Ryan talks to Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen of Snapzoom, a startup hoping to build an adjustable smartphone mount that allows you to take advantage of traditional optics like binoculars with your phone’s camera. Snapzoom works with most phones (from the iPhone to the giant Galaxy Note) and most scopes like binoculars and telescopes. After making it to the final rounds of Engadget’s “Insert Coin” competition, Snapzoom is planning a Kickstarter campaign to get production going.

Last night brought the first meeting of the Hacks/Hackers group in Hawaii. The focus? Digital journalism, social media, open data, APIs and open government. Among the presenters:

Misa Maruyama of the Hawaii Computer Human Interaction Lab invited attendees to participate in a study on social media’s role in political discourse. To participate, fill out this volunteer form.
Burt Lum of Bytemarks Cafe introduced the latest apps to come out of the Code for America engagement with the City & County of Honolulu. Check out the apps at the city’s Can-Do transparency site.
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No more getting caught in the rain waiting for the bus! No more scratching your head and wondering if you had missed the bus! No more guessing when the next bus will arrive. The DaBus app takes the guess work out of catching the bus on the island of Oahu. It uses the near real-time arrival information, courtesy of the Oahu Transit Services, to provide the best estimated time on when the next bus will arrive. This app also tracks the current location of the bus you are interested using …

As part of the City and County of Honolulu’s disaster preparedness effort, they’ve created this mobile application. Discover and share tsunami evacuation zone information for the island of Oahu. In the event of an emergency, time is of the essence. The Honolulu Tsunami Evacuation Zones app allows you to quickly and easily discover if you are in a tsunami evacuation zone. Search for your loved ones (via address) and share the app so they can do the same. Be prepared and download it today!
 
Key features include:

Displays tsunami related information for …

Moodscope is very easy to use and is based on a rating scale developed by the American Psychological Association. The program shows you a set of 20 cards ranging from Anger, Irritation, Nervous, Attentive, Active, etc. For each card you self rate yourself on a scale from 1-4. Moodscope then tabulates your score and gives you a rating from 1-100. You can then plot this score over time and see how it fluctuates. Obviously you can follow your progress to see if methods of stress reduction for example, are helping …