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New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible

Posted by Soulskill on from the mobile-darwinism dept.

kdryer39 writes "Like to tempt fate? Then you might want to check out Send Me To Heaven, the Android app that uses your phone's accelerometers to track how high it travels when thrown upward. Assuming you don't fumble your handset on its return trip, its distance will join that of other daredevils on the game's leaderboards. That's all there is to it. Really." I can't wait for the desktop version.

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  1. Desktop version? Pshaw. by ZorinLynx · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need a version that runs on a VAX 11/780.

    "HOLY SHIT DUDE FIVE INCHES! That's awesome!! ...why is the floor cracking?"

    *CRASH*

    1. Re:Desktop version? Pshaw. by Chemisor · · Score: 5, Funny

      XKCD is relevant, as usual.

  2. But did you know... by NitzJaaron · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that it's the first app collaboratively designed by AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon? ;)

  3. Diaper App by RedHackTea · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should add this to a diaper so that I can see how high I can throw babies!

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  4. Two best things about ./ in this story by Acapulco · · Score: 5, Interesting

    THIS story and its comments is why I keep returning to /. despite having the many flaws we all know about.

    Take any random idea and code it. Post it on /. and two things happen:

    - People find prior art of it, to different degrees of precedence.
    - People start finding ways to improve/cheat the system, to different degrees of sophistication, complexity and plausibility.

    I mean, seriously. You can argue all you want about this community and its (our?) shortcomings, but you can't deny at some point just having a bunch of geeks or whatever you want to call us, discussing things like this story definitely gets interesting and fun.

    Cheers fellow /.ers!

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  5. Electronic device IQ tests... by tlambert · · Score: 5, Funny

    Electronic device IQ tests...

    I wrote a program on a similar principle in 1983. It ran on a mainframe, and was called "He-man, Dangerous-man". Here's how it worked:

    1) Draw an ASCII art carnival hammer strength meter
    2) Put up text on the terminal telling the user that it is a strength meter
    3) Tell the user "When I say 'go!', hit the return key as hard as you can!"
    4) Count down from 10, and then print "go!"
    5) When the return key is hit, make the little ASCII art "weight" go a random amount 2/3-3/4s way up the screen toward the "bell"
    6) If the key to the left of the return key is hit, make it go all the way up and print ^G so you can demonstrate superior strength

    Obviously, I was forced to remove it, the first time some idiot actually fell for it and broke the keyboard on a Televideo 912 terminal.