NASA needs help designing a smartwatch app for astronauts in space

NASA needs you! Unfortunately not to fly to space, but rather 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,” NASA wrote in the competition description.

The competition asks entrants to use the Samsung Gear 2 as a “hardware reference” for the design, and outlines that the app should have the ability to perform a variety of functions, streamlining an astronaut’s daily life. The smartwatch app should be built to display a timeline of current, past and future tasks.

The smartwatch app should also have a caution/warning application, a timer and a communication status application that “will display whether or not the vehicle is currently able to communicate with the ground through either voice/video,” NTL said. All these functions should be included in a single app.

The contest comes with a $1,500 prize, and the competition ends September 9.