24 hours is a long time in the world of technology.
IN your average day, Google handles more than 3-billion searches, Twitter sees over 200-million tweets, and the iOS App-Store sees more than 500 app submissions.
What can you do with 24 hours? Well, that's what we're hoping to find out. Enter: Hack Manchester, a 24-hour coding* competition in the heart of the world's first city of industry.
For a whole weekend 27th-28th October 2012, teams of up to four will be coding up a storm to solve a variety of challenges and present their rough-and-ready creations to an eager audience.
As a featured event for this year's Manchester Science Festival, the hack day will be held in the coolest venue imaginable: