Problem

Our team learned about photosensitive epilepsy, which is more prevalent in children, and designed a solution to help prevent seizures induced by certain frequencies of light. In the infamous "Denno Senshi Porygon" incident of 1997, 685 people were hospitalized in Japan due to seizures triggered during the battle scene of the evening’s Pokemon episode.

Pitch Deck (pdf) Hong Kong news

Solution

We called the wearable Alluminate: a camera + computer vision detects if a harmful light frequency is observed. Then, electrochromic lenses are triggered to dim so that the flashing is not observed by the wearer. Our simple prototype showed we could automatically identify the frequencies with a smartphone camera, and that we could block out all the light with cheap electrochromic film inserts in glasses.

Alluminate was 1st runner up of the hackathon.

DreamCatchers 2019 MedTech Hackathon