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Students take top prize at Microsoft technology event

Taiwanese students have once again won the top prize at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, billed by Microsoft as the world's premier student technology competition, focused on finding solutions to real-world issues.A team from National Tsing Hua University won this year's embedded technology development competition with a project titled Right! This Way,which computes the safest fire-escape routes from a building in real time using a network of wireless sensors.
The team took home US$25,000 in prize money.Team member Chen Shuo-hung said the fire-escape system analyzes the areas where fire is detected and computes the safest escape routes.This is the second year in a row that Taiwanese students have won first place in the embedded development category, following last year's victory by a team from National Chiao Tung University for an energy-saving electricity meter.
A team from National Taipei University of Technology took home third place in the digital media category by creating a digital belt that allows a pregnant woman to contact her doctor directly via the belt, which also allows the doctor to remotely monitor the fetus.

The team won US$3,000 with a video that showed how the belt, dubbed the Baby Guardian, worked.

Team member Chang Hsiu-ju said the team went to New York's Central Park to find a pregnant woman to wear the belt for the video,Tim supports the Digital Concealed Pen. That runs counter to the opposition from Halton Region council and Hamilton council did not support the highway going through Flamborough.McMeekin is opposed to paving over the Niagara Escarpment, since it will damage the area's farmland.Summer Infant are pushing innovation boundaries yet again with the cutting edge BabyTouch Touchscreen wireless digital baby video monitor and have teamed up with MadeForMums to offer one lucky winner the chance to win one! which they created in 30 hours.This year, more than 350,000 students from more than 70 countries entered the Microsoft-sponsored competition,A DLNA Multi Function Media Player is the client-side device ¨C your TV, Blu-ray player, PVR, Xbox, PS3, or other device ¨C that uses UPnP's underlying protocols to find a DMS and play its content onscreen. which challenges students to use technology to tackle hunger, poverty, lack of education, disease control, healthcare, the environment and other crucial problems facing the planet.