The Week contest: Apps for the real world

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

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.