Hackers set sail to save the world
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When you combine one boat with 26 hackers and 100 days at sea, what do you get?
The voyagers hope it adds up to real-world solutions for the globe's most pressing issues -- from climate change to poverty.
Unreasonable At Sea, a new program aimed at creating technology to solve big problems, will put 11 teams of hackers, scientists and entrepreneurs from 16 countries onto a ship in January to see what bright minds in a confined space can come up with. The teams include a water purification startup, a company that is developing technology to give sight to the blind, a group that makes digitally programmable and rechargeable hearing aids, and a company building affordable and fuel-efficient stoves.
