On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:30:41 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?


Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

I'd like an ap to pour a beer for me.
Though I did IT tech work for a living, I don't know any of this new
stuff. Saw one of these high tech comm "devices" on the kitchen table
the other day. One of my kids had laid it down there.
I picked it up and looked at it briefly, but never figured out what if
was for, or even how to turn it on.
It was rectangle shaped and made of a strange shiny metal.
About 2 1/2" x 4 1/2' x 1/2"
Looked like it had a window on it, but hard to tell.
I felt like one of the "savages" in some Star Trek episode that finds
a phaser or something that Kirk dropped.
I was afraid to get it going. Who knows what would happen?
So I put it down and had a beer instead. Made me feel modern.
Not in a square glass though.
Saw them in Star Trek on a table.
A square glass is just stupid. Anybody who ever drank out of a square
kerosene can knows that.

--Vic