Send Me to Heaven uses your phone's accelerometer to measure how high you've thrown it. There are leaderboards.
"Some users reported scores as high as 40 meters (131 feet), which Svarovsky discovered was the result of players firing their phones into the air with slingshots."
@mogwai_poet I'm so glad someone has done this. Years ago I used the same principle to track air time while snowboarding and report back to me via voice, but it was cumbersome and flakey so I kinda just forgot about it. This is much cooler!
@Farbs I do like the idea of a robot voice in your coat pocket critiquing your technique though
@mogwai_poet I'm trying very hard to not get nerdsniped by thinking up ways to get even higher records. Parachutes & trebuchets?
@foone @mogwai_poet Strap it to a model rocket
@foone @mogwai_poet @jonty
Nah, the challenge shouldn't be to beat the record. The challenge should be to beat the record without destroying the phone
@foone @mogwai_poet What a time to be alive
@foone Whatever you do it needs to mimic the acceleration curve of a simple toss or the app won't recognize it as a valid throw.
@mogwai_poet
How did the phone not break upon landing?
@phi1997 Maybe it transmitted the high score just in time
@mogwai_poet
That old thing is still going around? I think it must have been the brainchild of someone who sells phone repairs.