Apps in space: Design a smartwatch app for NASA and maybe win money

NASA wants you to design a smartwatch app for astronauts in space.

The NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) is asking members of the public with programing skills to help design a smartwatch app that will assist astronauts living and working in space.

"The challenge is to design the general user interface for smart watch applications for use on the International Space Station," NTL wrote in the competition description on Freelancer.com.

NTL is asking people participating in the contest to use the Samsung Gear 2 as a "hardware reference" for the design, and the app should have the ability to perform a variety of functions, streamlining an astronaut's daily life. Read more...