Expn$e
The People: Muhammad Hijazi, Dg Ku Zuraidah, Dila Zamry
The Challenge: Tracking financial information is an important part of our daily lives, but many of us don’t do it because it’s not fun and it’s time consuming.
The Idea: To incentivize people to track their financial information by combining tracking with social networking applicaitons like FourSquare and twitter. As users check in and “check out” of locations, they track how much money they spent at the location. This data can be automatically categorized by expense type using FourSquare venue categories.
Afterwards: Muhammad Hijazi continues to develop the application. He has posted it to the Apple App Store, so you can download Expn$e for the iPhone here. Keep a lookout for a new version with a simplified interface!
Social Edutainment Quizzes
The People: Joshua TLY
The Challenge: Provide students with a simple and fun way of studying for their exams.
The Idea: A Facebook-based social game where students can challenge each other to answer SPM questions.
Afterwards: Joshua became a winner of MDeC’s Facebook Applet Challenge. He will be receiving a prize and intensive training to develop Facebook applets.
Hybrid Life
The People: Dan Ciambrone, Joanna Marie Gough
The Challenge: There are major inefficiencies in the modern alternating current (AC) electrical infrastructure. Direct Current (DC) is a far more appropriate method of transmitting electricity because most of our electronics run on DC.
The Idea: We want to create the ability to capture and store DC power from small-scale energy production sources such as solar, wind, and other kinetic energy. We would like to create a market for energy recapture consumer products which capture “loose” or wasted sources of energy in the household.
We are building a prototype watermill that produces enough electricity to light and LED light and later to charge a battery system which can output USB. For more, see Dan’s blog http://danciambrone.tumblr.com/.
Afterwards: Dan used this project as part of his applications to 7 universities, including MIT.
Take me through college
The People: Ann Sha, Fird Ross, Munir Basheer, Munirah
The Challenge: Students have difficulty purchases books and other school-related materials.
The Idea: A web site that enables companies to hire students to do odd jobs for a short period of time (e.g. 1-2 days). These jobs are ideally suited to students because they cannot commit to jobs for extensive periods of time.
Cheap bastard studios
The People: Siddhart Shekar, Sharief Manjur
The Challenge: Teaching people how to get into filmmaking and do so at an affordable cost.
The Idea: An online DIY show that shows people how to do filmmaking and create props on the cheap.
Whereit.at ?
The People: Harinder Singh
The Challenge: Finding what events are happening around you, by location.
The Idea: Create a web-based application that streams event information from multiple sources and places it as pinpoints around you on a map.
