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Telecomasia has compiled some of the most interesting mobile apps they've come across in the last couple of years, showcasing some of the more imaginative mobile apps spotted "in the wild" (so to speak), and to provide a sneak peek at what various R&D boffins think will define apps development in the future.
1. The Lie/Love detector
The "Truthful Calls" service uses a voice analysis system by Israeli company Nemesysco that functions as an emotion detector, assessing the level of honesty of the person you're calling.
2. Call yourself in the future
From Web services company CDyne, a Web-based app that allows you to call yourself in the future. Really!
3. Ghost detector
TV show tie-ins are becoming a frequent excuse for mobile apps. Mobile content development company Wiretown (started, appropriately, by two men with TV broadcasting backgrounds) have developed a paranormal detector for cellphones.
4. Car alarm
With the car theft rate in New Zealand approaching 36,000 a year, incumbent operator Telecom New Zealand and Navman New Zealand have developed a car alarm system that relies on mobile tech to let you know when someone's making off with your car.
5. Spy phones
An ordinary-looking mobile phone that actually doubles as an eavesdropping device.
6. Halal verification service
An SMS-based service in Malaysia that allows Muslims to conform the halal status (which is to say "permissible" under Islamic law) of products.
7. Liquid wallpaper
Technically more of a user-interface feature than an app, but still innovative: the N702iS handset (developed by NEC, NTT DoCoMo and Japanese design company Nendo) comes with sensor-driven wallpaper that makes the screen look like a glass of liquid.
8. Send SMS messages and emoticons to your clothes
Uranium-Jeans has a line of "interactive clothing" that comes with embedded flexible micro screens that display images and scrolling text messages that can either be downloaded from Uranium's Web site or sent by SMS.
9. Camera dictionary
Camera Dictionary is a software app that allows users to scan English words using their camera phones and translate them to Japanese.
10. Mobile breathalyzer
Not sure if you or your driver has had one too many martinis? Use your mobile phone to check his or her alcohol level via a breath analyzer connected to the handset.
And a favortie future ap:
Ghost in the cell
Professor Kim Jong-hwan of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology wants to take the "genie in a bottle" concept and bring it to the mobile phone in the form of a software robot.
The "robot" would be something like a 3D avatar that would adjust itself to the characteristics of the cell phone owner.
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TERRORSTORM[ This Message was edited by: axxxr on 2006-10-27 16:54 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-27 16:48:54
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You might wanna sort out the discription for no. 4....
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Posted: 2006-10-27 17:51:56
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sorted....thanks for pointing that out.
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Posted: 2006-10-27 17:54:40
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No problemo...
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Posted: 2006-10-27 19:34:51
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Got Number 7 on my 360 thanks to the Live Vision Camera, awesome device, the effect is cool
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Posted: 2006-10-27 19:42:20
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