration **Powerful semantic search for your life does not currently exist.** Google and ChatGPT have brought the world’s information to our fingertips, yet our personal search engines — Spotlight on Mac, and search on iOS or Android — are insufficient. Google Assistant and Siri tried to solve these problems b...
## Inspiration A close friend of ours was excited about her future at Stanford and beyond– she had a supportive partner, and a bright future ahead of her. But when she found out she was unexpectedly pregnant, her world turned upside down. She was shocked and scared, unsure of what to do. She knew that having a child r...
## Inspiration it's really fucking cool that big LLMs (ChatGPT) are able to figure out on their own how to use various tools to accomplish tasks. for example, see Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>) this enables a new paradigm self-assembling software: m...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by our passion for mental health awareness, journaling, and giraffes to create Giraffirmations. During this time of isolation, we found ourselves falling into negative mindsets and allowing feelings of hopelessness to creep in. This greatly impacted our mental health and we saw that jou...
## Inspiration Whether you’re thriving in life or really going through it, research shows that writing down your thoughts throughout the day has many benefits. We wanted to add a social element to this valuable habit and build a sense of community through sharing and acknowledging each other’s feelings. However, even ...
## Inspiration One of our team members was stunned by the number of colleagues who became self-described "shopaholics" during the pandemic. Understanding their wishes to return to normal spending habits, we thought of a helper extension to keep them on the right track. ## What it does Stop impulse shopping at its co...
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## Inspiration A therapeutic app that's almost as therapeutic as it was to make, "dots" is a simple web app that only takes your name and as input, and outputs some positive words and reassuring energy. ## What it does This app will quell your deepest insecurities, and empower you to carry on with your day and do yo...
## Inspiration With many people's stressful, fast-paced lives, there is not always time for reflection and understanding of our feelings. Journaling is a powerful way to help reflect but it can often be not only overwhelming to start on a blank page, but hard to figure out even what to write. We were inspired to provi...
# Inspiration There are variety of factors that contribute to *mental health* and *wellbeing*. For many students, the stresses of remote learning have taken a toll on their overall sense of peace. Our group created **Balance Pad** as a way to serve these needs. Thus, Balance Pads landing page gives users access to var...
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## Inspiration How many times have you opened your fridge door and examined its contents for something to eat/cook/stare at and ended up finding a forgotten container of food in the back of the fridge (a month past its expiry date) instead? Are you brave enough to eat it, or does it immediately go into the trash? The...
## Inspiration The both of us study in NYC and take subways almost everyday, and we notice the rampant food insecurity and poverty in an urban area. In 2017 40 million people struggled with hunger (source Feeding America) yet food waste levels remain at an all time high (“50% of all produce in the United States is thr...
## Inspiration With billions of tons of food waste occurring in Canada every year. We knew that there needs to exist a cost-effective way to reduce food waste that can empower restaurant owners to make more eco-conscious decisions while also incentivizing consumers to choose more environmentally-friendly food options....
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View the SlideDeck for this project at: [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G1M9v0Vk2-tAhulnirHIsoivKq3WK7E2tx3RZW12Zas/edit?usp=sharing) ## Inspiration / Why It is no surprise that mental health has been a prevailing issue in modern society. 16.2 million adults in the US and 300 million people in the wo...
## Inspiration We got together a team passionate about social impact, and all the ideas we had kept going back to loneliness and isolation. We have all been in high pressure environments where mental health was not prioritized and we wanted to find a supportive and unobtrusive solution. After sharing some personal sto...
## Inspiration Mental health is a serious issue but also one hard to diagnose and address. In these times of our virtual environments and uncertainties, people tend to face more difficulty and strain on their mental health. We aim to help individuals become more aware and hopefully, identify signs of mental health iss...
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## Inspiration Kimoyo is named after the kimoyo beads in Black Panther-- they're beads that allow you to start a 3D video call right in the palm of your hand. Hologram communication, or "holoportation" as we put it, is not a new idea in movies. Similar scenes occur in Star Wars and in Kingsman, for example. However, h...
# 💡 Inspiration Meeting new people is an excellent way to broaden your horizons and discover different cuisines. Dining with others is a wonderful opportunity to build connections and form new friendships. In fact, eating alone is one of the primary causes of unhappiness, second only to mental illness and financial p...
## Our Inspiration We were inspired by apps like Duolingo and Quizlet for language learning, and wanted to extend those experiences to a VR environment. The goal was to gameify the entire learning experience and make it immersive all while providing users with the resources to dig deeper into concepts. ## What it doe...
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## Inspiration We saw the sad reality that people often attending hackathons don't exercise regularly or do so while coding. We decided to come up with a solution ## What it does Lets a user log in, and watch short fitness videos of exercises they can do while attending a hackathon ## How we built it We used HTML ...
## Inspiration Amidst the hectic lives and pandemic struck world, mental health has taken a back seat. This thought gave birth to our inspiration of this web based app that would provide activities customised to a person’s mood that will help relax and rejuvenate. ## What it does We planned to create a platform that...
## Inspiration Being a student isn't easy. There are so many things that you have to be on top of, but it can't be difficult to organize your study sessions effectively. We were inspired to create Breaks Without Barriers to provide students with a mobile companion to aid them in their study sessions. ## What it does ...
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## Inspiration We set out to build a product that solves two core pain points in our daily lives: 1) figuring out what to do for every meal 😋 and 2) maintaining personal relationships 👥. As college students, we find ourselves on a daily basis asking the question, “What should I do for lunch today?” 🍔 — many times ...
## Inspiration For many college students, finding time to socialize and make new friends is hard. Everyone's schedule seems perpetually busy, and arranging a dinner chat with someone you know can be a hard and unrewarding task. At the same time, however, having dinner alone is definitely not a rare thing. We've probab...
## Inspiration Whenever friends and I want to hang out, we always ask about our schedule. Trying to find a free spot could take a long time when I am with a group of friends. I wanted to create an app that simplifies that process. ## What it does The website will ask the duration of the event and ask to fill out eac...
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## Inspiration Every day, about 37 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that's one person every 39 minutes. In 2021, 13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths — a 14% increase from 2020. These deaths were all preventable. [1] In 2019 alone, there were 15,000 injuries and 186 ...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by my love of walking. We all need more outdoor time, but people often feel like walking is pointless unless they have somewhere to go. I have fond memories of spending hours walking around just to play Pokemon Go, so I wanted to create something that would give people a reason...
# Hawkeye Hawkeye is a real time multimodal conversation and interaction agent for the Boston Dynamics’ mobile robot Spot. Leveraging OpenAI’s experimental GPT-4 Turbo and Vision AI models, Hawkeye aims to empower everyone, from seniors to healthcare professionals in forming new and unique interactions with the world ...
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## Inspiration 💡 Do your eyes ever feel strained and dry after hours and hours spent staring at screens? Has your eye doctor ever told you about the 20-20-20 rule? Good thing we’ve automated it for you along with personalized analysis of your eye activity using AdHawk’s eye tracking device. The awesome AdHawk demos ...
## Inspiration Our team focuses on real-world problems. One of our own classmates is blind, and we've witnessed firsthand the difficulties he encounters during lectures, particularly when it comes to accessing the information presented on the board. It's a powerful reminder that innovation isn't just about creating f...
## Inspiration Have you ever wanted to go tandem biking but lacked the most important thing, a partner? We realize that this is a widespread issue and hope to help tandem bikers of all kinds, including both recreational users and those who seek commuting solutions. ## What it does Our project helps you find a suitab...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for Leyline came from [The Interaction Company of California's challenge](https://interaction.co/calhacks) to design an AI agent that proactively handles emails. While Google's AI summarization features in their email app were a good start, we felt they lacked the comprehensive functiona...
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...
We went on relentlessly. Beating back against the tide (that being lack of documentation), we created something truly magnificent out of an underused device. What's next you ask? Well, we'll go on with our lives, but in the back of our minds we will always remember the times we had, and the beauty we effected in this s...
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## Virality Pro: 95% reduced content production costs, 2.5x rate of going viral, 4 high ticket clients We’re already helping companies go viral on instagram & TikTok, slash the need for large ad spend, and propel unparalleled growth at a 20x lower price. ## The problem: growing a company is **HARD and EXPENSIVE** He...
## Inspiration In today's fast-paced digital world, creating engaging social media content can be time-consuming and challenging. We developed Expresso to empower content creators, marketers, and businesses to streamline their social media workflow without compromising on quality or creativity. ## What it does Expre...
## Inspiration Last year we did a project with our university looking to optimize the implementation of renewable energy sources for residential homes. Specifically, we determined the best designs for home turbines given different environments. In this project, we decided to take this idea of optimizing the implementa...
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## Inspiration I, Jennifer Wong, went through many mental health hurdles and struggled to get the specific help that I needed. I was fortunate to find a relatable therapist that gave me an educational understanding of my mental health, which helped me understand my past and accept it. I was able to afford this access ...
## Inspiration **A lot of people have stressful things on their mind right now.** [According to a Boston University study, "depression symptom prevalence was more than 3-fold higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than before."](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146) Sometimes it’s hard to ...
## Inspiration The number of people who struggle with mental health is greater then ever, and is continuing to grow. We both personally know our closest friends who struggle with mental health issues, and we want to know what the best thing is that we can do for them. Developing a platform where people can express how...
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## Inspiration Public washrooms can be a rough time for users thanks to lots of traffic, clogged toilets, missing toilet paper and more. There’s rarely opportunities to easily provide feedback on these conditions. For management, washrooms often get cleaned too frequently or rarely at all. Let’s bring simple sensors t...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create a health-based solution (despite focusing on sustainability) due to the recent trend of healthcare digitization, spawning from the COVID-19 pandemic and progressing rapidly with increased commercial usage of AI. We did, however, want to create a meaningful solution with a larg...
## Inspiration A couple of weeks ago, 3 of us met up at a new Italian restaurant and we started going over the menu. It became very clear to us that there were a lot of options, but also a lot of them didn't match our dietary requirements. And so, we though of Easy Eats, a solution that analyzes the menu for you, to s...
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## Inspiration We've always wanted to be able to point our phone at an object and know what that object is in another language. So we built that app. ## What it does Point your phone's camera towards an object, and it will identify that object for you, using the Inception neural network. We translate the object from...
## Inspiration Since the beginning of the hackathon, all of us were interested in building something related to helping the community. Initially we began with the idea of a trash bot, but quickly realized the scope of the project would make it unrealistic. We eventually decided to work on a project that would help eas...
## Inspiration We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students ## What it does The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid. #...
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## Inspiration Feeling major self-doubt when you first start hitting the gym or injuring yourself accidentally while working out are not uncommon experiences for most people. This inspired us to create Core, a platform to empower our users to take control of their well-being by removing the financial barriers around f...
## 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...
## Inspiration: The need for an accessible workout tool that helps improve form and keep users engaged. ## What it does: Gives real-time feedback on the user's form during workouts. ## How we built it Tracking and Evaluation: This was coded in javascript and built using html. It incorporates a trained TensorFlow m...
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## Inspiration The opioid crisis is a widespread danger, affecting millions of Americans every year. In 2016 alone, 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. After researching what had been done to tackle this problem, we came upon many pill dispensers currently on the market. How...
## Inspiration The inspiration for PillHero was to create a complete solution to helping the sick and elderly to learn and stick too their schedule for taking medication. ## What it does Using the iOS app, the user enters their medication schedule, which is composed of a start date, end date, daily timings, and the ...
## Inspiration Forgetting to take a medication is a common problem in older people and is especially likely when an older patient takes several drugs simultaneously. Around 40% of Patients forget to take medicines and most of them have difficulty to differentiate between multiple medications. 1. Patients forgets to t...
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## Inspiration We take our inspiration from our everyday lives. As avid travellers, we often run into places with foreign languages and need help with translations. As avid learners, we're always eager to add more words to our bank of knowledge. As children of immigrant parents, we know how difficult it is to grasp a ...
## Inspiration **75% of adults over the age of 50** take prescription medication on a regular basis. Of these people, **over half** do not take their medication as prescribed - either taking them too early (causing toxic effects) or taking them too late (non-therapeutic). This type of medication non-adherence causes a...
## Inspiration The Arduino community provides a full eco-system of developing systems, and I saw the potential in using hardware, IOT and cloud-integration to provide a unique solution for streamlining processes for business. ## What it does The web-app provides the workflow for a one-stop place to manage hundreds o...
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## I have always been passionate about biotechnology and I decided to get immersed in assisted reproduction, I saw that when it comes to un vitro fertilization there is always a Lack of donors which make the process Harder both for clinics and for expected parents ## E-Donna seeks to be the leading sex cells provider ...
## Inspiration I have realized how difficult and important it is for a women to maintain their health and hygiene. In a similar fashion, it is as equally difficult to maintain the health of the environment. My aim is to tackle these both problems with one digital solution that will allow women to not only improve thei...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by providing a solution to the problem of users with medical constraints. There are users who have mobility limitations which causes them to have difficulty leaving their homes. PrescriptionCare allows them to order prescriptions online and have them delivered to their homes on...
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# Are You Taking It's the anti-scheduling app. 'Are You Taking' is the no-nonsense way to figure out if you have class with your friends by comparing your course schedules with ease. No more screenshots, only good vibes! ## Inspiration The fall semester is approaching... too quickly. And we don't want to have to be ...
## Inspiration Many people on our campus use an app called When2Meet to schedule meetings, but their UI is terrible, their features are limited, and overall we thought it could be done better. We brainstormed what would make When2Meet better and thought the biggest thing would be a simple new UI as well as a proper ac...
## Inspiration Us college students all can relate to having a teacher that was not engaging enough during lectures or mumbling to the point where we cannot hear them at all. Instead of finding solutions to help the students outside of the classroom, we realized that the teachers need better feedback to see how they ca...
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## Inspiration Youtube is after music bots on Discord. So we are here to fill the void. Introducing Treble, the next generation of Discord music bots! ## What it does Just like Groovy and Rhythm, Treble will play music from YouTube. Just invite the bot to your server and type -play {Youtube URL} to play music. Alter...
## Inspiration As music lovers, we found that certain songs trigger fond memories of the past. To capture that nostalgic essence, we developed a Retro AI BoomBox. This unique tool helps users rediscover tunes that transport them back in time, all while merging the charm of the olden years with modern technology. ## W...
## Inspiration ``` We had multiple inspirations for creating Discotheque. Multiple members of our team have fond memories of virtual music festivals, silent discos, and other ways of enjoying music or other audio over the internet in a more immersive experience. In addition, Sumedh is a DJ with experience performing f...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the numerous Facebook posts, Slack messages, WeChat messages, emails, and even Google Sheets that students at Stanford create in order to coordinate Ubers/Lyfts to the airport as holiday breaks approach. This was mainly for two reasons, one being the safety of sharing a ride with oth...
# cheqout A project for QHacks 2018 by [Angelo Lu](https://github.com/angelolu/), [Zhijian Wang](https://github.com/EvW1998/), [Hayden Pfeiffer](https://github.com/PfeifferH/) and [Ian Wang](https://github.com/ianw3214/). Speeding up checkouts at supermarkets by fitting existing carts with tech enabling payments. ###...
## Inspiration A common skill one needs in business management is the ability to know how the customer feels and reacts to a system of services provided by the business in question. Thus, having computers in this day and age make it an essential tool for analyzing these important sources of customer feedback. Automati...
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## 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...
## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
## Inspiration We love spending time playing role based games as well as chatting with AI, so we figured a great app idea would be to combine the two. ## What it does Creates a fun and interactive AI powered story game where you control the story and the AI continues it for as long as you want to play. If you ever d...
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## Inspiration During the pandemic music has been a relief for anxiety. It helps calm you down ## What it does It allows the user to click on a coloured tile that will then play a sound. Mix and match these sounds ## How we built it Using Android studio with dart/flutter programming ## Challenges we ran into com...
## Inspiration We all love to listen to music, and we wanted to build something that reflected what our favorite music apps lack! For example, we wanted our users to have a little background information as well as be able to easily access playlists without having to search for them each time. ## What it does We crea...
## Inspiration ``` We had multiple inspirations for creating Discotheque. Multiple members of our team have fond memories of virtual music festivals, silent discos, and other ways of enjoying music or other audio over the internet in a more immersive experience. In addition, Sumedh is a DJ with experience performing f...
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## Inspiration The inspiration behind Shifa comes from the desire to simplify medication management for the elderly and individuals who may struggle with deciphering medical labels and understanding complex prescription instructions. We recognized the need to leverage technology to improve medication adherence and enh...
## Inspiration The idea for IngredientAI came from my personal frustration with navigating complex and often misleading ingredient labels on beauty and personal care products. I realized that many consumers struggle to understand what these ingredients actually do and whether they are safe. The lack of accessible info...
## Inspiration The opioid crisis is a widespread danger, affecting millions of Americans every year. In 2016 alone, 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. After researching what had been done to tackle this problem, we came upon many pill dispensers currently on the market. How...
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## Inspiration As of today, over a third of the US population is over the age of 50 and this number is rapidly rising. One of the biggest issues facing today's elderly is an inability to understand and effectively utilize modern technology such as the Internet. As they did not grow up with these tools, many seniors fi...
## Inspiration The inspiration for Polaris came from witnessing the struggles that the elderly face in navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape. In an age where the internet is integral to everyday life, it became clear that a significant portion of the population is left behind due to interfaces that are not...
## Inspiration We aimed to build smart cities by helping garbage truck drivers receive the most efficient route in near-real-time, minimizing waste buildup in prone areas. This approach directly addresses issues of inefficiency in traditional waste collection, which often relies on static daily or weekly routes. You ...
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## Inspiration When I was a young kid in my 1st and 2nd grade I always found exams to be very boring and the questions asked on these exams were really irrelevant. When we are that young we don't care about how many objects some hypothetical character has, but what is important is that we are enjoying the process of l...
## Inspiration We loved picture books as children and making up our own stories. Now, it's easier than ever to write these stories into a book using AI! ## What it does * Helps children write their own stories * Illustrates stories for children * Collects a child's story into a picture book, sharable to their friend...
## 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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![](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--SLH6Xr3g--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/v1/logistics/demo.gif) ## Inspiration 📚In our current knowledge economy, our information is also our most important valuable commodity. 💡 Knowledge is available in almost infinite abundance 📈, delivered direc...
## Inspiration The health industry challenge got us thinking about prescriptions, how unreliable our current system is and how we lack the ability to track a patient's history. Tracking medical history is often crucial in recognizing the signs and symptoms of a medical condition. ## What it does Provides a user acce...
## Inspiration Has your browser ever looked like this? ![](https://i.imgur.com/waCM1K0.png) ... or this? ![](https://i.imgur.com/WX2dTfz.png) Ours have, *all* the time. Regardless of who you are, you'll often find yourself working in a browser on not just one task but a variety of tasks. Whether its classes, projec...
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## Inspiration Our team members have all witnessed the struggles our grandparents face due to language barriers in healthcare. They constantly need to call our parents to translate whenever a doctor or nurse visits their room. When our parents are unavailable, these challenges become even more daunting. This inspired ...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by Leon's father's first-hand experience with a lack of electronic medical records and realizing the need for more accessible patient experience. ## What it does The system stores patients' medical records. it also allows patients to fill out medical forms using their voice, ...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
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## Inspiration CVS Health Challenge ## What it does Calculate BMI and give health tips ## How we built it Android Studio ## Challenges we ran into Learning how to use Android Studio ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Learning how to use Android Studio ## What we learned How to use Android Studio ## What...
## Inspiration It's very difficult to accurately estimate how much food is going into your stomach. Many existing apps provide inaccurate calorie counts since the food items are largely generalized. ## What it does Our app allows users to take pictures of food items and it returns the amount of calories, what they m...
## Inspiration Exercise is extremely important and is most effective and healthy when it is evenly applied to all important muscles in your body. However, as students, many of us don't have enough time to finish a complete workout routine that trains every important muscle, and so we split up our exercise routines ove...
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## Foreword Before we begin, a **very big thank you** to the NVIDIA Jetson team for their generosity in making this project submission possible. ## Inspiration Nearly 100% of sight-assistance devices for the blind fall into just two categories: Voice assistants for navigation, and haptic feedback devices for directi...
## Inspiration Our project, "**Jarvis**," was born out of a deep-seated desire to empower individuals with visual impairments by providing them with a groundbreaking tool for comprehending and navigating their surroundings. Our aspiration was to bridge the accessibility gap and ensure that blind individuals can fully ...
## Inspiration As someone who grew up a visual impairement in one of my eyes, it was clear to me how difficult it can be navigate your surroundings without external help. This project is mainly inspired by assisted parking technology and Spider-Mans "spidey-sense", as both don't require direct sight in order to feed i...
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## Inspiration We were interested in using health data and we created a very impressive model. We decided to focus or project around it as a result ## What it does It uses a predictive AI model to tell a user there chances of developing diabetes ## How we built it The model was built using python tensorflow, keras...
## Inspiration UV-Vis spectrophotometry is a powerful tool within the chemical world, responsible for many diagnostic tests (including water purity assessments, ELISA tests, Bradford protein quantity assays) and tools used within the environmental and pharmaceutical industry. This technique uses a detector to measure ...
## Inspiration When we joined the hackathon, we began brainstorming about problems in our lives. After discussing some constant struggles in their lives with many friends and family, one response was ultimately shared: health. Interestingly, one of the biggest health concerns that impacts everyone in their lives comes...
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## Inspiration: The inspiration for Kisan Mitra came from the realization that Indian farmers face a number of challenges in accessing information that can help them improve their productivity and incomes. These challenges include: ``` Limited reach of extension services Lack of awareness of government schemes Diffic...
## Inspiration 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 The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi...
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We went on relentlessly. Beating back against the tide (that being lack of documentation), we created something truly magnificent out of an underused device. What's next you ask? Well, we'll go on with our lives, but in the back of our minds we will always remember the times we had, and the beauty we effected in this s...
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the importance of connecting with family and cherishing proud personal stories. We recognized that many elderly people in nursing homes feel isolated from their families, despite the wealth of memories they carry. These memories hold so much value about family history, wisdom, ...
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## Inspiration We were recently introduced to the world of Explorable Explanations (by Nicky Case!) and were immediately enthralled by its educating yet engaging nature. Inspired, we decided to present the concept of quantum mechanics to better engage the youth who have not yet encountered this phenomenon in class. #...
## 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...
## Inspiration In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue. ## What it does When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ...
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## Inspiration Imagine a world where the number of mass shootings in the U.S. per year don't align with the number of days. With the recent Thousand Oaks shooting, we wanted to make something that would accurately predict the probability that a place has a mass shooting given a zipcode and future date. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration We hear stories about crimes happening around us everyday. It's especially terrifying since we're students and we just want to enjoy our college experience. While discussing ideas to hack, we realized this problem **resonated with all of us**. We immediately realized that we need to work on this. ## Wh...
## Inspiration Toronto being one of the busiest cities in the world, is faced with tremendous amounts of traffic, whether it is pedestrians, commuters, bikers or drivers. With this comes an increased risk of crashes, and accidents, making methods of safe travel an ever-pressing issue, not only for those in Toronto, bu...
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## Inspiration Over the course of the past year, one of the most heavily impacted industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic is the service sector. Specifically, COVID-19 has transformed the financial viability of restaurant models. Moving forward, it is projected that 36,000 small restaurants will not survive the winter...
## Inspiration A couple of weeks ago, 3 of us met up at a new Italian restaurant and we started going over the menu. It became very clear to us that there were a lot of options, but also a lot of them didn't match our dietary requirements. And so, we though of Easy Eats, a solution that analyzes the menu for you, to s...
## Inspiration STEM was inspired by our group members, who all experienced failure of a personal health goal. We believed that setting similar goals with our friends and seeing their progress will indeed inspire us to work harder towards completing our goal. We also agreed that this may encourage us to start challenge...
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## Inspiration GeoGuesser is a fun game which went viral in the middle of the pandemic, but after having played for a long time, it started feeling tedious and boring. Our Discord bot tries to freshen up the stale air by providing a playlist of iconic locations in addendum to exciting trivia like movies and monuments ...
## 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 As Engineering students, we tend to spend a lot of our time outside classes in the library working away on assignments. In the days following, we might even brag about how much time we spent working, and how much we were able to get done. However, up until now, there wasn't any concrete way to show this...
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## Triangularizer Takes your simple mp4 videos and makes them hella rad!
## Inspiration Growing up, our team members struggled with gaming addictions and how games affected our mind. Solutions that could help detect, document, and provide solutions for how games affected our mental health were poorly designed and few and far between. We Created this app as an aide for our own struggles, an...
## Inspiration One of our team members, Aditya, has been in physical therapy (PT) for the last year after a wrist injury on the tennis court. He describes his experience with PT as expensive and inconvenient. Every session meant a long drive across town, followed by an hour of therapy and then the journey back home. O...
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## Inspiration The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we go about everyday errands and trips. Along with needing to plan around wait times, distance, and reviews for a location we may want to visit, we now also need to consider how many other people will be there and whether its even a safe establishment to visit. ...
## Inspiration We got lost so many times inside MIT... And no one could help us :( No Google Maps, no Apple Maps, NO ONE. Since now, we always dreamed about the idea of a more precise navigation platform working inside buildings. And here it is. But that's not all: as traffic GPS usually do, we also want to avoid the ...
## Inspiration Have you ever used a budgeting app? Do you set budgets for each month? I use a budgeting app and when I check my weekly spending, I always realize I spent a $100 too much! So, we decided to make something proactive rather than reactive that will help you immensely in your spending decisions. ## What it...
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## Inspiration With caffeine being a staple in almost every student’s lifestyle, many are unaware when it comes to the amount of caffeine in their drinks. Although a small dose of caffeine increases one’s ability to concentrate, higher doses may be detrimental to physical and mental health. This inspired us to create ...
## Inspiration 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 We needed a system to operate our Hackspace utilities shop, where we sell materials, snacks, and even the use of some restricted equipment. It needed to be instantaneous, allow for a small amount of debt in case of emergency and work using our College ID cards to keep track of who is purchasing what. #...
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## Inspiration During the day, universities around the world feature the brightest minds, most challenging ideas, and greatest opportunities to grow as both a person and an intellectual. At night, however, such campuses can feel nearly foreign or frightening as the streets lack the normal bustle of students and the li...
## Inspiration We hear stories about crimes happening around us everyday. It's especially terrifying since we're students and we just want to enjoy our college experience. While discussing ideas to hack, we realized this problem **resonated with all of us**. We immediately realized that we need to work on this. ## Wh...
## Inspiration While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de...
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## 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...
## 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...
## Inspiration With our inability to acquire an oculus rift at YHack, we were looking forward to using one in any implementation. As we are entering the job market soon, in search of summer internships, we thought about how many people, students in particular, do not have sufficient interviewing experience. Thus, our ...
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## Inspiration: We decided to try out chrome extensions. ## What it does: Creates a new tab with a screen that looks like the user is working. ## How I built it: I used java script and json to build this. ## Challenges I ran into: Having the screen loop such that each click would produce a different screen. ## Acco...
## Inspiration Luke had this idea at 2AM at night inspired from an idea he saw that had entrepreneurs able to share anything they thought was useful to their success, or something they used everyday. For example, Mark Cuban being able to share quotes he looked at everyday. We spun this to have anybody, not just rich b...
## Inspiration **Read something, do something.** We constantly encounter articles about social and political problems affecting communities all over the world – mass incarceration, the climate emergency, attacks on women's reproductive rights, and countless others. Many people are concerned or outraged by reading abou...
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## Inspiration One of the biggest challenges faced by families in war effected countries was receiving financial support from their family members abroad. High transaction fees, lack of alternatives and a lack of transparency all contributed to this problem, leaving families struggling to make ends meet. According to...
## Inspiration As international students, we often have to navigate around a lot of roadblocks when it comes to receiving money from back home for our tuition. Cross-border payments are gaining momentum with so many emerging markets. In 2021, the top five recipient countries for remittance inflows in current USD were...
# Sync Always in sync for humanity Introducing **Sync**: a robust multi-agent framework designed to streamline disaster response and resource allocation. With our intuitive web app, citizens and aid workers can easily submit *real-time reports*, which our regional reporting agent aggregates and analyzes. Sync then g...
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## What Is It The Air Synth is a virtual synthesizer that can be played without the need for a physical instrument. By simply moving your fingers in the air, the Air Synth matches your motions to the correct pitches and allows you to practice, jam, and compose wherever and whenever you want. ## How It Works The Air ...
## Inspiration Many people were left unprepared to effectively express their ideas over Zoom. As students we’ve noticed that with remote learning, instructors seem to feel very distant, teaching through either slides or drawing on a tablet, without us being able to see their face. We know body language is an important...
## Inspiration A deep and unreasonable love of xylophones ## What it does An air xylophone right in your browser! Play such classic songs as twinkle twinkle little star, ba ba rainbow sheep and the alphabet song or come up with the next club banger in free play. We also added an air guitar mode where you can play a...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the 217 million people in the world who have moderate to severe vision impairment, and 36 million people who are fully blind. In our modern society, with all its comforts, it is easy to forget that there are so many people who do not have the same luxuries as us. It is unthink...
## Inspiration In today’s day and age, there are countless datasets available containing valuable information about any given location. This includes analytics based on urban infrastructures (dangerous intersections), traffic, and many more. Using these datasets and recent data analytics techniques, a modernized appro...
## Inspiration Our inspiration stems the difficulty and lack of precision that certain online vision tests suffer from. Issues such as requiring a laptop and measuring distance by hand lead to a cumbersome process. Augmented reality and voice-recognition allow for a streamlined process that can be accessed anywhere wi...
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## Inspiration The general challenge of UottaHack 4 was to create a hack surrounding COVID-19. We got inspired by a COVID-19 restriction in the province of Quebec which requires stores to limit the number of people allowed in the store at once (depending on the store floor size). This results in many stores having to ...
## Inspiration When we thought about tackling the pandemic, it was clear to us that we'd have to **think outside the box**. The concept of a hardware device to enforce social distancing quickly came to mind, and thus we decided to create the SDE device. ## What it does We utilized an ultra-sonic sensor to detect bod...
## Inspiration Are you tired of the endless hours spent deciphering course schedules, and trying to align your classes with your friends' schedules? Well, that's a problem we University students face every term. Say goodbye to the hassle and confusion, and welcome the innovative solution: myUniCourseBuddy. ## What it...
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## 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...
## Inspiration These days, we’re all stuck at home, you know, cuz of COVID-19 and everything. If you’re anything like me, the lockdown has changed my online shopping habits quite a bit, and I find myself shopping on websites like Amazon way more than I used to. With this change to my lifestyle, I realized that e-comm...
I created a command line utility that allows the user to view a tagcloud of the terms used in the EDGAR documents for the annual reports. This utility creates a visualization that shows the most common terms, ignoring outliers with the color darkness relating directly to the relationship that term has to the argument. ...
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# What's that space by Space Invaders (Team 13) Available at <https://whatsthat.space/> *(it's designed for mobile ([How to View Mobile View in Chrome](https://www.browserstack.com/guide/view-mobile-version-of-website-on-chrome)))* Github at <https://github.com/rafeeJ/UO-Hack> Presentation at <https://docs.google.co...
## Inspiration As first-year students, we have experienced the difficulties of navigating our way around our new home. We wanted to facilitate the transition to university by helping students learn more about their university campus. ## What it does A social media app for students to share daily images of their camp...
## Inspiration## Inspiration As the summer break nears its end, we and our friends planned numerous trips around the city. Although we did have a positive experience overall, due to poor planning, we wasted a lot of time and our schedule always took unexpected turns. Thus, we wanted to tackle this issue and optimize o...
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## Inspiration 3D Printing offers quick and easy access to a physical design from a digitized mesh file. Transferring a physical model back into a digitized mesh is much less successful or accessible in a desktop platform. We sought to create our own desktop 3D scanner that could generate high fidelity, colored and te...
## Inspiration I've always been fascinated by the complexities of UX design, and this project was an opportunity to explore an interesting mode of interaction. I drew inspiration from the futuristic UIs that movies have to offer, such as Minority Report's gesture-based OS or Iron Man's heads-up display, Jarvis. ## Wh...
## Inspiration It's frustrating to always submit the same form over and over again at conferences! Using the IdentiFi wireless hardware tool, you can swipe your RFID tag onto a recruiter's table and have all your information automatically entered within their database. You can also authenticate based on parameters set...
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Worldwide, there have been over a million cases of animal cruelty over the past decade. With people stuck at home, bottling up their frustrations. Moreover, due to COVID, these numbers aren’t going down anytime soon. To tackle these issues, we built this game, which has features like: * Reminiscent of city-building si...
## Inspiration There are two types of pets wandering unsupervised in the streets - ones that are lost and ones that don't have a home to go to. Pet's Palace portable mini-shelters services these animals and connects them to necessary services while leveraging the power of IoT. ## What it does The units are placed in...
# Arctic Miner - The Crypto Club Penguin Basic blockchain game that allows the user to collect penguins, breed them as well as trade them. All penguins are stored on the ethereum blockchain. ## What it Does Our program Arctic Miner is a collection game that takes advantage of the **ERC721** token standard. This proj...
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## Inspiration With recent booms in AI development, deepfakes have been getting more and more convincing. Social media is an ideal medium for deepfakes to spread, and can be used to seed misinformation and promote scams. Our goal was to create a system that could be implemented in image/video-based social media platfo...
## Inspiration The prevalence of fake news has been on the rise. It has led to the public's inability to receive accurate information and has placed a heightened amount of distrust on the media. With it being easier than ever to propagate and spread information, the line between what is fact and fiction has become blu...
## Inspiration The upcoming election season is predicted to be drowned out by mass influx of fake news. Deepfakes are a new method to impersonate famous figures saying fictional things, and could be particularly influential in the outcome of this and future elections. With international misinformation becoming more co...
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