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Send Me to Heaven
- robotnikman 3y agoReminds me of one of when I made my first android app way back in the early days of android; it made the phone scream whenever it detected it was falling.
- nurettin 3y agoDetecting a fall is pretty hard, especially if the device is tumbling rather than accelerating in a particular axis. So congratulations on that.
- robotnikman 3y agoWell technically it wasn't just falls, it pretty much activated on any sudden movement lol.
- FrankoDelMar 3y agoNow someone needs to make a "shake phone to scream" app
- SliceOfWaifu 3y agoReminds me of that webcomic strip where the scientist proudly announces he made a robot that screams, and his colleague asks him why.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoAre rocket motors allowed?
- ginko 3y agoThat would be detectable as continuous acceleration rather than large initial acceleration followed by none for the duration of the throw.
- rvbissell 3y agoMore accurately: initial upward acceleration while under impulse, immediately followed by 9.8 m/s^2 downward acceleration the instant that it leaves your hand.
- thenoblesunfish 3y agoIs there a limit on speed? Can I attach a balloon, extremely long string, and parachute?
- pavel_lishin 3y agoWon't work: > "Cheating" by throwing a phone from a tall building typically returns an error message.[3] The app's calculations keep track of how long the phone takes to rise and fall, and an error message is displayed if the distance fallen exceeds the length of the ascent.[2]
- F3nd0 3y agoThat’s where the balloon comes in!
- pavel_lishin 3y agoTrue, but the balloon ascent won't look like a "throw" to the onboard sensors.
- jamal-kumar 3y agojust use a comically oversized balloon
- jyunwai 3y agoYou can construct a catapult and try to catch the phone with a blanket, as done by the previous record-holders in Brazil: https://youtube.com/watch?v=27oI0omSXdY&t=80 https://youtube.com/watch?v=27oI0omSXdY&t=80
- kevindamm 3y agoThere are federal regulations that prohibit operating a GPS at faster than xx mph speeds, basically to prohibit guided missiles, and this would kick in first (may even trigger an error state in the accelerometer or OS, I'm pretty sure). The app does compare distances neg-Y and pos-Y but I don't know if it checks the rate of ascent to be within some tolerance of throwing speed. You may have found the cheat code, if you can address the speed limit.
- atticora 3y ago> The app was immediately banned from the App Store This is the kind of infantilization that has kept me out of the walled garden. I no longer feel the need to be under a parent's supervision, and if I did I wouldn't pick a giant corporation for the job.
- naitgacem 3y agounfortunately the Google play store is not that much different. Although the motives are clearly very different, but they tend to wave "security of users" quite a lot to justify removing basic functionality like apps accessing internal storage....
- hiatus 3y agoExcept in this case the google play store _is_ different and still allows the app.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoNo, but the majority of android phones can be easily rooted and side-loaded with whatever pirated APK the user wants!
- JKCalhoun 3y agoSomehow I remember an app called "HangTime" that was also banned from the iOS App Store. Anyone done the app for a laptop?
- doubled112 3y agoFinally a new use for free fall sensors that used to signal the HDD to park.
- Nursie 3y agoThere was a an app called N900throw for the nokia N900 Linux phone back in … 2010? Fun little novelty :)
- mock-possum 3y agoThey really missed out on a perfectly good opportunity for “THROWkia” huh
- toast0 3y agoN900s aren't a Nokia 3360, but don't you still need to find a safe area to throw a Nokia phone, somewhere that won't be damaged by the phone? :)
- Nursie 3y agoI wish the N900 had been as sturdy as those old bricks... the charging port gave out after a couple of years otherwise I'd probably still have it!
- Nursie 3y agoTo set the record straight, as this is now the top Google result for “N900throw”… it was actually called N900fly. Just popped into my head…
- lawlessone 3y ago>Nonetheless, the mobile game opens with a warning that requests players to be aware of their surroundings, along with a legal disclaimer absolving the developer from any injuries or damages that may result from playing Standard Eula.
- imjonse 3y ago"Attendees were so enthusiastic with the idea that many began throwing their phones into the air without bothering to download the app."
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- woodrowbarlow 3y agotangential: i had an idea for a custom keyboard app... it would replace your keyboard with a limited set of scrabble tiles. tiles don't leave your board (and therefore can't be entered into text boxes) unless arranged to form a scrabble-legal word. tiles are replaced with new ones after successfully used. the keyboard would keep track of your running score, and if you switch keyboards, the score resets. never got around to making it though.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoThis is a great idea! How would you handle backspacing (assuming the user's intent legitimately changes)? You may need to allow "exemptions" of some kind to make it fun. If I need to use my phone for searching for a work related term, I'd like that not to impact the game. Perhaps the keyboard only activates in certain apps?
- FeteCommuniste 3y ago"The original idea was to have very expensive gadgets, which people in certain societies buy just to show off, and to get them to throw it." This is phrased like some kind of shot at consumerism but isn't it an even bigger flex to buy an expensive gadget and then immediately start throwing it dangerously high in the air?
- recursive 3y agoYes. You assume the app is a negative critique, and not an enthusiastic endorsement.
- FeteCommuniste 3y agoRight, but that quote from the creator of the app is phrased like his intention for it was the opposite of "showing off."
- gampleman 3y agoIt's a reductio ad absurdum style argument.
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- SebRollen 3y agoI've been tickled by the idea of a follow-up version, Send Me To Hell, where users instead throw their phones _downward_. High scores are awarded based on the maximum speed achieved as the phone hits the ground.
- justinclift 3y agoMaybe a variation based on who can get their phone the deepest underwater? ;)
- jeffrallen 3y agoI got so mad at a bureaucrat the other day I threw my felt hat down as hard as I could. My kids were impressed.
- the_sleaze9 3y agoThe moral of this story is, you can't trust the system! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ)
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoDid AppleCare cover a new one for you?
- js2 3y agoThat would be a variation of this classic carnival game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_striker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_striker
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoI agree, send them right where they belong.
- jackflintermann 3y agoI took a crack at recreating this in javascript once the necessary APIs made their way to mobile safari - https://highphone.app https://highphone.app if interested! (iPhones only, sorry)
- presson 3y agoLol this is awesome. I listed it on Store.app: https://store.app/highphone-app https://store.app/highphone-app
- cushychicken 3y agoHahahahaha I remember having an idea for an app like this during a very boring first job after college. Never actually took the time to make the thing, but I wished I had, because I remember seeing the announcement of Send Me To Heaven’s banning on The Verge and thinking it was quite funny.
- shapenamer 3y agoWikipedia is more obnoxious with the begging every time I look at it.
- engineer_22 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation Per the wikipedia article, Wikimedia Foundation's net assets exceed $250 million.
- allo37 3y agoHas someone tried this with a compressed gas powered cannon yet? Edit: Also, does the app check for the sudden deceleration spike when it hits the ground so you can't, say, add some kind of parachute?
- whynotkeithberg 3y agoIt says it checks whether the time going up is shorter than the time going down to keep people from throwing it off a building. So I have a feeling it wouldn't work... Especially since part of their intention is for people to break expensive phones they bought only to show off while trying to show off even more.
- sliken 3y agoDon't think you can calculate that based on acceleration, you are at zero g the entire time you are in flight. I suspect it's looking for the acceleration peak when you throw it up, as opposed to just dropping it from a high building.
- malingo 3y agoI had heard of this before.. >Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor. https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-google-s-android-gphone-launch https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-...
- blevinstein 3y agoCan anybody understand how it detects cheating (throwing your phone off a tall building)? Assuming it's just using the accelerometer to detect freefall, is there any way to distinguish ascent and descent? GPS is probably too inaccurate and too high-latency to assist here. Perhaps it can tell the difference between reaching terminal velocity and crashing into the ground, and it penalizes the former?
- MrDresden 3y agoFirst guess would be that there isn't a deceleration curve when the phone is dropped, like there would be when thrown up.
- HALtheWise 3y agoDropping a phone will result in an immediate change from normal 1g gravity to freefall. Throwing it will involve a brief spike of high-g acceleration in between.
- yreg 3y agoI think we need to wait for phones with air pressure sensors.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThere have been a few of those already, for at least a decade. IIRC, there was some weather app that crowdsourced readings from users with certain motorola phones and gave shockingly granular weather.
- ilyagr 3y agoGood question! I wonder if it can detect friction against air.