HackIDC Prize Winners Announced

May 9, 2016 | Winners of the 36-hour student hackathon called HackIDC, which was held at Israel’s IDC Herzliya last week, were announced. Some 250 students competed to create a web, mobile, or hardware product. The panel of judges included some of Israel’s most renowned entrepreneurs: Dov Moran, Gil Shwed and Prof. Amnon Shashua. The first place 15,000 NIS prize went to the BetYOURwish project, and app hoping to change the way internet shopping works. The app allows users to acquire products from the ‘wishlist’ at an affordable price by providing a variety of ebay products and amadeus flights in partial prices by participating in raffles. The second place 7,00 NIS prize went to the H-Ball project, an interactive catching game for children. With every pass of a smart ball the player gets to answer a question, by rattling the ball different directions. The questions pool can be altered by the parents and is meant to encourage an outdoor game with an intellectual challenge. The third place 3,000 NIS prize went to the FeelMybrand project, which predicts the success of internet products by analysis of the user’s different physiological measurements. The analysis is done by identification micro-movements which are filmed by a laptop webcam and are processed by an algorithm.