I wrote a while ago about Team One Beep, the group of University of Auckland students who had come up with an innovative way to send data out to remote areas using a sliver of FM radio spectrum. Well, late last week we heard that Team One Beep took out third place at the final […]
MoreA few weeks back I wrote about a team of University of Auckland engineers who had come up with a seemingly novel and low cost way to get educational information out to villages in poor outlying areas. Team One Beep was competing as part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where teams of university students compete […]
MoreYesterday was intense. As a judge on the preliminary round of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, which pits teams of university students against each other in a bid to find the top four most innovative and potentially world-changing projects, it was a blur of powerpoint slides and Dragon’s Den-style questioning as we got through twenty 20-minute pitches […]
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PETER GRIFFIN 