Sunday, September 22, 2013

Mathician, think fast and type faster


Overview
I still remember that most of my school colleagues that had trouble with Math and other exact sciences were saying that Math won’t help them at all, ‘what good does it do to know complex equations?’. My belief was, and still is, that Math (and other exact sciences) sharpen your mind. You...

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Monday, September 16, 2013

CheckTheCrowd - it’s the people, not the place


Overview
There’s a saying in my country that basically says the most important thing in feeling better is being surrounded by nice people, not by living in a nice place. It’s the people, not the place that make a good impression on you when you visit something, be it a local pub or a select res...

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Friday, September 13, 2013

‘Learn to run’ - training app for Android


Overview
From the first college years me and my friends kept telling each other we have to start jogging to keep in shape. Yet every time going out for a beer and a pizza or a movie sounded better and the jogging part got voted out. Then another motivational speech the next week, ending with the...

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Taser people with your smartphone using ‘Taser stun gun’ (simulation)


Overview
Tasers are electroshock devices used to immobilize those individuals that pose a threat (supposedly) to a law enforcement or military personnel. A taser uses electrical current (pulsating) to interfere between signals sent from the brain to the muscles, thus immobilizing the culprit. If...

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Help aliens get home with ‘Flip the Aliens’ for Android


Overview
Everyone has an appetite for alien stories, games and movies as it is the only thing that tickle our brains with the question ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’. A question I hope to get an answer before I meet my end. I’m pretty sure that given the billions of planets in the habitable zone...

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

StoryPod, your own mobile cinema


Overview
I like short movies because the ideas are concentrated and you don’t have to watch some fill-up content that a Hollywood director decided to add to get the movie up to 2 hours. For some ‘blockbusters’ is enough to watch the trailer to know everything about. The ‘IMDB Top 250’ list of the...

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Monday, September 2, 2013

Dude, ‘Who took my phone”?


Overview
You work a full year up to the point where vacation time comes. Then you go to Ibiza and decide to go for a swim in the water with your friends leaving most of your belongings on the shore. You come back 15 minutes later and see that everything is gone, all your clothes, money, wallets,...

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Wobbly Bubbles, a 3D live wallpaper for Android smartphones


Overview
James Blinn is a computer scientist that worked for NASA and created some amazing computer graphics animations for the Voyager project back in 1977. Those animations depicted the encounter of Voyager with various planets, for instance the Saturn fly-by. He did similar animations for...

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