Every year since 2003, the Microsoft Imagine Cup has invited student teams from around the world to compete for gold and glory, while “using technology to solve the world’s toughest problems.”
At this summer’s competition in Seattle, Wamda’s Stephanie d’Arc Taylor sat down with the finalists from Bahrain, Alaa Mohammed and Marwa Buhaila, in the midst of their busy schedule of training sessions and press conferences. Their product, called Nail Polish Mixer, had earned them a week’s trip to Seattle, a spot at the finals among 120 other students from all over the world, and eventually, a third-place prize in the Innovation category.
“I was searching for an idea for a senior class project,” said Mohammed, 24, when asked about the idea behind her project. “Last summer, I came home and found my sister sitting at a table with 127 bottles of nail polish, unable to decide which one.” The computer engineering major sprung into action, and developed a device that has solved this very particular problem.
Nail Polish Mixer is a software and hardware combination that prints a custom nail polish color in less than 60 seconds. Users pull up the palette app on their mobile or tablet, pick a color, and the software wirelessly communicates with the hardware to print the polish in the perfect shade.
Original article by Stephanie d’Arc Taylor
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Bahrain women win innovation award at 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup
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