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Just few days ago we were in the middle of Mobile World Congress 2013, the world's largest exhibition and conference for the mobile industry thanks to Buongiorno Competition.

We had a lot of fun and met brilliant people and now we want to share with you some ideas we found there that really stroke us. Here you are: - Firefox OS, an open platform that breaks barrier between web and mobile apps. We love this kind of projects because it allow to increase mobile experience! - PayPal Here, a new Pay Pal product that makes simple for cash-based businesses in countries that use Chip and PIN debit and credit cards to take and make digital payments. So easy, so smart :) - Samsung HomeSync, a media centre, network storage solution and files hub all in one single product. Pretty cool, isn't it?

Last but not least we have a big announce for you: together with our friends of WhyMca we took part to WipJam competition and we won the second prize (yeah, Fungo Studios Team rules).

Recently we attended an Italian hacking competition named WhyMCA - Hack Reality. This kind of event (also known as "hackaton") requires the participants to develop a working system within a given time span (8 hours in this case) and following a predefined topic. The "Hack Reality" was about the interaction between mobile technologies and the real world.

A collection of tasty tools were offered to let our creativity explode, such as Wikitude ARchitect, LEGO MINDSTORMS, Arduino/ADK, Microsoft Kinect, and so on.

There were four of us: me (Sebastiano), Dario, Stefano and Nicola, who was in Germany and therefore remotely joined the competition via Skype.

We called our project "Anti Theft Social System" (ATSS). As the name suggests, it's a an anti-theft system with a social component. Here's how it works.

We connected a motion sensor to a Nexus S device through the Arduino platform and we developed a simple Android application which controlled the aforementioned sensor. The application (i.e. the entire system) could either be activated/deactivated via 4-digit PIN code or via NFC tag. A movement within the sensor's range triggers the application which activates the phone's camera: while the movement persists, the camera keeps taking pictures of the scene. When either the movement stops or a timeout occurs, the application sends the captured pictures to our server, where they are assembled in a GIF animation. The server also triggers two more services: an alert text message ("Theft warning!") is sent to a set of predefined mobile numbers and a call with a pre-recorded audio message is performed to other predefined numbers (e.g. neighbours). The SMSs and phone calls were performed by means of the Tropo API.

The GIF image of the thief is shared on the owner's Twitter account. A PUSH notification is essentially sent to the victim's iOS device, where a simple application will then display the image sequence of the robber.

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Our opponent's ideas were mostly valid and some of them were really brilliant..

But in the end we won the first prize! So here's a picture of us at the end of the day, very tired and very satisfied :D

It's great to be here at WhyMCA 2011, I'd like to thanks @rainbowbreeze for this opportunity and all the hackers present here running for the Hackathon.