// ThrowMeApp, would you risk your phone to get aerial pictures?
Do you trust your hand-eye coordination enough to throw your Android smartphone into the air? If so, you can now use it for automated camera toss photography. ThrowMeApp is a new app created by programmer Anton Beitler, a student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Just like the camera toss feature that Nikon is apparently developing, ThrowMeApp simplifies the camera throw process by making all the important decisions for you: it attempts to trigger your phone’s shutter as close to the peak of the trajectory as possible, and while the phone’s camera is pointed downward.
It does this by using the accelerometer in your phone to (1) estimate the velocity of your phone, and (2) calculate the average fall time over the previous 5 camera tosses. All that’s left for you to place the phone flat in your hand, tap the screen, and throw it into the air (and catch it once it comes back down, of course).









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