The Week contest: Apps for the real world
What would an app that encourages millennials to put down their phones be called?
Last week’s question: The average 18-to-24-year-old American checks his or her smartphone 53 times a day, according to a new study. Come up with the title of an app that would encourage Millennials to put down their phones and engage with the real world.
RESULTS:
THE WINNER: The Selfie Taser
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Clive Nickerson, Cranston, R.I.
SECOND PLACE: Biometric Toe Print Cell Entry App
Jill Long, Bluffton, S.C.
THIRD PLACE: Dead Battery App
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Lane Willingham, Brentwood, Tenn.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
iContact
Andrew Baker, Allentown, Pa.
Actual Angry Birds
Andrew Tuite, Chicago
Hey, Another Year Just Passed!
Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, Colo.
Words With Real People
Ted Barker, Northridge, Calif.
Call from: Mom
Kurt Kuehne, Madison, Wis.
You’ve Been Drafted
Roy Duggan, Memphis
Real-Time with Mom
Sarah Cox, Irvington, N.Y.
Facelook
Linda Crider, Prescott, Ariz.
Calculator of Accelerated Morbidity of Smartphone Users
Tom Skopal, Bethlehem, Pa.
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