The Imagine Cup, now in its eighth year, encourages high school and university students around the world to develop software aiming to solve global problems.
Team Skeek from Thailand took home the top prize for software design for creating a program that translates text into sign language using speech and facial recognition. Their application eyeFeel lets hearing impaired people communicate using a visual augmented reality environment.
Team Skeek Wins Top Prize at Imagine Cup, photo courtesy of Microsoft
SmarterME from Taiwan won the embedded development category with a device that targets the biggest energy-suckers in the home. The application lets homeowners see the appliances that use the most power and raise the electric bill.
By Implication from the Philippines won in game design for an X-Box enabled game that allows players to perform human intelligence tasks and gets young people interested in volunteering. It uses an X-Box controller and social media to encourage youth to help battle some of the worlds biggest problems, ranging from poverty to environmental disasters.
The game Wildfire was inspired byTyphoon Ketsana, a devastating storm that ravaged the island nation.
The winning team in each of the five categories took home $25,000. The other winners were:
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