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>"I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch it go to pieces and not even get a high score."

I'd think that would defeat the purpose of the "...and catch it!" step.

If anything, I'd want such an app to record video or perhaps fire the camera for a still the peak. I'm thinking that would a be huge plus to the idiotic entertainment potential, like a less inane Vine and a slight deterrent from the inevitable result spoofing.



I agree with your idea of the camera firing...but you think this could be less inane than Vine...?


There is a camera design that uses exactly this method, unfortunately patented:

http://www.slashgear.com/squinto-throwable-ball-camera-grant...

Prior art, unfortunately also attempting a patent is at:

http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera


Unless your phone includes "a substantially spherical housing suitable for being projected into an airborne trajectory", I think you're in the clear.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...




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