The app used to control this intense ice-rider is a custom app written using MIT App Inventor, which has the ability to work with Bluetooth classic as well as BLE.

When App Inventor’s growth hit around 300,000 monthly active users the team decided to take stock by surveying the users to ask who they were and what they were using it for.

Jack Dorsey, the famous founder of Twitter, has revealed that he is developing a Bluetooth-based P2P chat app called ' BitChat .' At the time of writing, a development version for iPhone is available.

As MIT App Inventor debuts in open beta, the novice-friendly Real Studio development tool is offered for free to the unemployed.