Ah sure these days there's an App for....

**Lionel Ritchie** · 19/01/2011, 2:53 PM

...writing Snow Patrol songs.

(ball's rolling!)

**thischarmingman** · 19/01/2011, 3:11 PM

There was actually an app launched last week that will wake you up earlier if there's delays on your tube line so you can get in to work on time.

**John83** · 19/01/2011, 3:14 PM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

There was actually an app launched last week that will wake you up earlier if there's delays on your tube line so you can get in to work on time.

It took about four times as many lines of code as an app to drive the trains would. Unions, eh?

**pineapple stu** · 19/01/2011, 3:16 PM

There's a defib app being developed at the Young Scientists, I think (I don't know how successful YS projects generally are).

So someone collapses with a cardiac arrest, just slap an iPhone on them and shock them back to life.

**John83** · 19/01/2011, 3:23 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

There's a defib app being developed at the Young Scientists, I think (I don't know how successful YS projects generally are).

So someone collapses with a cardiac arrest, just slap an iPhone on them and shock them back to life.

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought an iphone would have the necessary juice for that. Current defibrillators give a pretty hefty jolt - high voltage and current in a short pulse.

**dahamsta** · 19/01/2011, 3:25 PM

Nah, the app just shows the ridiculous poseur margin Apple charges on their customers. That'll jolt anyone back to life.

**pineapple stu** · 19/01/2011, 3:28 PM

Here's the story; it seems the defib hooks up to the iPhone, which is different, and possibly not all that necessary as anything other than your bogstandard defib has an ECG screen which relays the key data anyway. Plus, of course, you'd have to be able to read and understand the data.

So in conclusion, I'm not actually sure what it is exactly.

**John83** · 19/01/2011, 3:30 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Here's the story; it seems the defib hooks up to the iPhone, which is different, and possibly not all that necessary as anything other than your bogstandard defib has an ECG screen which relays the key data anyway. Plus, of course, you'd have to be able to read and understand the data.

So in conclusion, I'm not actually sure what it is exactly.

That sounds rather more like the Young Scientists I know.

**Seagull** · 19/01/2011, 4:43 PM

A game designed by a 14-year-old boy has topped the iTunes worldwide free app charts, ahead of the likes of Facebook and Skype.

Robert Nay, from Utah in the USA, created Bubble Ball, a "physics puzzle game" for Apple devices.

He learned how to code the game from a library book, after a friend's dad suggested he try to make an app.
Bubble Ball The game is based around trying to get a bubble into a goal

On Wednesday (19 January), Bubble Ball had been downloaded two million times, according to Robert's figures.

It was also ahead of the free version of hit game Angry Birds.

"I think it's pretty cool because I never thought my game would do that well," Robert told ABC News.

"My friend's dad suggested I try making an iPhone app and I thought, 'Why not, that'd be pretty cool,' so I checked out a book from the library.

"When I saw that it was number one for the free apps, I was astonished."

He also says he plans to make more games, but his next project is "a secret".