Battle of Minds
Co-founded by IIIT-Hyderabad alumnus Jairaj Bhattacharya, ConveGenius, is an Indo-Singapore start-up, which seeks to make education fun and affordable. The company has just launched a free mobile game app — Battle of Minds — for the Android users. It is a real-time multi-player contest platform where users can engage, interact, play and learn by competing against each other.
It is a mixture of trivia, educational content, news, and skill-based games. The users derive twin benefits — learning via playing and the tokens they earn as they win, can then be redeemed for cash vouchers and goodies from leading brands like Flipkart, Freecharge, Jabong, Bookmyshow, Dominos, Vista Print etc.The idea is “the more you learn, the more you redeem!”
Build your own tablet PC
Stumped for a college term project? You can change that with the popular students’ platform, the Raspberry Pi wallet computer into a Tablet PC! Online electronic retailers Element14, have just launched the 7” touchscreen display for the Raspberry Pi, enabling users to turn their Pi into a tablet or an infotainment system. The screen can also be used to make ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices with a visual display.
The screen size is 155 mm x 86 mm and screen resolution is 800x480 pixels. Get started by downloading and installing the latest version of Raspbian Operating System and install all of the latest drivers and software to support the touch screen display. It’s available for Rs 6,000 from Element14.com. The Rasberry Pi2 costs around Rs 3,000.
Chat and play
Vaakhyam Technologies, Bengaluru, has launched Jalpah, a free one-on-one chat and play app which combines messaging and gaming.While chatting with friends you can invite them for a choice of 3 board games — Tic-Tac-Toe, Snakes & Ladders and 2 math (simple or higher math) challenges. You can play without using a phone number or email address. No data is stored in the server. All personal data is stored in the user’s phone itself. Jalpah can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
