Gadgetory

imagine an app where you tap the screen and an arrow appears but the magic of the app is that you don't know if the arrow is going to point left or right check out this video by tdawg II that my friends is the TSA s new randomizer app that it supposedly paid forty seven thousand four hundred dollars for the purpose of the app is to tell you which security lane to go to so you walk up to the TSA agent he or she taps the screen and an arrow appears if you think that sounds like something you code in a group project for coding 101 you're not alone youtube user Chris pacia uploaded a video last night showing him code this very app in about ten minutes he notes that since he usually charges about hundred dollars per hour for coding the TSA overpaid for its app by about 47,000 383 dollars that was designed by IBM which sold it to the TSA as part of a project totaling 1.4 million dollars that's according to developer Kevin Burke who filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how much app actually cost at this point it's unclear what the rest of the money was used for but it's possible that the purchase of tablets and device training was a part of the deal