Hopefully this guy has the "I'm Getting Arrested" app.
Plan on going to #OccupyWallStreet and getting arrested? There's an app for that! A Brooklyn programmer (abhorred by getting so much coverage in the "lame-stream" press, no doubt) has made a free android app that allows would-be arrestees to alert their friends. Beforehand, you can program in a message and recipients, who you can alert upon pushing a single button. The app is appropriately called "I'm Getting Arrested
." Once you're in jail, you may need help calming down (if you manage to smuggle in your phone). Look no farther than MyCalmBeat
, a smartphone app that measures your heart rate and helps you establish an optimal breathing rate, or "resonant frequency." It works by calculating the breathing rate at which your heart rate has the highest variability, which is correlated with how relaxed you feel. Stressed people, the app's programmers say
, have relatively constant rates of heart rate, which makes stress worse. Now all we're missing is an app that redistributes wealth and does our job for us.
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