Innovative Android apps: These apps astonish with great functions
Apps are the innovative small building blocks of a smartphone operating system - we will show you a few particularly interesting and new applications for your Android smartphone or tablet.
Samsung Power Sleep: networked computing during bedtime
If we don't use our smartphone at night, "Samsung Power Sleep" instead turns it into part of a supercomputer via the Internet, which solves complicated calculations for scientists and thus actively contributes to the study of cancer or Alzheimer's.
- If the smartphone is connected to the socket at night, the smartphone receives 1MB large data packets, which contain, for example, protein sequences to be decrypted and are calculated by the powerful smartphone processors.
- At the same time, you can still use the Android app as an alarm clock: as soon as it rings, your smartphone stops the calculations and sends the data packet back to the University of Vienna. So you have the full power of your android at your disposal during the day.
SleepBot Tracker: sleep analysis with an Android app
Another application that works during our bedtime - but this time for our own good. With "SleepBot Tracker" you can analyze your sleeping habits.
- First you have to manually feed the app with data, then place the smartphone on the bed next to you while sleeping. The Android app records movements and noises at night.
- From this data, the app creates extensive statistics about your sleeping behavior and lets you better assess whether your lifestyle is healthy or not. SleepBot Tracker thus uses your android's sensors for the good of your health.
Google Goggles: The Google glasses find (almost) everything by photo
The search on the Internet does not always have to take place by keyword search: "Google Goggles" takes searching to a new level.
- After photographing pretty much any motif, this app tries to analyze the image and find suitable things on the Internet.
- This works quite reliably with books, logos, sights or even works of art. Additional functions are integrated - so even Sudokus can be solved with it. It remains to be seen which skills will be implemented by Google in the future.
Minuum Keyboard: Minimal Android keyboard for quick typing
"Minuum Keyboard" shows that even such basic functions as the smartphone keyboard are not safe from innovations: Here the ordinary full keyboard is combined into a single row of letters, which saves a lot of space on the smartphone screen.
- With the help of an extensive dictionary and precise word prediction, this keyboard is also accurate if you make a mistake - but above all, you can write quickly with this Android app. With some useful additional functions, "Minuum Keyboard" is really a future-oriented interpretation of the keyboard.
TableZombies AR Lite: Innovative zombie shooter with an unusual perspective
Augmented Reality is a big topic on smartphones - "TableZombies AR Lite" packs this into a fascinating game.
- If you hold the camera of your smartphone in the games app on the marker that is supplied and printed as a .pdf file, a three-dimensional, apocalyptic world is created in the viewfinder image, which you can see from a bird's eye view and by rotating the mobile phone from all perspectives can watch.
- You can then bombard the zombies appearing in the small "table world" with courage and change the angle and position by walking around the scene - this works amazingly well.
We have tested other interesting augmented reality applications for you in the following practical tip.