PowerTutor
If there is anything that college students love, it is open source software. Android OS is open source, coupled with the fact that some of the best invention in recent history started in college campuses (Google for one), you have a recipe for some great product. Put android OS in college campuses, you can see where am going.
University of Michigan Ph.D. students Birjodh Tiwana and Lide Zhang under th supervision of two instructors design a neat power monitoring app called PowerTutor. This app shows you the power consumption of the apps and processes running on your android phone in nice and easy to understand graph. Android phone users will find this app useful, but developers will likely find it more compelling. It should be very useful in helping them study and maximizing the power efficiency of apps during development. For more details on the app go to powertutor.org
