想象一下，把一张 Instagram 照片发送到你的连网烤面包机，然后在全麦或是白吐司上把图片印出来…或者是在类似Google眼镜的衍生装置上创造你自己的视觉影像──以上都是在一场近日在美国加州举行的设计挑战赛上，由130多位参赛者提出的32件作品内容。
这场由总部位于美国加州Mountain View的新创公司育成中心 Y Combinator ，与云端工程平台供货商Upverter.com共同举办的设计挑战赛，经过10个小时左右的脑力激荡，优胜者就可以把 iPad 、Pebble手表、Arduino开发工具与Raspberry Pi迷你计算机等奖品搬回家。这些参赛者有的期望他们的作品能真的上市，有的则希望能成为一家新创公司的创办人，也有人只是来尽情享受一段有趣的时光。
以下来看看一些精彩的优胜作品吧！
Google眼镜的衍生装置
有两个参赛队伍开发的作品是Google眼镜的衍生装置，其中一个采用雷射切割的中密度纤维板(fibreboard)制成、嵌入LED灯，当使用者的脸朝向北方时就会出现指示灯号。
指北针眼镜
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另一个队伍所开发的Prism眼镜，看起来更接近Google眼镜的概念；该产品具备嵌入式显示器，支持手势识别功能。
支持手势识别的Prism眼镜
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连网烤面包机
下图是一款名为IO Toaster的装置，结合了烤面包机与打印机的功能，创作者表示它能“为早餐加入云端概念”；开发该装置的团队成员包括是采用来自一个LED矩阵的编码，把热传导控制结果化为图像。
连网烤面包机
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该团队表示，IO Toaster的潜能无穷，能烤出以下几种丰富早餐：
˙FaceToast──你的朋友在facebook上发表的最新动态，会出现在你的早餐里；
˙Instagram Toast──在吐司上印出颇具艺术风格的照片图案(如下图)；
连网烤面包机作品──Instagram Toast
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˙虚拟实境吐司──让有点无趣的QR cores营养地在你的早餐上呈现；
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连网烤面包机作品──虚拟实境吐司
˙Pop Tweets──内有最新微博消息的吐司，可以添加你喜爱的果酱；
˙FlipToast ──烤出一种可食用的FlipBook动画小书，但变成书的技术还在开发中；
˙愤怒吐司──会朝那些不吃早餐就去学校的小孩子们发射吐司…
连网烤面包机开发者之一
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这个疯狂的开发团队(如上图)甚至想出一种应用程序，让IO Toaster使用者可以透过触控功能来画出你想要的图案或句子，然后烤在吐司上。
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抓住大奖的机器手…
下图是一种名为Tactilus 的触觉回馈手套，能与3D环境进行互动；手套上的电线会在穿戴者的手指上施加压力，使穿戴着好象在与虚拟的物体接触。
Tactilus触觉回馈手套
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触觉手套的灵感来自于Jack Minardy (下图的帅哥)，然后有5个原本不相识的人被这个点子所吸引，决定组成团队将Tactilus付诸实现；除了Minardy，他们包括Matt Bigarani、Nick Bergseng、 Neal Mueller与Tom Sherlock。
Jack Minardy
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Jack Minardy与团队成员
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健身手套
下图的Body API是一款综合性的身体指针收集装置，能为运动爱好者记录重要的信息。
Body API健身手套
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能透过手机应用程序遥控的宝宝摇篮
下图是一款能让父母透过手机应用程序来激活的电动宝宝摇篮概念图，不用手就能推喔！
透过手机应用程序遥控的宝宝摇篮
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该场设计挑战赛的30个队伍是在竞赛结束前，各自以2分钟时间来演示文稿自己的设计作品；其中获得“最具市场潜力”奖的是一款名为DIYNot的插头，它一边可接充电装置，一边接着插座，使用者随时可关掉这其中2A的耗电。
Y Combinator参赛者作品演示文稿时间
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还有一款获得评审青睐的作品是窗帘控制器(Window Blind Controller)，能在夜晚时阻挡窗外的街灯亮光，又在白天时让阳光透进窗；另外还有一款超音波拐杖，能透过触觉回馈来引导盲人朋友前进。
其它得奖作品还包括连网给药器，会响应微博消息吐出药片(或M&M巧克力)；以及一种支持Wi-Fi功能的家用电灯开关，让新新人类能享受远程控制(或是恶作剧)的乐趣。
下图左就是这场设计挑战赛执行者Upverter.com的Zack Hormuth，Upverter.com网站平台也曾在Facebook的开放运算高峰会(Open Compute Summit)期间，以及纽约、中国深圳等地举办“hackathon”写程序马拉松活动。
Upverter.com的Zack Hormuth (左)
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Slideshow: Y Combinator hackathon's prize-winning designs
Rick Merritt
An Internet Toaster, two pair of faux Google glasses and two novel electronic gloves emerged from a hackathon organized by Upverter and hosted by Y Combinator. 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.
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.
Printing on whole wheat or white
The IO Toaster (above) is sort of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of social electronics. It’s an Internet-connected combo toaster/printer that creators say can “bring the cloud to your breakfast.”
The team adapted code from an LED matrix to control heat transmission down to the pixel level. They hope to present the device at the Augmented World Expo at SXSW as well as at other hackathons and hardware meetups.
The team included Sam Cuttriss, Josh Cardenas, Tish Shute, Lauren Elliott, Jason Appelbaum and both Otto Leichliter III and IV.
Peripherals and apps for the IO Toaster
The potential for the IO Toaster is great, said team members who brainstormed spin off products including:
· FaceToast: Your friends’ Facebook status messages pop up automatically at breakfast.
· Instagram Toast: Patented sepia tone filters add artistic textures to photos (above). Too grainy?
· Toasted, Augmented Reality: Toast revitalizes boring QR codes (below).
· Pop Tweets: Twitter toaster pastries. Follow your favorite fruit flavor.
· FlipToast: Create an edible FlipBook with a carb-hinge technology in development.
· Angry Toast: A hyper sling and gimble add on hurls slices at kids trying to leave for school without breakfast.
Touch screen toaster displays
Designers of the IO Toaster created this animation to show the romantic possibilities of their product.
Grand prize was a real grabber
The Tactilus is a haptic feedback glove for interacting with 3-D environments. A series of cables applies pressure to the wearer's fingers to resist their motion in response to pushing against a virtual object.
Meet the Tactilus team
Jack Minardy had the idea to create a haptic glove. Five strangers who stopped by his table and liked the idea became a virtual team for the day, bringing Tactilus to life. They are (from left) Matt Bigarani, Nick Bergseng, Jack Minardy, Neal Mueller and Tom Sherlock. Not pictured: Oren Bennett.
Fitness glove has something up its sleeve
The Body API is a comprehensive metric-gathering device that gives the sports enthusiast a big data boost.
Baby gets a robo rocker
One team prototyped its invention for an automatic baby rocker using an electric can opener. Parents can control it visa a mobile app.
And other winners were...
At the end of the day, 30 groups took two minutes each to pitch their hack (below), some of which judges pitches in the circular file. A handful of others got various levels of recognition.
The winner in the most marketable category was the DIYNot, a plug that fits between your recharging device and the socket to turn off the two amp energy flow anytime you want. The Window Blind Controller, a clip on device that keeps streetlight out in the night and lets sunlight in during the day, got a nod from judges.
Judges also liked the Walkmen, an ultrasound virtual walking stick with haptic feedback for guiding disabled people. A team from Electric Imp got the Corporate Shill Award for a networked dispenser that spits out M&Ms in response to tweets. Another group added Wi-Fi links to home switches opening a circuit for new kinds of remote controls—and pranks.
From here to China and back
Zack Hormuth of Upverter.com (left), organizer for the event, helps hacker Matt Sarnoff. Upverter led a hackathon at Facebook’s Open Compute Summit. It also has hackathons in the works for New York City and Shenzhen.
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