Now there’s an application for people fueled by action sports. Using Foursquare technology, Filip Mlekicki developed ‘Shred Something,’ a smart phone app that allows action sports enthusiasts to communicate and add location data about extreme activity hotspots. This app is set to rip-it-up in the skateboarding, cycling, surfing and snowboarding communities.
Posted April 7th, 2011
NYU-Poly’s fourth annual Time Warner Cable Inno/Vention Competition drew a record 123 entries from among its own undergraduate and graduate students and — for the first time — teams from nationally recognized high school science programs. The finalist projects were not simply brilliant technical solutions: In keeping with NYU-Poly’s philosophy of i-squared-e — invention, innovation and entrepreneurship — the projects were also subjected to rigorous business analysis.
