A group of high-school students in Tainan has designed a series of mobile applications to be released from next month, including one that helps people find public restrooms.
After taking National Tainan Second Senior High School’s first-ever course on international information technology for a semester, the 35 students together designed 11 mobile apps aimed at solving everyday problems, instructor Tu Yi-lang (涂益郎) said on Thursday.
The restroom app was designed by first-year students Wu Hsuan-ta (吳軒達), Chuang Tzu-ching (莊子靚), Hou Yi-fan (侯怡帆) and Wu Yu-jen (吳育任).
Photo: Liu Wan-chun, Taipei Times
For now, it helps locate public restrooms in the vicinity of nine popular tourist attractions, including the Chihkan Tower (赤崁樓), Hayashi Department Store (林百貨), Tainan Art Museum, Guohua Street (國華街) and Fujhong Street (府中街).
The app also tells users whether a restroom has toilet paper and provides a cleanliness rating.
Another app, designed by Chien Jui-kuan (簡睿寬), Wang Cheng-yang (王政揚) and Hsiao Yi-ping (蕭佾平), helps users track their daily calorie intake and control their diets based on their height, weight, age, exercise patterns and other factors.
Chien, Wang and Hsiao said that they are working on making their app more sophisticated and would be entering it into a competition.
The other apps include one that aims to tackle cellphone addiction, and one that locates beverage chains and themed restaurants near school campuses, Tu said.
The apps would be made available on Google Play, he added.
DEEPER REVIEW: After receiving 19 hospital reports of suspected food poisoning, the Taipei Department of Health applied for an epidemiological investigation A buffet restaurant in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) is to be fined NT$3 million (US$91,233) after it remained opened despite an order to suspend operations following reports that 32 people had been treated for suspected food poisoning, the Taipei Department of Health said yesterday. The health department said it on Tuesday received reports from hospitals of people who had suspected food poisoning symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and diarrhea, after they ate at an INPARADISE (饗饗) branch in Breeze Xinyi on Sunday and Monday. As more than six people who ate at the restaurant sought medical treatment, the department ordered the
A strong continental cold air mass and abundant moisture bringing snow to mountains 3,000m and higher over the past few days are a reminder that more than 60 years ago Taiwan had an outdoor ski resort that gradually disappeared in part due to climate change. On Oct. 24, 2021, the National Development Council posted a series of photographs on Facebook recounting the days when Taiwan had a ski resort on Hehuanshan (合歡山) in Nantou County. More than 60 years ago, when developing a branch of the Central Cross-Island Highway, the government discovered that Hehuanshan, with an elevation of more than 3,100m,
Taiwan’s population last year shrank further and births continued to decline to a yearly low, the Ministry of the Interior announced today. The ministry published the 2024 population demographics statistics, highlighting record lows in births and bringing attention to Taiwan’s aging population. The nation’s population last year stood at 23,400,220, a decrease of 20,222 individuals compared to 2023. Last year, there were 134,856 births, representing a crude birth rate of 5.76 per 1,000 people, a slight decline from 2023’s 135,571 births and 5.81 crude birth rate. This decrease of 715 births resulted in a new record low per the ministry’s data. Since 2016, which saw
SECURITY: To protect the nation’s Internet cables, the navy should use buoys marking waters within 50m of them as a restricted zone, a former navy squadron commander said A Chinese cargo ship repeatedly intruded into Taiwan’s contiguous and sovereign waters for three months before allegedly damaging an undersea Internet cable off Kaohsiung, a Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) investigation revealed. Using publicly available information, the Liberty Times was able to reconstruct the Shunxing-39’s movements near Taiwan since Double Ten National Day last year. Taiwanese officials did not respond to the freighter’s intrusions until Friday last week, when the ship, registered in Cameroon and Tanzania, turned off its automatic identification system shortly before damage was inflicted to a key cable linking Taiwan to the rest of
RSS