Test Bed sadly could not make it down to Yahoo's Open Hack Day at the weekend, which the company says was attended by 300 developers from 15 countries.

The winners, a team from Dundee University, Yahoo!s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) platform to create an application to allow people with disabilities to search the web using the blink of an eye via an on-screen keyboard.

Second was an application providing online real-time translations  of  proceedings in the European parliament. Sadly it doesn't appear to translate double Dutch, which many EU handouts we get are written in. But perhaps we shouldn't be flippant about these things, coming from a country with the impertinence to expect foreigners to speak its language.

Another winning app speeds up  searches for musicians, music broadcast and tracks. The Hacker's Choice award went to an application called Open Freecycle, which searches for items across all Freecycle groups that make  unwanted items freely available.