Juanjo Coello, Eng Outreach Committee
The 22nd edition of our HMU has just finished with two winning projects from our Madrid and Barcelona offices. We like creating innovative products that provide added value to our Tuenti Móvil clients and that are completely innovative within the Spanish MVNO market. That’s why this edition was centered on the telco of the future on the product side, and on internal tools and other tech ideas on the geek side.
Tuenti engineers began preparing their projects yesterday at about 17:00 in order to have them finished today at the same time. As always, there was a dinner in the office, naps, and a lot of work to do. You can see how hard our engineers work in this video from the last edition as they work non-stop for 24 hours.
Winners are chosen by votes cast by the whole Tuenti team. In the Product category, the winner was Victor Pimentel, for Telco of the Future. His project consisted in looking toward the telco of the future through the eyes of the past, the 19th century, to be exact. It included features from that era.
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On the other hand, the geek vote, chosen by other participants in this edition of the HMO, went to Pebble, a project by Iván Nikolic, Ignacio de Soto, Miguel Ros, Albert Fernández and Fernando Cejas. This project was based on the integration of Pebble smartwatches with mobile applications. As a demo, they implemented the popular game Pong, making use of each player’s watch accelerometer to move the ball and share information among watches to calculate the position of the ball, among other things. Games can also be started from Tuenti chat.
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The 22nd edition of our HMU has just finished with two winning projects from our Madrid and Barcelona offices. We like creating innovative products that provide added value to our Tuenti Móvil clients and that are completely innovative within the Spanish MVNO market. That’s why this edition was centered on the telco of the future on the product side, and on internal tools and other tech ideas on the geek side.
Tuenti engineers began preparing their projects yesterday at about 17:00 in order to have them finished today at the same time. As always, there was a dinner in the office, naps, and a lot of work to do. You can see how hard our engineers work in this video from the last edition as they work non-stop for 24 hours.
Winners are chosen by votes cast by the whole Tuenti team. In the Product category, the winner was Victor Pimentel, for Telco of the Future. His project consisted in looking toward the telco of the future through the eyes of the past, the 19th century, to be exact. It included features from that era.
On the other hand, the geek vote, chosen by other participants in this edition of the HMO, went to Pebble, a project by Iván Nikolic, Ignacio de Soto, Miguel Ros, Albert Fernández and Fernando Cejas. This project was based on the integration of Pebble smartwatches with mobile applications. As a demo, they implemented the popular game Pong, making use of each player’s watch accelerometer to move the ball and share information among watches to calculate the position of the ball, among other things. Games can also be started from Tuenti chat.
