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## Inspiration Our team wanted improve the daily lives of our society and third world countries. We realized that a lot of fatigue is caused by dehydration, and that it is easily improved by drinking more water. However, we often forget as our lives get very busy, but what we don't forget to do is to check our phones ...
FOR THE DEMO VIDEO ->>> THIS LINK <https://youtu.be/lCZJ5zlxt2Q> ## Inspiration We hear the benefits and consequence of not drinking enough water. But forcing yourself to remember to drink takes a VERY strong determination during a hectic day of work. ## What it does We remind you to drink water, 5 seconds after th...
## 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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Problem: Have you ever been at a party and questioned who chose the music? Or debated who would be on aux? Shuffle is an app that is designed to sync multiple user’s most played songs to create a combined playlist that everyone loves. The app requires you to have a Spotify account, so when you download the Shuffle app...
## Inspiration We often encountered challenges navigating automated call systems, which left us spending excessive time on hold and feeling frustrated. These experiences made us realize how much valuable time was being wasted when we could have been focusing on more productive tasks and we were left angry and wonderin...
NwHacks 2019: Product Idea: An app that crowd-sources group recommendations for songs in a live location. Be it a restaurant, a club, etc, the app will detect your tastes in music based on your Spotify preferences and send it to the receiving end, which will control the music that is being played in the room. Target...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for Unity Style stemmed from the desire to bridge the gap between the fashion industry and individuals with disabilities. Witnessing the challenges faced by people like Alex, who live with disabilities, and realizing the lack of inclusivity in fashion, sparked the idea to create a platfo...
## 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 Peer-review is critical to modern science, engineering, and healthcare endeavors. However, the system for implementing this process has lagged behind and results in expensive costs for publishing and accessing material, long turn around times reminiscent of snail-mail, and shockingly opaque editorial pr...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by our mothers, who are both educators for children. Many people want to know what their children do at school, since at younger ages when parents ask their kids "What did you do at school", the question is rarely met with anything beyond shrugs and incoherent ideas. This responsibility...
## Inspiration Have you ever wanted to cross the street but found a horde of speeding cars in front of you? We often find ourselves in this situation when we aren't sure if a gap between the cars is large enough for us to safely cross the street. Crossy Road, a piece of novel headband technology, aims to conquer this ...
## Inspiration We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output. ## What it does XTS takes an **X** and...
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## Inspiration With the increase in Covid-19 cases, the healthcare sector has experienced a shortage of PPE supplies. Many hospitals have turned to the public for donations. However, people who are willing to donate may not know what items are needed, which hospitals need it urgently, or even how to donate. ## What i...
## SafeWatch *Elderly Patient Fall-Detection | Automated First Responder Information Relay* Considering the increasing number of **elderly patient falls**, SafeWatch automates the responsibilities of senior resident caregivers thus relieving them of substantial time commitments. SafeWatch is a **motion detection sof...
## Inspiration ``` **In 9th grade, we were each given a cup of a clear liquid. We were told to walk around the class and exchange our cup of liquid with three other people in the class.** ``` \_One person in our class had a chemical that would cause the mixed liquid to turn red once two liquids were combined. ...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by Katie's 3-month hospital stay as a child when she had a difficult-to-diagnose condition. During that time, she remembers being bored and scared -- there was nothing fun to do and no one to talk to. We also looked into the larger problem and realized that 10-15% of kids in hospitals d...
## 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 In the past few years, we have witnessed a large spike in crime in the US, making the streets less safe and putting innocent people at risk. HomeSafe is an attempt to solve this problem by providing a simple solution to help people navigate the streets without taking unnecessary risks. # What HomeSafe d...
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## Inspiration Food waste is an unfortunate and prevalent issue in society. According to the UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report, over 1 billion tons of food went to waste globally in the most recent year. In particular, households often forget about or leave food long past its shelf life, contributing ...
## 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...
## Inspiration It's more important than ever for folks to inform themselves on how to reduce waste production, and the information isn't always as easy to find as it could be. With GreenShare, a variety of information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle any product is just a click away. ## What it does Allows you to...
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# 💡 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...
## Inspiration Have you ever stared into your refrigerator or pantry and had no idea what to eat for dinner? Pantri provides a visually compelling picture of which foods you should eat based on your current nutritional needs and offers recipe suggestions through Amazon Alexa voice integration. ## What it does Pantri...
## Inspiration We, as college students, are everyday facing the problem of having to text lots of people in order to ask them to go to the dining hall together, and we are all feeling that we might annoy the other person. In the times of COVID-19, local restaurants are economically suffering as more and more people op...
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## Inspiration Many times, humans are not fully informed about the invisible irritants in their environment. For every single location on the Earth, there exists many different environmental sources that have the potential to cause harm, from minor inconveniences to life-altering reactions and medical emergencies. The...
## Inspiration The loneliness epidemic is a real thing and you don't get meaningful engagements with others, just by liking and commenting on Instagram posts, you get meaningful engagement by having real conversations with others, whether it's a text exchange, phone call, or zoom meeting. This project was inspired by ...
## Inspiration Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m...
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## What it does Blink is a communication tool for those who cannot speak or move, while being significantly more affordable and accurate than current technologies on the market. [The ALS Association](http://www.alsa.org/als-care/augmentative-communication/communication-guide.html) recommends a $10,000 communication de...
## Inspiration Retinal degeneration affects 1 in 3000 people, slowly robbing them of vision over the course of their mid-life. The need to adjust to life without vision, often after decades of relying on it for daily life, presents a unique challenge to individuals facing genetic disease or ocular injury, one which ou...
## Inspiration We wanted to come to Deltahacks not to just create some product but create a product with lasting impact. We choose to tackle an area that we felt was underserved. We decided to create a command portal for people with ALS. Command portal ? You're probably wondering what I'm saying. We'll show you as we ...
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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 Are you out in public but scared about people standing too close? Do you want to catch up on the social interactions at your cozy place but do not want to endanger your guests? Or you just want to be notified as soon as you have come in close contact to an infected individual? With this app, we hope to ...
## Inspiration There are many occasions where we see a place in a magazine, or just any image source online and we don't know where the place is. There is no description anywhere, and a possible vacation destination may very possibly just disappear into thin air. We certainly did not want to miss out. ## What it does...
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## Inspiration * Everyone and their dog have a big idea for the next hit app but most people lack the skills or resources to build them. * Having used some commercial app-building and prototyping tools in the past, we consider them inefficient as they don't reflect what the app is actually going to look like until it ...
![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 Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti...
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## TLDR Duolingo is one of our favorite apps of all time for learning. For DeerHacks, we wanted to bring the amazing learning experience from Duolingo even more interactive by bringing it to life in VR, making it more accessible by offering it for free for all, and making it more personalized by offering courses beyon...
## Inspiration Research has shown us that new hires, women and under-represented minorities in the workplace could feel intimidated or uncomfortable in team meetings. Since the start of remote work, new hires lack the in real life connections, are unable to take a pulse of the group and are fearful to speak what’s on ...
## Inspiration In the next 2-3 years, Metaverse is going to be the net big thing. Please don’t quote me on that. The applications of metaverse and VR is ubiquitous, from healthcare to defense training and much more. We want to explore its applications in education and how it can enhance the experience for the user who...
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## What it does Take a picture, get a 3D print of it! ## Challenges we ran into The 3D printers going poof on the prints. ## How we built it * AI model transforms the picture into depth data. Then post-processing was done to make it into a printable 3D model. And of course, real 3D printing. * MASV to transfer the...
## Inspiration We wanted to pioneer the use of computationally intensive image processing and machine learning algorithms for use in low resource robotic or embedded devices by leveraging cloud computing. ## What it does CloudChaser (or "Chase" for short) allows the user to input custom objects for chase to track. T...
## Inspiration Students often do not have a financial background and want to begin learning about finance, but the sheer amount of resources that exist online make it difficult to know which articles are good for people to read. Thus we thought the best way to tackle this problem was to use a machine learning techniqu...
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## Vision vs Reality We originally had a much more robust idea for this hackathon: an open vision doorbell to figure out who is at the door, without needing to go to the door. The plan was to use an Amazon Echo Dot to connect our vision solution, a Logitech c270 HD webcam, with our storage, a Firebase database. This f...
## Inspiration Have you ever want to become environmentally friendly? Trick question! Of course yes! If you are like us, however, you probably don't prefer the process of classifying your trash into separate categories, especially when you're not even sure if your classification is correct. Are food containers recycl...
# Inspiration and Product There's a certain feeling we all have when we're lost. It's a combination of apprehension and curiosity – and it usually drives us to explore and learn more about what we see. It happens to be the case that there's a [huge disconnect](http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/assets/pdfs/pu...
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## Inspiration Jessica here - I came up with the idea for BusPal out of expectation that the skill has already existed. With my Amazon Echo Dot, I was already doing everything from checking the weather to turning off and on my lights with Amazon skills and routines. The fact that she could not check when my bus to sch...
## 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 On the bus ride to another hackathon, one of our teammates was trying to get some sleep, but was having trouble because of how complex and loud the sound of people in the bus was. This led to the idea that in sufficiently noisy environment, hearing could be just as descriptive and rich as seeing. Theref...
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## Try ChartGPT out for yourself: <https://chart-gpt.vercel.app/> ## Inspiration ChartGPT was inspired by the desire to make chart creation and modification easier for everyone, regardless of their level of expertise in data analytics or design. We have experienced firsthand the tediousness of creating and modifying ...
## Inspiration We developed ApplyCanada based on the experiences of international students grappling with the financial burden of tuition and living expenses. Looking friends around us, those who have already pursued studies abroad face challenges in covering international student fees. So they prompt aspirations for ...
## Inspiration We all understand how powerful ChatGPT is right now, and we thought it would be really cool to make it available to directly call ChatGPT for help. This not only saves time, it is also more convenient. People do not need to be in front of a computer to access ChatGPT, simply call a number and that is it...
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## Inspiration Recognizing the disastrous effects of the auto industry on the environment, our team wanted to find a way to help the average consumer mitigate the effects of automobiles on global climate change. We felt that there was an untapped potential to create a tool that helps people visualize cars' eco-friendl...
## Inspiration As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r...
## Inspiration Even though technology speeds up many areas of our lives, the process of saving contact information is no faster than it was with pencil and paper. The daily exchange of emails then phone numbers then other information is tedious at best, and a waste of time at worst. With current methods of directly in...
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## Inspiration A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s...
## Inspiration While we were brainstorming for ideas, we realized that two of our teammates are international students from India also from the University of Waterloo. Their inspiration to create this project was based on what they had seen in real life. Noticing how impactful access to proper healthcare can be, and h...
## Inspiration Recently we have noticed an influx in elaborate spam calls, email, and texts. Although for a native English and technologically literate person in Canada, these phishing attempts are a mere inconvenience, to susceptible individuals falling for these attempts may result in heavy personal or financial los...
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## Inspiration On a night in January 2018, at least 7 students reported symptoms of being drugged after attending a fraternity party at Stanford [link](https://abc7news.com/2957171/). Although we are only halfway into this academic year, Stanford has already issued seven campus-wide reports about possible aggravated a...
## Problem Statement As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025. The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ...
## Inspiration As high school students, we relate to the issue of procrastination, especially when mobile devices are in close reach. Rather than deleting social media or downloading app blockers to limit distractions, our team was inspired to solve this issue at the root by rewiring students' relationship with tech. ...
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## What it does KokoRawr at its core is a Slack App that facilitates new types of interactions via chaotic cooperative gaming through text. Every user is placed on a team based on their Slack username and tries to increase their team's score by playing games such as Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Battleship, and Rock Paper S...
## Summary OrganSafe is a revolutionary web application that tackles the growing health & security problem of black marketing of donated organs. The verification of organ recipients leverages the Ethereum Blockchain to provide critical security and prevent improper allocation for such a pivotal resource. ## Inspirati...
## Introduction Imagine having a trusted companion who listens to your thoughts, helps you reflect on your day, and supports your journey to improved mental health. Introducing Reflexion Buddy, your AI-based journaling partner bringing increased enjoyment and accessibility to the journaling process! Our project is des...
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*\*\*OUR PROJECT IS NOT COMPLETE*\* ## Inspiration Due to the pandemic, lots of people order in food instead of going to restaurant to be safe. There are many popular food delivery applications available and for a lot of people, they scroll through multiple apps to search for the cheapest price for the same items. It...
## Inspiration Everybody eats and in college if you are taking difficult classes it is often challenging to hold a job. Therefore as college students we have no income during the year. Our inspiration came as we have moved off campus this year to live in apartments with full kitchens but the lack of funds to make comp...
## Inspiration The first step of our development process was conducting user interviews with University students within our social circles. When asked of some recently developed pain points, 40% of respondents stated that grocery shopping has become increasingly stressful and difficult with the ongoing COVID-19 pandem...
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## Inspiration We wanted to help hostage negotiators train for real life hostage situations by utilizing emotion and voice detecting AI to create realistic situations that the user can navigate by talking the situation down. ## What it does Users are given thirty seconds to talk down a suspect who is taking a locati...
## Inspiration We would like to invoke great communication between two people, whether that be friends, partners, or family members. With this lovely, two-persons game, the players can improve their relationships since they can build on the trust of each other by completing the maze missions together. ## What it does...
## Inspiration Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves. ## What it does The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c...
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## Inspiration Augmented reality games (e.g. Pokemon Go) inspired us to make a game that lets users interact with their environment while having fun. With our app, we intent to simplify and revolutionize scavenger hunts (and Easter egg hunt!) ## What it does ScavaHunt is a scavenger hunt game on your phone. You choo...
# Mode - nwHacks 2023 ![Intro](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--atMxOlmh--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/v1/./START.png) ## Devpost ## Instructions 1. cd into mode/frontend 2. yarn 3. yarn start 4. You are good to go! ## Inspiration To build an economically, and environmentally compete...
## Inspiration In a world where a tweet out of context can cost you your career, it is increasingly important to be in the right, but this rigidity alienates a productive and proud group of people in the world--the impulsive. Politically Correct is a solution for those who would risk a slap for a laugh and who would m...
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## Inspiration Our families tend to trade cars a lot, and all too frequently, we end up on kijiji spending hours searching for the best car deals. We wanted to build a tool that would help save us time while searching for cars. ## What it does Bang 4 Buck is a browser extension tool that allows you to search for the...
## Inspiration Our project inspiration derives from our everyday life as make-ends-mean college students. Groceries, gas prices, rents, and education item costs have been sky-rocketing and we are trying our best to survive. ## What it does \_Price Ain't Right \_ seeks to find only the best, most reasonable, and in-y...
## Inspiration One of the most exciting parts about Hackathons is the showcasing of the final product, well-earned after hours upon hours of sleep-deprived hacking. Part of the presentation work lies in the Devpost entry. I wanted to build an application that can rate the quality of a given entry to help people write ...
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## Inspiration We wanted to create a new way to interact with the thousands of amazing shops that use Shopify. ![demo](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--AOJzynCD--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/http://i.imgur.com/0G1Pdea.jpg) ## What it does Our technology can be implemented inside existin...
# Inspiration and Product There's a certain feeling we all have when we're lost. It's a combination of apprehension and curiosity – and it usually drives us to explore and learn more about what we see. It happens to be the case that there's a [huge disconnect](http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/assets/pdfs/pu...
## What it does We built a way to browse Amazon with your voice and your phone camera. You can scan the things you like around you, talk to a trained ML model about the reviews, and visualize the item in Augmented Reality. ## How we built it * Scrape Amazon Review Pages: A heavy amount of querying Amazon webpages le...
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## Inspiration With 1 in 5 people developing melanoma in their lifetimes, skin cancer is one of the most common cancers. Yet, there is no easy way to track and monitor its progression, especially in response to treatment. ## What it does Using computer vision, our app easily records and graphs the surface area of me...
# Project Inspiration Our project was inspired by the innovative work showcased at an Intel workshop, which harnessed the power of image recognition for wildfire prediction and even the identification of ancient fossils. This ingenuity sparked our desire to create a groundbreaking skin model. Our goal was to develop a...
## 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...
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# 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...
## Inspiration Productivity is hard to harness especially at hackathons with many distractions, but a trick we software developing students found to stay productive while studying was using the “Pomodoro Technique”. The laptop is our workstation and could be a source of distraction, so what better place to implement t...
## Inspiration In traditional finance, banks often swap cash flows from their assets for a fixed period of time. They do this because they want to hold onto their assets long-term, but believe their counter-party's assets will outperform their own in the short-term. We decided to port this over to DeFi, specifically U...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the retro movie Tron and a love for all things racing. ## What it does DEREZ combines the thrill of first person view car racing with the power of mixed reality. How it works is we are able to render an augmented reality race course for an RC var, visible through an Oculus Rift. Th...
## What it does ColoVR is a virtual experience allowing users to modify their environment with colors and models. It's a relaxing, low poly experience that is the first of its kind to bring an accessible 3D experience to the Google Cardboard platform. It's a great way to become a creative in 3D without dropping a ton ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our revolutionary software sprang from the desire to elevate the way we share our lives and experiences on social media. In a world increasingly connected through pictures and videos, we envisioned taking storytelling a notch higher — by introducing **Immersive Stories**. We sought t...
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## Inspiration We express emotions in our everyday lives when we communicate with our loved ones, our neighbors, our friends, our local Loblaw store customer service, our doctors or therapists. These emotions can be examined by cues such as gesture, text and facial expressions. The goal of Emotional.AI is to provide a...
## Inspiration Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke...
## Inspiration We were inspired to build Loki to illustrate the plausibility of social media platforms tracking user emotions to manipulate the content (and advertisements) that they view. ## What it does Loki presents a news feed to the user much like other popular social networking apps. However, in the background...
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## Inspiration Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book. Millions of other people also struggle...
## Inspiration Imagine a world where your best friend is standing in front of you, but you can't see them. Or you go to read a menu, but you are not able to because the restaurant does not have specialized brail menus. For millions of visually impaired people around the world, those are not hypotheticals, they are fac...
## Inspiration: Whenever people are on the car, especially for long-distance road trips, people get bored. Many people are motion sick, and constantly staring at texts on a book will cause motion sickness. As such, our app enables anyone who prefers the book to be read to them instead of reading the book themselves to...
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## Inspiration We are a group of students with different backgrounds and limited programming experiences. As exchange and transfer students, we found it challenging to build a strong connection with new people, to solve this, we want to create a platform where users can easily match up with people who share similar in...
## Clique ### Inspiration + Description Our inspiration came from us really missing those real life encounters that we make with people on a daily basis. In college, we quite literally have the potential to meet someone new everyday: at the dining hall, the gym, discussion section, anywhere. However, with remote lear...
## AI, AI, AI... The number of projects using LLMs has skyrocketed with the wave of artificial intelligence. But what if you *were* the AI, tasked with fulfilling countless orders and managing requests in real time? Welcome to chatgpME, a fast-paced, chaotic game where you step into the role of an AI who has to juggle...
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> > `2023-10-10 Update` > > We've moved all of our project information to our GitHub repo so that it's up to date. > Our project is completely open source, so please feel free to contribute if you want! > <https://github.com/soobinrho/BeeMovr> > > >
## Inspiration As victims, bystanders and perpetrators of cyberbullying, we felt it was necessary to focus our efforts this weekend on combating an issue that impacts 1 in 5 Canadian teens. As technology continues to advance, children are being exposed to vulgarities online at a much younger age than before. ## What ...
## Team Sam Blouir Pat Baptiste ## Inspiration Seeing the challenges of blind people navigating, especially in new areas and being inspired by someone who wanted to remain blind anonymously ## What it does Uses computer vision to find nearby objects in the vicinity of the wearer and sends information (X,Y coordin...
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## Inspiration Following many natural disasters, we heard news about first responders being overwhelmed and cannot work at full efficiency. The idea of triage, in our opinion, could help this situation – knowing the urgency of different emergencies, we are able to allocate resources to the maximum efficiency. We belie...
## Inspiration Keeping up with the curriculum and working on side ventures is difficult, which brings up the need for an application that can automate the note-taking process. ## What it does WeNote is a platform-independent application that uses AssemblyAI API to transcribe speech into text. WeNote allows people to...
## Problem Statement As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025. The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ...
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## Inspiration We are Penn Blinders, drawing inspiration from the iconic Netflix series, Peaky Blinders. Our team consists of four developers, Charles Jin (Senior Developer), David Fu(Junior Developer), Tony Tian (Sophomore Developer), and Stan Chen(Freshman Developer). Today, we present to you our thrilling single-pl...
## Inspiration We were inspired by dungeon-crawler video games in addition to fantasy role-play themes. We wanted to recreate the flexibility of rich analog storytelling within computer-generated games while making the game feel as natural as possible. ## Overview Our game is a top-down wave-based shooter centered a...
## Inspiration We are all software/game devs excited by new and unexplored game experiences. We originally came to PennApps thinking of building an Amazon shopping experience in VR, but eventaully pivoted to Project Em - a concept we all found mroe engaging. Our swtich was motivated by the same force that is driving u...
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## Inspiration An individual living in Canada wastes approximately 183 kilograms of solid food per year. This equates to $35 billion worth of food. A study that asked why so much food is wasted illustrated that about 57% thought that their food goes bad too quickly, while another 44% of people say the food is past the...
## Inspiration We love cooking and watching food videos. From the Great British Baking Show to Instagram reels, we are foodies in every way. However, with the 119 billion pounds of food that is wasted annually in the United States, we wanted to create a simple way to reduce waste and try out new recipes. ## What it d...
## Inspiration As college who have all recently moved into apartments for the first time, we found that we were wasting more food than we could've expected. Having to find rotten yet untouched lettuce in the depths of the fridge is not only incredibly wasteful for the environment but also harmful to our nutrition. We ...
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## Inspiration We were inspired to create this chrome extension because we often use the website Codeforces.com to practice competitive programming. However, since Codeforces has such a variety of problems to choose from (over 6000 problems!) we often struggle with finding the next problem to work on. It is difficult ...
## Inspiration As third year students looking for internships, my group was looking for a way to make our job hunts a little easier and more organized. Any computer science student knows that a large part of many interview processes at tech companies is Leetcode data structure and algorithm problems. Aside from some L...
## Inspiration There are thousands of people worldwide who suffer from conditions that make it difficult for them to both understand speech and also speak for themselves. According to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the loss of a personal form of expression (through speech) has the capability to impact...
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## Inspiration Forest fires have caused massive devastations during the last 5 years. Recently, Australia has been suffering from fires burning since October 2019. We wanted to create a hack that involves both the tool to collect the data and analyze it. ## What it does The sensors connected to the Arduino would sen...
## Inspiration I really enjoy the cyberpunk aesthetic, and realized that Arduino's challenge would be a great chance to explore some new technologies as well as have some fun dressing to play the part. ## What it does **Jetson Nano** The project uses a jetson nano to handle all of it's ML and video streaming capabil...
## Inspiration As students with busy lives, it's difficult to remember to water your plants especially when you're constantly thinking about more important matters. So as solution we thought it would be best to have an app that centralizes, monitors, and notifies users on the health of your plants. ## What it does T...
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## Inspiration In real life, we always find ourselves jam-packed with assignments and exams, and all kinds of tasks that make it easy for us to lose track of our performances. A calendar marks the deadlines but it fails to show our progress on each task. When it comes to teamwork, it can be even harder to keep everyth...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the various free food groups on facebook. We realized that on the one hand, everyone loves free food but it is not easy to find information about them; on the other hand, event organizers or individuals who order too much food often have to deal with food waste problems. We aim to bu...
**Finding a problem** Education policy and infrastructure tend to neglect students with accessibility issues. They are oftentimes left on the backburner while funding and resources go into research and strengthening the existing curriculum. Thousands of college students struggle with taking notes in class due to variou...
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## Inspiration Inspired by the challenges posed by complex and expensive tools like Cvent, we developed Eventdash: a comprehensive event platform that handles everything from start to finish. Our intuitive AI simplifies the planning process, ensuring it's both effortless and user-friendly. With Eventdash, you can easi...
## Inspiration and What it does We often go out with a lot of amazing friends for trips, restaurants, tourism, weekend expedition and what not. Every encounter has an associated messenger groupchat. We want a way to split money which is better than to discuss on the groupchat, ask people their public key/usernames and...
## Inspiration With multiple members of our team having been a part of environmental conservation initiatives and even running some of our own, an issue we have continually recognized is the difficulty in reaching out to community members that share the same vision. Outside of a school setting, it's difficult to easil...
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## Inspiration 🐳 The inception of our platform was fueled by the growing water crises and the lack of accessible, real-time data on water quality. We recognized the urgent need for a tool that could offer immediate insights and predictive analyses on water quality. We aimed to bridge the gap between complex data and ...
## Inspiration In the United States, every 11 seconds, a senior is treated in the emergency room for a fall. Every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall, directly or indirectly. Deteriorating balance is one of the direct causes of falling in seniors. This epidemic will only increase, as the senior population wil...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project is that we, like many people, enjoy taking long showers. However, this is bad for the environment and it wastes water as well. This app is a way for us and other people to monitor their water usage effectively and take steps to conserve water, especially in the face of w...
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## Inspiration There are many scary things in the world ranging from poisonous spiders to horrifying ghosts, but none of these things scare people more than the act of public speaking. Over 75% of humans suffer from a fear of public speaking but what if there was a way to tackle this problem? That's why we created Str...
## Inspiration The post-COVID era has increased the number of in-person events and need for public speaking. However, more individuals are anxious to publicly articulate their ideas, whether this be through a presentation for a class, a technical workshop, or preparing for their next interview. It is often difficult f...
## Inspiration Our innovative platform combines the power of conversational AI with the fun of interactive games, transforming traditional language learning into an engaging and playful experience. With a vibrant, child-friendly interface and exciting games like 'Fruit Slash' for vocabulary building and a math challen...
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## Inspiration Integrating and playing with the hotels API exposed by travel company called Priceline. Uses BandsInTown API for bands information ## What it does It looks for where your favorite band is performing and then helps you look for hotels for that place. It also redirects you to buy tickets for that event....
## Inspiration For first-time travelers coming into big cities or countries for business or other purposes, deciding where to stay is a difficult and sometimes stressful choice. They may check online for different hotel options, but even with 360-degree views of the rooms, they can't get the authentic experience. ## ...
## Inspiration We want to fix healthcare! 48% of physicians in the US are burned out, which is a driver for higher rates of medical error, lower patient satisfaction, higher rates of depression and suicide. Three graduate students at Stanford have been applying design thinking to the burnout epidemic. A CS grad from U...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the various free food groups on facebook. We realized that on the one hand, everyone loves free food but it is not easy to find information about them; on the other hand, event organizers or individuals who order too much food often have to deal with food waste problems. We aim to bu...
## Inspiration As a student, sometimes we need to compromise lunch with ramen cup noodles, money, and these problems faced by all the students. So, as a software engineer, I and my roommate thought of a solution to this problem and trying to develop a prototype for the application. ## What it does Demeter allows you...
## Inspiration Everyone can relate to the scene of staring at messages on your phone and wondering, "Was what I said toxic?", or "Did I seem offensive?". While we originally intended to create an app to help neurodivergent people better understand both others and themselves, we quickly realized that emotional intellig...
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## Stylete.app Project Overview ## Inspiration I've been inspired to create Stylete.app after learning about the massive amounts of fabric scraps, unsold inventory, and discarded clothing that end up in landfills. I saw an opportunity to connect waste generators with potential users, turning what was once considered ...
## Inspiration Every year there are **one in 50 Americans** who suffer from severe allergic reactions; however, studies have shown that no more than 20% of them or their surrounding know how to act in those situations. During the past summer, such a situation happened to two members of our team which inspired us to ta...
## Inspiration: Our journey began with a simple, yet profound realization: sorting waste is confusing! We were motivated by the challenge many face in distinguishing recyclables from garbage, and we saw an opportunity to leverage technology to make a real environmental impact. We aimed to simplify recycling, making it...
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## Inspiration We were looking for a hack to really address the need for quick and easy access to mental health help. ## What it does Happy Thoughts is a companion service. Whenever in need or desiring a pick-me-up a user can text the app. ## How we built it Using a React-made webclient we accepted user inputted p...
## Inspiration Everyone has dreams and aspirations. Whether it’s saving up for education, breaking into the music industry as a small artist, or travelling the world. Yet, too often, we don’t have the financial capacity for them to be a reality. We wanted to create an app that helps bridge this gap. Introducing Dream ...
## Inspiration Co-founder's ability to never get straight to the point ## What it does Has 3 different components and using speech recognition and NLP to summarize text. Also gets creative to build song lyrics or even a blog post. ## How we built it We used various libraries to put the project together. This inclu...
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## Inspiration CartMate is a web-based application that enables users to share their shopping carts across multiple webpages and with other people. The inspiration behind CartMate was to provide a simple and convenient way for users to share their shopping carts and collaborate on their purchases. ## What it does Ca...
## Inspiration With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many high risk individuals are unable to go out and purchase essential goods such as groceries or healthcare products. Our app aims to be a simple, easy-to-use solution to facilitate group buys of such goods amongst small communities and neighbourhoods. Group pu...
## Tweet-Mood We're Tweet-Mood, a web based, geolocated sentiment analysis application using live tweets posted in the US. Our goal was to create a more powerful tool for understanding how various socioeconomic and other demographic factors play into the overall sentiments expressed in a community. Our application is ...
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## Inspiration The EPA estimates that although 75% of American waste is recyclable, only 30% gets recycled. Our team was inspired to create RecyclAIble by the simple fact that although most people are not trying to hurt the environment, many unknowingly throw away recyclable items in the trash. Additionally, the sheer...
# RecycPal ![](https://i.imgur.com/2UEDT6v.png) ## Summary RecycPal is your pal for creating a more sustainable world! RecycPal uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you identify what can be or cannot be recycled. This project was developed during DeltaHacks 8. Please check out our DevPost here:...
## Inspiration This system was designed to make waste collection more efficient, organized and user-friendly. Keeping the end users in mind we have created a system that detects what type of waste has been inserted in the bin and categorizes it as a recyclable or garbage. The system then opens the appropriate shoot (...
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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 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 Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves. ## What it does The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c...
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## Inspiration With the coming of the IoT age, we wanted to explore the addition of new experiences in our interactions with physical objects and facilitate crossovers from the digital to the physical world. Since paper is a ubiquitous tool in our day to day life, we decided to try to push the boundaries of how we int...
## Inspiration As we have seen through our university careers, there are students who suffer from disabilities who can benefit greatly from accessing high-quality lecture notes. Many professors struggle to find note-takers for their courses which leaves these students with a great disadvantage. Our mission is to ensur...
## 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...
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## Inspiration There has never been a more relevant time in political history for technology to shape our discourse. Clara AI can help you understand what you're reading, giving you political classification and sentiment analysis so you understand the bias in your news. ## What it does Clara searches for news on an ...
## Inspiration Star Wars inspired us. ## What it does The BB-8 droid navigates its environment based on its user's gaze. The user simply has to change their gaze and the BB-8 will follow their eye-gaze. ## How we built it We built it with an RC car kit placed into a styrofoam sphere. The RC car was created with an...
## Inspiration Reading the news helps people expand their knowledge and broaden their horizons. However, it can be time-consuming and troublesome to find quality news articles and read lengthy, boring chunks of text. Our goal is to make news **accessible** to everyone. We provide **concise**, **digestible** news **sum...
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## Inspiration The three of us believe that our worldview comes from what we read. Online news articles serve to be that engine, and for something so crucial as learning about current events, an all-encompassing worldview is not so accessible. Those new to politics and just entering the discourse may perceive an extre...
## Inspiration False news. False news. False news everywhere. Before reading your news article in depth, let us help you give you a brief overview of what you'll be ingesting. ## What it does Our Google Chrome extension will analyze the news article you're about to read and give you a heads up on some on the article...
## Inspiration Our team met during the 2022 SHAD summer program at the *University of Calgary*. During our time at SHAD, we learned that finding a problem to address is just as, if not more, important than creating a solution. When we came to Hack the North, we all knew that we wanted to tackle a big issue that has a ...
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## Inspiration In the maze of social interactions, we've all encountered the awkward moment of not remembering the name of someone we've previously met. Face-Book is our solution to the universal social dilemma of social forgetfulness. ## What it does Face-Book is an iPhone app that--discreetly--records and analyzes...
## Inspiration As our world becomes more digitalized and interactions become a more permanent, our team noticed a rise in online anxiety stemming from an innate fear of being judged or making a mistake. In Elizabeth Armstrong's book *Paying for the Party* , Armstrong mentions the negative impacts of being unique at a ...
## Inspiration 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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## Inspiration Selina was desperately trying to get to PennApps on Friday after she disembarked her Greyhound. Alas, she had forgotten that only Bolt Bus and Megabus end their journeys directly next to the University of Pennsylvania, so she was a full 45 minute walk away from Penn Engineering. Full of hope, she approa...
## Inspiration Old school bosses don't want want to see you slacking off and always expect you to be all movie hacker in the terminal 24/7. As professional slackers, we also need our fair share of coffee and snacks. We initially wanted to create a terminal app to order Starbucks and deliver it to the E7 front desk. Th...
## Inspiration Jessica here - I came up with the idea for BusPal out of expectation that the skill has already existed. With my Amazon Echo Dot, I was already doing everything from checking the weather to turning off and on my lights with Amazon skills and routines. The fact that she could not check when my bus to sch...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration was the inability of some dementia patients to even recognize their own family members. Izzie's grandpa had dementia, and he would at time mistake his wife for his sister, or forget his grandchildren. With that in mind, we wanted to create a device that would remind a dementia patient of...
## Inspiration Alzheimer’s impacts millions worldwide, gradually eroding patients’ ability to recognize loved ones, creating emotional strain for both patients and families. Our project aims to bridge this emotional gap by simulating personal conversations that evoke familiarity, comfort, and connection. These calls s...
# Summary Echo is an intelligent, environment-aware smart cane that acts as assistive tech for the visually or mentally impaired. --- ## Overview Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. In fact, 1 in 10 people of age 65 and older has Alzheimer's or dementia. Often, those afflicted will have trouble re...
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## Inspiration Reducing North American food waste. ## What it does Food for All offers a platform granting the ability for food pantries and restaurants to connect. With a very intuitive interface, pantries and restaurants are able to register their organizations to request or offer food. Restaurants can estimate th...
## Inspiration : We wanted to solve a practical problem we'd both faced in our day-to-day lives. Food wastage is a big issue in Canada, with over 2.2 million tonnes of edible food being wasted each year. We wanted to make something that not only makes our lives easier, but make a difference to the environment as well....
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the desire to address the issue of food waste and to help those in need. We decided to create an online platform that connects people with surplus food to those who need to address the problem of food insecurity and food waste, which is a significant environmental and economic ...
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## Inspiration 3-D Printing. It has been around for decades, yet the printing process is often too complex to navigate, labour intensive and time consuming. Although the technology exists, it is only used by those who are trained in the field because of the technical skills required to operate the machine. We want to ...
## Inspiration How did you feel when you first sat behind the driving wheel? Scared? Excited? All of us on the team felt a similar way: nervous. Nervous that we'll drive too slow and have cars honk at us from behind. Or nervous that we'll crash into something or someone. We felt that this was something that most peopl...
## Inspiration We get the inspiration from the idea provided by Stanley Black&Decker, which is to show users how would the product like in real place and in real size using AR technic. We choose to solve this problem because we also encounter same problem in our daily life. When we are browsing website for buying furn...
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## Inspiration Fractals are cool, there are tons of videos on YouTube, zooming into the Mandelbrot, showing the patterns that emerge as you zoom in. While there are many examples of these, they all use the exact same equation that defines the Mandelbrot set, with fixed values for everything. However, if there's anythi...
## Inspiration The internet and current text based communication simply does not promote neurodiversity. People, especially children, with developmental disabilities such as autism have a great deal of difficulty recognizing the emotions of others whether it be verbal or written. The internet gave us the ability to co...
## Inspiration The name of our web app, Braeburn, is named after a lightly colored red apple that was once used with green Granny Smith apples to test for colorblindness. We were inspired to create a tool to benefit individuals who are colorblind by helping to make public images more accessible. We realized that thing...
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## Inspiration After observing the news about the use of police force for so long, we considered to ourselves how to solve that. We realized that in some ways, the problem was made worse by a lack of trust in law enforcement. We then realized that we could use blockchain to create a better system for accountability in...
## Inspiration To introduce the most impartial and ensured form of voting submission in response to controversial democratic electoral polling following the 2018 US midterm elections. This event involved several encircling clauses of doubt and questioned authenticity of results by citizen voters. This propelled the id...
## What it does Using our app, users can scan the item, and use the provided pass code to make sure that item they have is legit. Using just the QR scanner on our app, it is very easy to verify the goods you bought, as well as the location the drugs were manufactured. ## How we built it We started off wanting to ens...
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## 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...
## Inspiration Disasters can strike quickly and without notice. Most people are unprepared for situations such as earthquakes which occur with alarming frequency along the Pacific Rim. When wifi and cell service are unavailable, medical aid, food, water, and shelter struggle to be shared as the community can only comm...
# Inspiration During the information session presented by the Wharton Risk Center, we were inspired by the story of a little girl who recognized the early signs of a tsunami but found difficulty in spreading awareness. After finally contacting the right person, they managed to get everyone off the beach and it became ...
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## Inspiration The idea for VenTalk originated from an everyday stressor that everyone on our team could relate to; commuting alone to and from class during the school year. After a stressful work or school day, we want to let out all our feelings and thoughts, but do not want to alarm or disturb our loved ones. Relea...
![alt tag](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zackharley/QHacks/develop/public/pictures/logoBlack.png) # What is gitStarted? GitStarted is a developer tool to help get projects off the ground in no time. When time is of the essence, devs hate losing time to setting up repositories. GitStarted streamlines the repo crea...
## Inspiration Mental health has become one of the most prominent issues today that has impacted a high percentage of people. This has taken a negative toll on their lives and have made people feel like they do not belong anywhere. Due to this, our group decided to assist these people by creating a phone application t...
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## Inspiration With the increase in Covid-19 cases, the healthcare sector has experienced a shortage of PPE supplies. Many hospitals have turned to the public for donations. However, people who are willing to donate may not know what items are needed, which hospitals need it urgently, or even how to donate. ## What i...
Team channel #43 Team discord users - Sarim Zia #0673, Elly #2476, (ASK), rusticolus #4817, Names - Vamiq, Elly, Sarim, Shahbaaz ## Inspiration When brainstorming an idea, we concentrated on problems that affected a large population and that mattered to us. Topics such as homelessness, food waste and a clean environm...
## Inspiration There was a lot of free food at HackMIT that we did not know about - that is usually the case all the time at MIT! We think that it is way more convenient to be alerted pysically when free food is available than to keep refreshing Outlook. ## What it does It lights up the segment seven display to show...
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## Inspiration Our team loves games. Before even coming to HW, we wanted to make something we knew we could enjoy and share with others. After a quick brainstorming session at the event itself, we decided to get out of our comfort zone and try experimenting with technologies we've never used before. The result of this...
# YouDub: Expanding YouTube Accessibility Through Customizable Voice-Overs Our inspiration for developing YouDub came from a unique blend of experiences within our diverse team. With three members having Hindi as their mother tongue and one member being an English speaker, a casual conversation revealed an interesting...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a solution that would ease mental health issues among kids, young adults, and adults by allowing them to play with a Tamagotchi/virtual pet that grows and plays with them. ## What it does We created a web application that allows users to customize and play with their own pet by log...
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## Inspiration Although Canada has free health care, it can be very difficult to meet with a doctor regularly and moreover many people find it difficult to start and adhere to a Nutrition Plan. By being held accountable to their Doctor, we hope to increase the chances of the patient sticking to the Doctor recommended ...
## Inspiration Based on CDC’s second nutrition report, nutritional deficiency affects less than 10 percent of the American population. However, in some ethic or age groups, more than one third of the population group suffer nutritional deficiency. The lack of certain nutrients could lower one’s quality of life, and ev...
## 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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Learning a new language doesn't happen inside an app or in front of a screen. It happens in real life. So we created Dojo, an immersive and interactive language learning platform, powered by artificial intelligence, that supports up to 10 different languages. Our lessons are practical. They're personalized to your ev...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Mentis emerged from a realization of the vast potential that a personalized learning AI platform holds in transforming education. We envisioned an AI-driven mentor capable of adapting to individual learning styles and needs, making education more accessible, engaging, and effectiv...
## 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 Our team grew up in the Bay Area and Chicago, watching our beautiful cities surrounded by natural landscapes continually polluted and littered. It's heartbreaking to see the parks and streets you love trashed by people that don't seem to care. But we've all been there, you need to throw something out bu...
## Inspiration My teammate and I grew up in Bolivia, where recycling has not taken much of a hold in society unfortunately. As such, once we moved to the US and had to deal with properly throwing away the trash to the corresponding bin, we were a bit lost sometimes on how to determine which bin to use. What better way...
## Inspiration Bill - "Blindness is a major problem today and we hope to have a solution that takes a step in solving this" George - "I like engineering" We hope our tool gives nonzero contribution to society. ## What it does Generates a description of a scene and reads the description for visually impaired people...
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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 Many hackers cast their vision forward, looking for futuristic solutions for problems in the present. Instead, we cast our eyes backwards in time, looking to find our change in restoration and recreation. We were drawn to the ancient Athenian Agora -- a marketplace; not one where merchants sold goods, b...
## Inspiration This idea was inspired by the online game 'city guesser' [link](https://virtualvacation.us/multiplayer), in which a player, or multiple players watch a video walking through a specific place anywhere in the world and must guess the video's location on a world map. We wanted to do something similar, in t...
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## Inspiration Retinal degeneration affects 1 in 3000 people, slowly robbing them of vision over the course of their mid-life. The need to adjust to life without vision, often after decades of relying on it for daily life, presents a unique challenge to individuals facing genetic disease or ocular injury, one which ou...
## Inspiration Have you ever met a blind engineer? Odds are you haven't, because it is much harder for blind people to acquire information compared to those with sight. Some of the current best solutions are text-to-braille devices, which can scan in letters and translate them to tactile braille dots. However, these d...
## Inspiration When I was a kid, I was particularly curious. I would ask my parents a lot of questions, and they'd meet me with enough of an answer for me to leave them alone. This week, I desperately asked my dad if he had any ideas for what to hack, and his first answer, with no hesitation, was an AI toy for childre...
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## Inspiration In an unprecedented time of fear, isolation, and *can everyone see my screen?*, no ones life has been the same since COVID. We saw people come together to protect others, but also those who refused to wear cloth over their noses. We’ve come up with cutting edge, wearable technology to protect ourselves ...
## Inspiration In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine...
## DEMO WITHOUT PRESENTATION ## **this app would typically be running in a public space** [demo without presentation (judges please watch the demo with the presentation)](https://youtu.be/qNmGr1GJNrE) ## Inspiration We spent **hours** thinking about what to create for our hackathon submission. Every idea that we ha...
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## Inspiration Natural disasters do more than just destroy property—they disrupt lives, tear apart communities, and hinder our progress toward a sustainable future. One of our team members from Rice University experienced this firsthand during a recent hurricane in Houston. Trees were uprooted, infrastructure was dest...
## Inspiration We took inspiration from the multitude of apps that help to connect those who are missing to those who are searching for their loved ones and others affected by natural disaster, especially flooding. We wanted to design a product that not only helped to locate those individuals, but also to rescue those...
## Inspiration One day Saaz was sitting at home thinking about his fitness goals and his diet. Looking in his fridge, he realized that, on days when his fridge was only filled with leftovers and leftover ingredients, it was very difficult for him to figure out what he could make that followed his nutrition goals. This...
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## Inspiration You see a **TON** of digital billboards at NYC Time Square. The problem is that a lot of these ads are **irrelevant** to many people. Toyota ads here, Dunkin' Donuts ads there; **it doesn't really make sense**. ## What it does I built an interactive billboard that does more refined and targeted advert...
## Inspiration When struggling to learn HTML, and basic web development. The tools provided by browsers like google chrome were hidden making hard to learn of its existence. As an avid gamer, we thought that it would be a great idea to create a game involving the inspect element tool provided by browsers so that more ...
## Inspiration It all started a couple days ago when my brother told me he'd need over an hour to pick up a few items from a grocery store because of the weekend checkout line. This led to us reaching out to other friends of ours and asking them about the biggest pitfalls of existing shopping systems. We got a whole v...
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## Inspiration Natural disasters do more than just destroy property—they disrupt lives, tear apart communities, and hinder our progress toward a sustainable future. One of our team members from Rice University experienced this firsthand during a recent hurricane in Houston. Trees were uprooted, infrastructure was dest...
## Inspiration In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
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## Inspiration Exercising is very important to living a healthy and happy life. Motivation and consistency are key factors that prevent people from reaching their fitness goals. There are many apps to try to help motivate aspiring athletes, but they often just pit people against each other and focus on raw performance...
## Inspiration TerraFit, a clever play on the word "terrific," is born from a passion to inspire self-confidence among gym-goers. Recognizing the common struggles of feeling unsure or lacking guidance during workouts, the TerraFit team embarked on a mission to provide users with more than just instructions. While exis...
## Inspiration Many people want to stay in shape, so they really want to go workout to achieve their physique. However, most don't due to the hassle of creating unique workout plans because it could be time consuming and general to a specific body type, resulting in poor outcomes. What if you can build a plan that foc...
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## Inspiration More money, more problems. Lacking an easy, accessible, and secure method of transferring money? Even more problems. An interesting solution to this has been the rise of WeChat Pay, allowing for merchants to use QR codes and social media to make digital payments. But where does this leave people witho...
## Inspiration Ideas for interactions from: * <http://paperprograms.org/> * <http://dynamicland.org/> but I wanted to go from the existing computer down, rather from the bottom up, and make something that was a twist on the existing desktop: Web browser, Terminal, chat apps, keyboard, windows. ## What it does Maps ...
## Inspiration 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 Planning vacations can be hard. Traveling is a very fun experience but often comes with a lot of stress of curating the perfect itinerary with all the best sights to see, foods to eat, and shows to watch. You don't want to miss anything special, but you also want to make sure the trip is still up your a...
# Travel Itinerary Generator ## Inspiration Traveling is an experience that many cherish, but planning for it can often be overwhelming. With countless events, places to visit, and activities, it's easy to miss out on experiences that could have made the trip even more memorable. This realization inspired us to creat...
## Inspiration It is a truth universally known that eating food is much better when you’re eating with other people. If only it were that easy deciding where to eat, though — and unfortunately, it gets harder the larger your party is... ## Problem statement There is a lot of difficulty in deciding where to eat and w...
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## Inspiration A project online detailing the "future cities index," a statistic that aims to calculate the viability of building a future city. After watching the Future Cities presentation, we were interested to see *where* Future Cities would be built, if a project like the one we saw was funded in the US. This pro...
## Inspiration Remember the thrill of watching mom haggle like a pro at the market? Those nostalgic days might seem long gone, but here's the twist: we can help you carry out the generational legacy. Introducing our game-changing app – it's not just a translator, it’s your haggling sidekick. This app does more than br...
## Inspiration Hurricane Milton, the most devastating disaster in over 30 years, left more than **3 million people** without power and overwhelmed emergency services scrambling to respond. **While drone technology now floods us with vast amounts of data, the real challenge lies in making sense of it in rapidly evolvin...
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•⁠ ⁠Inspiration The inspiration for digifoot.ai stemmed from the growing concern about digital footprints and online presence in today's world. With the increasing use of social media, individuals often overlook the implications of their online activities. We aimed to create a tool that not only helps users understand ...
## Inspiration The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes have created a pressing need for reliable, real-time information. Families, NGOs, emergency first responders, and government agencies often struggle to access trustworthy updates quickly, leading to dela...
## Inspiration Social media has been shown in studies that it thrives on emotional and moral content, particularly angry in nature. In similar studies, these types of posts have shown to have effects on people's well-being, mental health, and view of the world. We wanted to let people take control of their feed and ga...
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## Inspiration Aravind doesn't speak Chinese. When Nick and Jon speak in Chinese Aravind is sad. We want to solve this problem for all the Aravinds in the world -- not just for Chinese though, for any language! ## What it does TranslatAR allows you to see English (or any other language of your choice) subtitles when...
## 💫 Inspiration Inspired by our grandparents, who may not always be able to accomplish certain tasks, we wanted to create a platform that would allow them to find help locally . We also recognize that many younger members of the community might be more knowledgeable or capable of helping out. These younger members m...
## Inspiration All three teammates had independently converged on an idea of glasses with subtitles for the world around you. After we realized the impracticality of the idea (how could you read subtitles an inch from your eye without technology that we didn't have access to?) we flipped it around: instead of subtitle...
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## Inspiration SustainaPal is a project that was born out of a shared concern for the environment and a strong desire to make a difference. We were inspired by the urgent need to combat climate change and promote sustainable living. Seeing the increasing impact of human activities on the planet's health, we felt compe...
## Inspiration Around 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for aquatic life, swimming or fishing.Although children make up 10% of the world’s population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. Environmental factors contribute to more than 3 million children under age five dying every year. Pol...
## 🌱 Inspiration With the ongoing climate crisis, we recognized a major gap in the incentives for individuals to make greener choices in their day-to-day lives. People want to contribute to the solution, but without tangible rewards, it can be hard to motivate long-term change. That's where we come in! We wanted to c...
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## Inspiration We're tired of seeing invasive advertisements and blatant commercialization all around us. With new AR technology, there may be better ways to help mask and put these advertisements out of sight, or in a new light. ## What it does By utilizing Vueforia technologies and APIs, we can use image tracking ...
## Inspiration As a team, we've been increasingly concerned about the *data privacy* of users on the internet in 2022. There’s no doubt that the era of vast media consumption has resulted in a monopoly of large tech firms who hold a strong grasp over each and every single user input. When every action you make results...
## 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...
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## Inspiration My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin...
## Inspiration The inspiration for Green Cart is to support local farmers by connecting them directly to consumers for fresh and nutritious produce. The goal is to promote community support for farmers and encourage people to eat fresh and locally sourced food. ## What it does GreenCart is a webapp that connects loc...
## Inspiration A member of our core team is very close with his cousin who is severely disabled. Thus, we approached YHack with a social conscious Hack that would assist those who don't have the same opportunities to attend Hackathons as we do. Although our peers who are visually impaired use current methods and techn...
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## Inspiration Vision—our most dominant sense—plays a critical role in every faucet and stage in our lives. Over 40 million people worldwide (and increasing) struggle with blindness and 20% of those over 85 experience permanent vision loss. In a world catered to the visually-abled, developing assistive technologies to...
## 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 The inspiration for our project, CLIF ( Communicative Learning Intelligent Friend), stemmed from a deep, personal connection with a deaf friend who navigated daily communication challenges with resilience and determination. This individual, along with some 20% of the global population who struggle with ...
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💡 ## Inspiration 49 percent of women reported feeling unsafe walking alone after nightfall according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In light of recent sexual assault and harassment incidents in the London, Ontario and Western community, women now feel unsafe travelling alone more than ever. Light My W...
## Inspiration How many times have you went on a website, looked at the length of the content and decided that it was not worth your time to read the entire page? The inspiration for my project comes from this exact problem. Imagine how much easier it would be if website owners could automatically generate a summary o...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a project that would challenge both our front end and back end skills. ## What it does It finds the safest path between two points in London. ## How I built it It uses the Google Maps API, data from the city of London, and statistical analysis to make recommendations. ## Challen...
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## Inspiration Booking appointments through the phone can be a chore to do sometimes. Verbal communication is less clear, concise and easily mistranslated, and it can be a hassle to wait for reception to be available, callbacks, and picking the best available time. In this day and age, we live in a world where talking...
## Inspiration --- I recently read Ben Sheridan's paper on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence where he argues that Ai is best used as a tool that accelerates humans rather than trying to *replace* them. We wanted to design a "super-tool" that meaningfully augmented a user's workday. We felt that current calendar ...
## Inspiration Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i...
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## Away From Keyboard ## Inspiration We wanted to create something that anyone can use AFK for chrome. Whether it be for accessibility reasons -- such as for those with disabilities that can't use the keyboard -- or for daily use when you're cooking, our aim was to make scrolling and Chrome browsing easier. ## What ...
## 💡Inspiration In a world of fast media, many youth struggle with short attention spans and find it difficult to stay focused. We want to help overcome this phenomena with the help of a baby leaf sprout and automated browser proctoring! We hope this tool will help users ace their tests and achieve their dreams! ## ...
## Inspiration In Canada every year **$160 million** is lost due to scams and phishing attacks in the financial industry. Scammers target an older population that isn't tech savvy and immigrants who struggle with a language barrier. **I wanted to do my part and use technology to give an advantage back to Canadians and...
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## Inspiration Many visually impaired individuals face challenges due to their dependence on others. They lack the ability to do things on their own and often miss out on the simple pleasures of life. We wanted to create an app that helps the visually impaired fully experience life -- on their own terms. ## What it d...
## Inspiration To improve the quality of life and safety of individuals who are vision-impaired or blind. A new solution that provides further independence to everyday life. ## What it does A vibrational language that collects real time visual information (i.e. cars, people, traffic lights etc.) about a user’s surro...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Ever wish you could hear your baby cry where you are in the world? Probably not, but it's great to know anyways! Did you know that babies often cry when at least one of their needs is not met? How could possibly know about baby's needs without being there watching the baby sleep? ## What it does Our t...
## Inspiration We created this app to address a problem that our creators were facing: waking up in the morning. As students, the stakes of oversleeping can be very high. Missing a lecture or an exam can set you back days or greatly detriment your grade. It's too easy to sleep past your alarm. Even if you set multiple...
## Inspiration We saw multiple different problems with pre-existing commercial smart home monitoring devices, they required separate devices and also rely on your existing Wi-Fi network to function. ## What it does We-cu (mind the Carleton University pun) monitors your home using a multitude of different sensors ran...
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# Things2Do Minimize time spent planning and maximize having fun with Things2Do! ## Inspiration The idea for Things2Do came from the difficulties that we experienced when planning events with friends. Planning events often involve venue selection which can be a time-consuming, tedious process. Our search for solutio...
## Inspiration Travelling can be a pain. You have to look up attractions ahead of time and spend tons of time planning out what to do. Shouldn't travel be fun, seamless and stress-free? ## What it does SightSee takes care of the annoying part of travel. You start by entering the city that you're visiting, your hotel...
# **THIS IS HOW WE CONNECT THE DOTS** **youngdumbandreallbroke.tech** ## Inspiration We love to travel. But having ourselves manage all our traveling needs on different services is a lot of work. Traveling is still considered a luxury for many. We believe that travel costs can be estimated down to tens of dollars fo...
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## Why Type 2 diabetes can be incredibly tough, especially when it leads to complications. I've seen it firsthand with my uncle, who suffers from peripheral neuropathy. Watching him struggle with insensitivity in his feet, having to go to the doctor regularly for new insoles just to manage the pain and prevent further...
## Inspiration As a team, we've all witnessed the devastation of muscular-degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, on the family members of the afflicted. Because we didn't have enough money or resources or time to research and develop a new drug or other treatment for the disease, we wanted to make the medicine al...
## Inspiration Stroke costs the United States an estimated $33 billion each year, reducing mobility in more than half of stroke survivors age 65 and over, or approximately 225,000 people a year. Stroke motor rehabilitation is a challenging process, both for patients and for their care providers. On the patient-side, o...
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## Inspiration No one likes being stranded at late hours in an unknown place with unreliable transit as the only safe, affordable option to get home. Between paying for an expensive taxi ride yourself, or sharing a taxi with random street goers, the current options aren't looking great. WeGo aims to streamline taxi ri...
## Inspiration The vicarious experiences of friends, and some of our own, immediately made clear the potential benefit to public safety the City of London’s dataset provides. We felt inspired to use our skills to make more accessible, this data, to improve confidence for those travelling alone at night. ## What it do...
## Inspiration With all team members living in urban cities, it was easy to use up all of our mobile data while on the go. From looking up restaurants nearby and playing pokemon go, it was easy to chew threw the limited data we had. We would constantly be looking for a nearby Tim Hortons, just to leech their wifi and ...
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## Inspiration Automation is at its peak when it comes to technology, but one area that has lacked to keep up, is areas of daily medicine. We encountered many moments within our family members where they had trouble keeping up with their prescription timelines. In a decade dominated by cell phones, we saw the need to ...
## Inspiration How many times have you forgotten to take your medication and damned yourself for it? It has happened to us all, with different consequences. Indeed, missing out on a single pill can, for some of us, throw an entire treatment process out the window. Being able to keep track of our prescriptions is key i...
Domain name: MedicationDedication.io ## Inspiration Drugs are often taken incorrectly due to infrequency of consumption and misused or stolen. Furthermore, drugs can be stored at poor temperatures and go bad. ## What it does Medication Dedication is a IoT project that aims to monitor pill usage and storage. Our pro...
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## What it does Khaledifier replaces all quotes and images around the internet with pictures and quotes of DJ Khaled! ## How we built it Chrome web app written in JS interacts with live web pages to make changes. The app sends a quote to a server which tokenizes words into types using NLP This server then makes a ca...
Ever wonder where that video clip came from? Probably some show or movie you've never watched. Well with RU Recognized, you can do a reverse video search to find out what show or movie it's from. ## Inspiration We live in a world rife with movie and tv show references, and not being able to identify these references ...
## Inspiration We're tired of plain old video players. Too much utilizable space goes to waste, and ads that *do* pop up distract the user from the viewing experience. We created a better way for video players and companies to both achieve their goals: present everything in a pleasant, concise format but also promote...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for the project was to design a model that could detect fake loan entries hidden amongst a set of real loan entries. Also, our group was eager to design a dashboard to help see these statistics - many similar services are good at identifying outliers in data but are unfriendly to the use...
## Inspiration As avid Canva fans, we noticed that when we needed to make QR codes in bulk, the native features were often cumbersome. Having to independently click to form each QR code would waste a lot of time. ## What it does Our app allows users to upload a list of QR codes and generate QR in bulk, thus saving u...
## 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...
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## Inspiration 🍪 We’re fed up with our roommates stealing food from our designated kitchen cupboards. Few things are as soul-crushing as coming home after a long day and finding that someone has eaten the last Oreo cookie you had been saving. Suffice it to say, the university student population is in desperate need o...
## Inspiration We were heavily focused on the machine learning aspect and realized that we lacked any datasets which could be used to train a model. So we tried to figure out what kind of activity which might impact insurance rates that we could also collect data for right from the equipment which we had. ## What it ...
## Inspiration Nowadays, large corporations are spending more and more money nowadays on digital media advertising, but their data collection tools have not been improving at the same rate. Nike spent over $3.03 billion on advertising alone in 2014, which amounted to approximately $100 per second, yet they only receiv...
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## Inspiration With iOS rolling out an in built QR code scanner in the camera, this provides a ubiquitous, easy to use (very low barrier of use) way to interact with real world objects. We envision a world where can access information about any real world object and interact with these objects simply by scanning and c...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for TapIt came from the potential of bus tickets, where a simple single-use ticket that would otherwise be thrown away (how wasteful!) can be configured to store information and interact with cell phones through Near Field Communication (NFC). We were intrigued by how this technology, of...
## Inspiration I dreamed about the day we would use vaccine passports to travel long before the mRNA vaccines even reached clinical trials. I was just another individual, fortunate enough to experience stability during an unstable time, having a home to feel safe in during this scary time. It was only when I started t...
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# About Us Discord Team Channel: #Team-25 secretage001#6705, Null#8324, BluCloos#8986 <https://friendzr.tech/> ## Inspiration Over the last year the world has been faced with an ever-growing pandemic. As a result, students have faced increased difficulty in finding new friends and networking for potential job offe...
## Inspiration I've always been inspired by the notion that even as just **one person** you can make a difference. I really took this to heart at DeltaHacks in my attempt to individually create a product that could help individuals struggling with their mental health by providing **actionable and well-studied techniqu...
## Problem In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult. #...
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## What it does Alzheimer's disease and dementia affect many of our loved ones every year; in fact, **76,000 diagnoses** of dementia are made every year in Canada. One of the largest issues caused by Alzheimer's is the loss of ability to make informed, cognitive decisions about their finances. This makes such patients...
## Inspiration ⚡️ Given the ongoing effects of COVID-19, we know lots of people don't want to spend more time than necessary in a hospital. We wanted to be able to skip a large portion of the waiting process and fill out the forms ahead of time from the comfort of our home so we came up with the solution of HopiBot. ...
*\*\*OUR PROJECT IS NOT COMPLETE*\* ## Inspiration Due to the pandemic, lots of people order in food instead of going to restaurant to be safe. There are many popular food delivery applications available and for a lot of people, they scroll through multiple apps to search for the cheapest price for the same items. It...
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## Inspiration Cryptocurrencies are a very recent trend and very few people envisioned Bitcoin's meteoric price increase. However, there are hundreds of other cryptocurrencies some of which have shown the explosive potential of Bitcoin. Our goal was to use machine learning to detect what's the difference between a cry...
## Inspiration Stock price movements are said to be unpredictable. We want to test out if machine learning and big data can do what only a few well-trained financial analysts can: predict stock price movements based on recent macroeconomic news. ## What it does Scraper module takes text content from news pages. The ...
## Inspiration We met at the event - on the spot. We are a diverse team, from different parts of the world and different ages, with up to 7 years of difference! We believe that there is an important evolution towards using data technology to make investment decisions & data applications to move to designing new financ...
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## Inspiration We aren't musicians. We can't dance. With AirTunes, we can try to do both! Superheroes are also pretty cool. ## What it does AirTunes recognizes 10 different popular dance moves (at any given moment) and generates a corresponding sound. The sounds can be looped and added at various times to create an ...
## Inspiration: We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world. ## What it does: Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o...
## Inspiration All of our teammates love music, so we decided to make something fun that involves music! ## What it does AirPiano recognizes your hand gestures--different gestures representing different sounds--and turn them into MIDI input, and then output the signals to music apps to form a melody. ## How we buil...
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## Inspiration At the start of their 3rd-to-last semester, every college junior starts talking about their "senior trip" ideas: some want to travel to Thailand, others to Italy, and others to Zion National Park. We realized that a social media platform could effectively aggregate everyone's travel wishlists and thus m...
## Inspiration Recently, security has come to the forefront of media with the events surrounding Equifax. We took that fear and distrust and decided to make something to secure and protect data such that only those who should have access to it actually do. ## What it does Our product encrypts QR codes such that, if ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the resilience of freelancers, particularly creative designers, during the pandemic. As students, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and not value our own work. We wanted to empower emerging designers and remind them of what we can do with a little bit of courage. And support. ## What it...
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