We went to LA to visit the city’s top hackathon: LA Hacks at UCLA. Over 1,000 participants had just over 36 hours to build an original piece of technology. And the grand prize? A Frontier Airlines All-You-Can-Fly GoWild pass. Soon’s Dagsen Love tries to predict the winner, while meeting student teams building everything from earthquake rescue robots to skin disease detection apps.
00:47 Eye-powered keyboard
01:50 Acoustic intelligence app for studying
02:31 Transforming AI waste heat into clean water
03:29 Earthquake rescue robot
04:12 Escape route app for natural disasters
04:50 Mindfulness app for kids
05:15 How AI is driving more hackathon participation
05:49 Open source AWS
06:41 Biometric analysis for study focus
07:32 Skin disease monitoring app
08:25 Open source cybersecurity
09:08 Diagnostic and prevention layer for AI coding agents
09:28 Predicting the winners
10:37 Grand prize winner interview
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