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Giveback projects made for local communities


What's new (Summer 2025):

- Major upgrade to MedScan - It can now analyze medication labels for non-prescription drugs and understands foreign languages too. It's a complete rewrite. It now utilizes the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash model. Text recognition is much more robust than the frame-by-frame analysis v1.0 uses.

- A brand-new tool for travellers exploring new places:  Good Food Ahead

This app scans for highly-rated restaurants (4.5+ stars) as you explore new places. Once it discovers one, it sends you a notification with ratings, price range and walking time to it.

No manual effort is required! Everything runs in background mode.

- Enhancements to MyCommunityWatch.org - It looks for nearby incidents (using Toronto Call-for-Police Data) to alert you of important events such as fire, robbery, shooting within 15 minutes.

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Good Food Ahead

This app does the discovery work for you.  It scans for highly-rated restaurants (4.5+ stars) in the background and notifies you.

Best for travellers exploring a new location.

Key Features:

- Everything is automatic. As you walk towards a highly-rated restaurant that is currently open, you will receive a notification.

- Notification includes price range, ratings and walking time to get there

- Intuitive icons (e.g. a Japanese flag is used to indicate Japanese cuisines on the map)

- Privacy friendly: No personal data is collected and no ads.

iOS Download
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MedScan - A super easy way to understand medication labels in many languages

1) Take a video of your medication's label (It can handle non-English text too.)

2) MedScan will analyze the video and explain what the medication is for in non-technical language

3) Read it out in your choice of language (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, etc.)

All of this is achieved using the camera. It is designed to be very simple to use and senior-friendly. Video demo (15s).

*** Reminder: Always follow your doctor's guidance. This tool makes it easier for us to know the medication is for only. ***

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MyCommunityWatch.org

This tool scans police incident reports daily from public datasets (Toronto, York, Peel, Durham, Halton, Montréal and Santa Clara county, California, USA) and email you recent incidents (e.g. car thefts) near you.

It's a free, community-giveback service made by volunteers.

MyCommunityWatch.org
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BuzzWatch

To help the hearing impaired, this Apple watch app listens for important sounds (e.g. car horns) and alert them using vibrations on their wrists.

- On device analysis only
- No audio recording / network calls
- Source code is published

- Supports sirens, car horns, baby cries, smoke alarm, etc

Open-sourced. Feel free to reuse this as a starting point / templates for other projects.

iOS
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3PO

3PO is a first-of-a-kind app that can auto-identify language being spoken and translate it in real-time.

No configuration is required.

Just start and talk.  With support using built-in speaker/mic, or in ear buds mode.

It also supports continuous translation for listening to translated public broadcasts using your headset.

More Details Android iOS
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[New!] Calmness Meter

Score your meditations using Muse Headband's EEG data.

iOS
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Sidekick 

Navigation with Video Recording and local features for Toronto such as:

- Alert you of Speed Camera ahead
- Report pot hole to Toronto311 with just one touch
- Help you choose if it's worth taking a toll route (e.g. spend $5 of toll to save 15 minutes of travel time?)

iOS
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How Deep? 

Tap on map to show sea depth or land altitudes. Perfect for cruises and hiking trips.

It can also capture your travel trails in the background (optionally) to show breadcrumbs on your map.

[Data source: Google Maps Elevation API]

iOS Demo
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What's that plane flying above me?

When you hear the sound of an aircraft flying in the sky, have you ever wondered... "What type of aircraft is it? Where is it flying to?"

If yes, this app is for you. It answers that exact question.

You can scan the sky manually by pressing the Search button or let the app auto-detect flights when it hears the sound of aircrafts. It uses AI sound classification models to achieve that.

Designed with privacy protection in mind.

iOS
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SuperRoute

Google, Apple, MapQuest, HERE, OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, Azure Maps all has its own strength & weaknesses.

SuperRoute shows you routes generated by all of them on the same map so you can evaluate which one fits your needs best.

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Lunar Calendar Event Generator


Google Calendar/Microsoft Outlook does not allow us to create recurring events based on lunar calendar (e.g. grandparents' birthdays, mid-autumn festivals)

This little web site generates an calendar import file (.ics) for your selected lunar events for the coming 60 years.

You can then import the generated .ics file into Google Calendar/Outlook /iPhone Calendar so it's easy to remember when to call/visit them on their birthdays 🎂

Web
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Travel Shopping Buddy

Allows travellers to see the price of an item (with tax) in their home currency instantly, without clicking any buttons.

[Augmented reality using your iPhone's camera]


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Privacy Policy


These tools collect data for the purpose of providing their features only.  

We do not sell data to any advertisers or data aggregation agencies.

(Last updated March 30, 2020)

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Contacts

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Other Projects

magic.evergreen-labs.org - See kids grow visually. It generates video that shows how their faces evolve over time. 


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