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Slideshow: Y Combinator hackathon's prize-winning designs
Rick Merritt
3/8/2013 2:01 AM EST
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Imagine sending an Instagram to your Internet toaster and printing it—on whole wheat or white bread. Imagine creating your own vision for a variant of Google's Project Glass.
Those were among the 32 projects from more than 130 designers at a recent all-day event organized by Upverter.com and hosted by Y Combinator, a startup incubator in Mountain View, Calif.
Winners took home iPads, Pebble watches, Arduino kits and Raspberry Pi boards after dedicating about 10 hours of their Saturday to hacking on their best ideas. Some took with them hopes of products that could make it to the market or new-formed teams that could be the heart of a new startup. Others just had a good time.
Here’s a look at some of the winners.
Those were among the 32 projects from more than 130 designers at a recent all-day event organized by Upverter.com and hosted by Y Combinator, a startup incubator in Mountain View, Calif.
Winners took home iPads, Pebble watches, Arduino kits and Raspberry Pi boards after dedicating about 10 hours of their Saturday to hacking on their best ideas. Some took with them hopes of products that could make it to the market or new-formed teams that could be the heart of a new startup. Others just had a good time.
Here’s a look at some of the winners.
Two teams worked on variants of Google’s $1,500 glasses-mounted computer. One team (above) used laser-cut medium-density fibreboard and embedded LEDs that could indicate when the wearer faced north. Another team (below) created Prism, a more thorough knock-off of Google’s concept complete with an embedded display and gesture recognition.
Photos courtesy of Kuy Mainwaring and Sam Wurzel of Octopart.
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3/10/2013 3:52 PM EDT
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3/10/2013 4:01 PM EDT
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3/10/2013 4:01 PM EDT
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deshepherd
3/14/2013 9:04 AM EDT
"Imagine sending an Instagram to your Internet toaster and printing it—on whole wheat or white bread"
Yes I can, and in fact I remember reading about it on The Register ... quick search there shows it wsa in 2008 ... maybe the idea has just been "incubating" for the last 5 years
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