Augmented reality or the ability to digitally overlay content in real-time, has finally come to the consumer realm. Most will know augmented reality from sporting events where logos, field lines and info boxes are digitally overlaid. Augmented reality has many unexplored applications and will eventually become ubiquitous like GPS. This first to the iPhone application called “Nearest Tube” allows users to see subway tunnels and station entrances combined with their current perspective in one virtual yet real view. Utilizing the iPhone 3GS digital compass and GPS receiver, Nearest Tube from AcrossAir provides a never before seen perspective of our world.
“When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons.” Nearest Tube [acrossair.com].
The Decibel iPhone 3G application from Gadget Frontier transforms your iPhone into a portable decibel meter. Decibel features an analog meter and digital display with peak, average and max in one clean interface. Having used Decibel it appears to be very accurate (probably due do the excellent microphone in the iPhone 3G). The Gadget Frontier website states:
“Even though we have tested Decibel with professional grade equipment with very good results, this application is for recreational use only. iPhone 3G is recommended since it has a better performing microphone than the first generation iPhone.”
Decibel was featured in the BBC show Panorama – The World’s longest running investigative TV show on April 20! The host Quentin Letts use Decibel on his iPhone to measure decibel levels in regards to UK’s health and safety regulations. Check it out on BBC (10 minutes into the show)!
Available now from the iTunes App Store for ¢.99, it is an excellent backup for any audio professional in the field and certainly more than adequate for the rest of us. View the video review by thedigitallifestyle.tv below.
Note that the iPod Touch doesn’t have a built in microphone. To use Decibel with the iPod Touch will require an iPhone headset or plug-in microphone.
The Decibel App for the iPhone and iPhone 3G (Recommended) is available in Paid Version for (¢.99) from the App Store.
About the iPhone
Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone. Courtesy, Apple.com
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WPtouch from Brave New Code turns your WordPress blog into a tailored web application for the iPhone 3G. Simply install the WPtouch plugin for WordPress, set your options and your blog is transformed. See before and after below.
“With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.
The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your iPhone and iPod touch visitors without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.
The theme also includes the ability for your visitors to easily switch between the WPtouch view and your site’s regular theme.” WPtouch, wordpress.org
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