NPR: As the computing power of cell phones increases, more and more sophisticated mobile apps are being developed for the mental health field. They’re seen as a way to bridge periodic therapy sessions — a sort of 24-7 mobile therapist that can help with everything from quitting smoking to treating anxiety to detecting relapses in psychotic disorders. These mobile technologies […]
Mobile Mental Therapy
Easy Sonar Ruler
TrendCentral: Available for just 99 cents from iTunes, Laan Labs’ Sonar Ruler may be the answer to our laser measuring dreams. The app emits sound waves, from the iPhone’s speaker, which then bounce off wherever you point it back to the phone, finally offering a measurement which can be set in feet, inches, or meters. Should you download it, you […]
Priceless Picks from Everybody
Mastercard has developed a Priceless Picks app, which allows users to share their favorite places and deals, which are then displayed on an interactive map for other users to browse. The world is full of priceless things. The “Priceless Picks” application for the iPhone and iPod Touch helps you share your favorite places and amazing deals with the world, and […]
The Coke Phone
TrendBlog: Chinese designer Daizi Zheng recently created a concept mobile phone that runs off of Coca-Cola. The Chinese ex-pat, who new resides in London, designed the phone as a proof of concept for Nokia. It uses the soda’s sugar to create a “bio battery” that powers the phone for potentially three to four times longer than a traditional lithium battery. […]
Ordering Take-out
The idea of take-out has taken off. The emergent trend of buying online, picking-up in-store (‘bopi’ for these purposes) was listed as eMarketer’s #7 Key Online Predictions for 2008 and NearbyNow’s #4. While seemingly inherent that companies would diversify their distribution efforts, many are still 1-pronged. Yet with benefits like bigger shopping carts (27% of bopi customers make additional purchases […]
Read ‘News Express’ On Your Mobile
T-Mobile UK has introduced a new mobile newspaper service: News Express, which is delivered directly to customers’ mobile phones. News Express consists of four channels which carry a series of articles covering news, sports, weather and entertainment. There are two daily editions, one published at 8am and the other at 5pm, with additional ad-hoc breaking news updates throughout the day. […]
Ask and Ye Shall Receive
Whenever you need to know something, just SMS the Any Question Answered (AQA) service on 63336. Be it the times of last trains, weather reports for the London marathon, shirt numbers of Manchester United players, recommendations for birthday celebrations, next plane to New York, best odds offered in a horse race, details of film showing times, or which restaurant to […]