New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible 156
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.
Re:Easily gamed? (Score:4, Interesting)
Why not just use your root access and write a program that puts a different value on the accelerometers?
Let's see if someone can hit the Apollo 11 landing site.
Two best things about ./ in this story (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!