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WIMy, a gadget to help you find your things
USB-C is also coming to Android devices
Online Trivia Game ‘Givling’ Aims to Solve Student Debt Crisis

WIMy, a gadget to help you find your things

Posted: 12 Mar 2015 12:57 PM PDT

Few things are as exasperating as losing keys or forgetting where your car is at, but those are exactly the type of issues WIMy addresses – by telling you where exactly something is thanks to its keychain and phone app.

The Spanish team at AppKideak came up with a nice little concept, where using a small tracker shaped like a puzzle piece is used to keep track of things, via a phone app – and then, the app displays both the distance from the object along with the direction the object was at. This works both with or without network coverage, and if something ever happened to the tracker itself, WIMy will point out the last place it ever was at.

WIMy has a range of 50 to 60 meters, but it can use other WIMy users as rely points for increased distance and community work: if someone walks by our WIMy, the app will learn the location and point us towards it. WIMy also works the other way around, and it is actually possible to use the piece to track your phone itself, in case you lost that too.

The team will make the app available for iPhone 4S and above, and Android 4.4 and above. And while the project is merely at the crowdfunding stage at Indiegogo, it’s already showing a lot of promise. We wish them luck, it’s a great concept after all.

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USB-C is also coming to Android devices

Posted: 12 Mar 2015 08:40 AM PDT

USB-C is coming to stay, and the next group to embrace it might be the creators of Android devices around the globe.

The new standard for USB, USB-C has been just announced and is already featured in two upcoming devices (namely, the new MacBook and Google’s next Chromebook Pixel), but that is only the beginning. The new standard, turns out, might end up showing up in many more devices all along 2015, with Android OS running phones being chief among them.

USB-C has many advantages over traditional USB, the main one being multi-device charging and high speed data transfer with just one cable. It is small enough so it can be featured in the latest smartphones, but powerful enough so it will be able to charge a plethora of devices, even computers, all featuring a symmetrical port so users don’t have to go around flipping their cables. The perks are pretty obvious, and now based on the video Google created to explain the standard, we can sort of expect to see it in the next Nexus device Google creates – check around the end of the video.

Source: Droid Life

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Online Trivia Game ‘Givling’ Aims to Solve Student Debt Crisis

Posted: 12 Mar 2015 06:00 AM PDT

As higher education becomes an expensive luxury for those in the United States, online trivia game Givling looks to give students a way to pay off their debts.

When students are in school, they are told the same thing, ‘go to college, get a degree and get a higher paying job afterwards’ but how can we expect students to follow that path of higher education when it’s becoming increasingly expensive to do so? According to estimates, many students across the globe will still be paying off their student loans when they’re in their 40s and 50s and 85% of students will never pay off their debts at all.

Considering how important higher education is when it comes to the workplace, these figures are absolutely astounding. It’s unfair that students should have to pay so much just for the simple privilege of learning and so a new online trivia game called Givling aims to ease the load of student debt, by paying students for what they know,

How Givling works is that each participant pays 50 cents to take part in a true or false trivia game, answering questions about a range of topics. You get three strikes and getting three wrong answers means you’re out but if you succeed then you can carry on going until you’ve used them all up.

That’s simple enough to understand, right? Things get a bit more complicated when you hear how the cash is paid out. Every day players are randomly put into teams of three and then there’s a cash payout for the team that scored the highest. Obvious issues here are ‘what if I get randomly put in a team with people who don’t know anything’ but this does at least stop people from teaming up and gaming the system.

Aside from these smaller cash payouts, Givling also operates a scheme that can make its users millionaires. When Givling raises $10 million, half of that is split between two high scoring teams whilst the other half solves the debt of those in the ‘Giving’ queues, which is a funding queue that people can join via open calls on the Givling Facebook page, whether they’re a Givling player or not.

Admittedly, since the level of student debt currently stands at $1.2 trillion it’s unlikely that Givling is going to eradicate the student debt crisis entirely, but it’s certainly a worthy attempt

Source: Givling

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