List of hackathons about wearables in 2016

This is a three-day hackathon to hack into our brains with ideas on health, care and quality of life. Attendees will be working with different EEG-type techniques to measure, visualize and interpret their own brain activity. Learn what you can do with brainwaves, measure happiness, health, love, and influence the brain to improve our quality of life. There will also be keynotes and discussions with experts alongside the actual hackathon. The event will end with public pitches and reflection of the teams.

Interested in how technology can help people with disabilities or seniors? Participate in this hackathon for digital service autonomy: disability, home care, old age. Participants can be students, employees, freelance, entrepreneurs, independent professionals, researchers or those seeking employment, particularly in the field of IT, design, marketing, digital usages. The goal of the hackathon is to design and build a prototype product or digital service and present the user experience for people with disabilities or seniors under two themes: the live well and age well.

Internet of Cows? Who would have thought that the Internet of Things (IoT) could be applied to livestock? The Internet of Cows is an initiative to connect the productive chain of livestock in the cloud, in order to improve the collection of livestock activity data, and thus increase efficiency. So come and help build the Internet of Cows—focusing on using RFID technology and newer types of sensors for data collection in the field, and efficient platforms for buying and selling.

Internet of Cows? Who would have thought that the Internet of Things (IoT) could be applied to livestock? The Internet of Cows is an initiative to connect the productive chain of livestock in the cloud, in order to improve the collection of livestock activity data, and thus increase efficiency. So come and help build the Internet of Cows—focusing on using RFID technology and newer types of sensors for data collection in the field, and efficient platforms for buying and selling.

All techies in New South Wales! If you're ready to create next-generation ideas for Newcastle and the Hunter Region? Participate in the HunterHackFest. The hackathon format is designed to stimulate ideas amongst teams and help you prototype next-generation ideas and business concepts for Newcastle and the Hunter Region!

Is Virtual Reality your thing? Come and participate in the Philippine Mobile VR Jam. Open for all participants--students, professionals, artists or programmers. The Philippine Mobile VR Jam is a Virtual Reality hackathon that will bring together brilliant minds to learn and collaborate on creating applications with immersive mobile virtual reality technologies. Over the period of 42 hours, teams are tasked to create their own Virtual Reality game or app for the Samsung Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset.

HunterHackFest is calling out all Hunter region Hackers, Hipsters and Hustlers to join a dash of MakerFaire spirit, a pinch of StartupWeekend spice and some heat from the crucible of TheEdwards Bar and Innx.Hub workspace to quicken the digital pulse of the Hunter region and its urban spaces. Your creations will be part of the Hunter Innovation Festival!

If you like APIs, Slack, Trello, IFTTT, and using bots to create and automate tasks, you might enjoy our hackathon, Hack the Office. It runs from June 3-5 and the idea is to create the smart assistant of tomorrow to make our work lives better. There’ll be APIs, €10,000 in prizes and many other surprises.

VR Philippines together with Samsung are bringing you a Workshop on Mobile VR App development in preparation for the Philippine Mobile VR Jam on June 10-12. This workshop is intended for beginners, and will cover everything you need to develop your first Mobile VR App for the Samsung Gear VR. The Samsung Gear VR is a mobile virtual reality headset developed by Samsung, in collaboration with Oculus. This workshop is open to everyone. You don't need to have prior experience in Blender, Unity or C#, but basic coding knowledge is expected. You should bring your laptop with the latest versions of the following free software and tools pre-installed: Blender, Unity, Android SDK (no need for Android Studio), Java Runtime, Environment, and Java Development Kit. Join this workshop to meet brilliant minds, learn and collaborate on creating applications and hardware solutions with immersive mobile virtual reality technologies and help define the future of the technology!

Hackingfest is a hackathon series on software and hardware organized for those developers and designers who are passionate about hacking for real-world issues. Come along to gain new experience, create great projects and make many new friends! Awards will be given out best ideas and projects!