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Walking survey of applications

Walking survey of applications

- Applications on computing devices enable us to do all kinds of great stuff. There's the usual things that people do, like word processing or web surfing, downloading and cataloging digital images and sound, there's a ton more you can do with computing devices and applications. Let's take a walk and check it out. I'm at the park with my smartphone and an application called Ingress, it's a world wide application where I find portals, I capture them, I defend them against other people who are trying to take them away from me with Star Wars like efficiency. Okay, it's geeky, I get that. But it's an app with a purpose. It helps me get my 10,000 steps in each day and not be bored in the process. It's also made by the people that made Pokemon Go, now that's geeky. Here's Michael using an app on his tablet to control this drone. He can take high resolution pictures and video up to 50 meters away. Cool, huh? Let's go…

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