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Two life-changing ideas selected as Google Impact finalists

Innovation Research

Two projects involving Oxford University technology are among the ten finalists in the 2014 Google Impact Challenge, and you can vote to help decide the winners.

The two projects are:

Smart glasses for people with sight loss to make the most of their remaining vision – a partnership between the Royal National Institute of Blind People and a research team in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences led by Dr Stephen Hicks; and

Wearable acoustic sensors to track disease-carrying mosquitos in Indonesia – a programme led by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science, Malaria Atlas Project and the Eijkman Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Jakarta.

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