Software

Developers Cubed: A Mobile Phone And A Digital Stethoscope

Gizmodo AU

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: We chat with the recent winners of the Australian leg of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Team Stethocloud about how you go about developing a new and hugely less expensive stethscope as a smartphone app, what happens next for the team and why medical development might be the overlooked field that Aussie developers should target next.


March 6, 2012
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Science

Imagine World Cup: Qantas Loses Aussie ‘Thought Control’ Tech

Gizmodo AU

This sucks. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is an annual student challenge to tackle major issues with technology, but this year’s Australian team have been knocked-out of the finals in the US. Qantas lost their headset that turns thoughts into words — and the wheelchair it controls — and couldn’t deliver them until after the presentation to judges.


April 28, 2010
Science

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010: Students Take On Big Problems With Tech

The US finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, an annual competition that encourages students to tackle big problems with technology, were held yesterday. One winning solution: combining cameraphones and powerful software to detect diseases in developing areas of the world.