Community Innovative Projects
Convince us that you have a great ongoing innovative project and we'll give you our appreciation and our audience's full attention. You'll be rewarded with a spot on the stage to present your project and to crowdsource for resources within our audience at our main conference.
Apply your project for Community Innovative Projects
Innovation Expo
TEDxCluj Innovation Expo focuses on fostering entrepreneurship and showcasing innovative ideas. The Innovation Expo presents start-ups, university research labs and technology developers that will expand your horizons with breakthrough products and services from areas like Mobile, Social/Internet, Energy, Life Sciences, Robotics, Technology.
Our exposition of demos gathers cutting edge developments made by local innovators. They will present smart projects as clear and simple as possible, so you can understand why their innovative idea makes your life better, why you should use it in the future or why you are already using it without knowing it’s theirs.
During the conference, a mobile app poll will be available and through it a demo can be chosen by the audience to be presented in detail on stage.
Dear participant, during all breaks, you are encouraged to interact with our Innovation Expo developers and obtain a unique and brainy experience. We want to offer all our conference participants the opportunity to learn about innovative / leading edge products / and services projects and explore future opportunities.
Take innovation seriously!
Yonder- Application Innovation
The iTourist provides the tourist attractions of Dutch municipalities. For every participating municipality, a convenient map with Points of Interests (POI’s) or a comprehensive list is displayed. You decide what types of POI’s you see. Ranging from night life to museum and from nature park to parking. Change the radius in which you want to see the POI’s with a simple touch of a button. Besides the POI’s, some handy information of the municipality is displayed. This application was built by Yonder from end-to-end for one of our partners in the Netherlands, bringing them to the realm of modern web applications powered by HTML5.
"NewsPad 8" is professional platform dedicated to TV news room in Romania. The project is meant to replace the laptops in the broadcasting studios with Windows 8 tablets and to help the news people to present their information in an optimum way. Windows 8 is the new generation of Microsoft operating systems, mainly focused on mobile devices and touch-screen tablets. One of the main components of the new version is Metro, a design language based on typography, interface simplicity and contents prominence. This proof-of-concept was developed by Yonder in cooperation with Microsoft Romania and was presented at Ronewmedia, last week.
Yonder
At Yonder we strongly believe that innovation is driven by the changing world of IT. We see that every day around us and the advent of mobile devices and applications is probably the most obvious fact supporting this statement. We now see innovation that wouldn’t have been possible without the mobile devices. The GPS navigation is probably one of the most simple examples, but now with applications like Word Lens or Square and visions such as Google’s Glass Project we clearly see that disruption is just around the corner.
One of our main focus is to drive new and upcoming technologies within our partner’s products. That’s how we make innovation happen and that’s what Application Innovation is really about. And to show some results of our actions in this field we brought at the Innovation Fair two innovative mobile projects.
CashControl
Stay on top of your finances – www.cashcontrol.ro
Take control of your expenses, incomes, bils and loans, plan your budgets and reach your personal financial goals with CashControl - the most complete personal finance web app in Romania that helps you see where your money goes and get an insight on your spending habits.
Creating a safe enviroment for your financial info is one of our top priorities and that’s why we use 128-bit SSL encryption for our website – the same security protocol that banks use. You can even export all of your data, anytime, whether for another software or you just want to keep a backup of everything for extra personal assurance. Our free mobile apps will help you track your money on-the-go. See what's happening with all your accounts at any moment of the day.
It’s easy to stay on top of your money with CashControl. Sign up takes less than five minutes. You should try it! www.cashcontrol.ro
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program that began in May 2005 in which Google provides funding (5000 dollars) to hundreds of students (last year attended 1100) who manage to make a contribution software development project open-source, non-commercial. During a summer - twelve weeks from May to August. The program is targeted at students over 18 years of any university in the world.
Google does not define the tasks directly, but instead chooses open-source organizations who can participate(180 year), giving each a predetermined number of positions paid for student, some organizations receiving one or two, others up to eight new, according to the importance that Google believes that organizations have. Students can then contact the organizations directly with ideas for contributions, and they decide what students and projects are accepted.
Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
GSoC is a charity program that helps both open-source software and organizations, and also students, helping them to create contacts in the industry (mentors) and gain experience to get jobs related their areas of study.
In total, in 2005, took part in this program 6000 students, 3000 mentors from over 100 countries all around the world.
MIRA
MIRA (Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant) is a medical solution designed for the people who are suffering from temporarily movement disabilities and must go through a period of rehabilitation therapy to regain movement, mobility and reflexes. MIRA application, guided by the principles of occupational therapy, suggests a recovery environment, based on interactive video games and the recent technology offered through Microsoft Kinect.
MIRA is made of a series of rehabilitation exercises in the form of interactive games, games that also monitor and store information about the movements made by patients during recovery. The stored data is used to create statistics on which the doctor can see the evolution of patients and make decisions on their recovery program. In early 2012, the project was tested in Pediatric Rehabilitation Center "Nicolae Robanescu" in Bucharest. These tests have provided feedback and ideas for improvement and implementation of MIRA application.
The project is still developing; the team is currently working on designing new medical exercises that would cover as many pathologies as possible. This summer, the team aims to begin clinical testing in rehabilitation centers in Romania, and hopes in the end to get a medical certificate validation for the program so that MIRA could be launched for commercial use.
Simplex
MIRA is the project of Simplex team, a group of students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University: Alina Calin, Andrei Canta, Dascălu Andrei Cosmin Mihaiu, and their supervisor, lecturer Dr. Dan Suciu. They represented Romania in the last two years at the largest IT student competition, Microsoft Imagine Cup and MIRA solution got them a place in the top 6 countries in the world at the World Finals in New York 2011.
After their success, the students continued product development and had the opportunity to meet different healthcare officials, interested in the project, both in Romania and in Germany or the United States.
Robotics: Bazinga
BattleLab Robotics Competition is a good opportunity for students to use skills based on theoretical concepts assimilated during faculty. The competition wants to encourage the team spirit, to develop organizational and management capacities in a real project and to stimulate students.
The competition theme this year was building autonomous sumo robots, able to identify and remove from the playing surface, the rival robot, in competitions like "1 on 1".
Bazinga robot won this years competition. The design, materials procurement and construction of the machinery lasted about four and a half months and the team has spent about 2000 euro on it.
All robots in the competition have to comply with the construction norms (total weight: 3kg max, size 20 x 20 cm, no height limit), but a good robot, such as Bazinga, must meet the following conditions: simple programs, good and fast engines, fast sensors. Bazinga can reach 5 meters per second. Bazinga, the name of the robot is actually an exclamation from a TV series called Big Bang Theory.
Bazinga was created and conducted by Bogdan Genis students (22 years) and Bogdan Hopulele (24). First is the fourth year at the Faculty of Computer Science, and the second master the same university
