I got yer future right here!

[andrewducker]

So, I have a hand held device that allows me instantaneous access to the complete knowledge of mankind wherever I happen to be.

But it's not quite as good as star trek, because whilst I have a communicator, I don't have tricorder.

Except, yesterday I downloaded Instant Heart Rate, which is the cleverest thing I've bumped into this week.

It turns the flash on the phone to constant full power, while you place your finger over the camera lens. This means that the camera basically transmits the colour pink.

Except - and this is the clever bit - the shade of pink changes whenever your heart beats. And so it can tell (given a couple of seconds) what my pulse is. Genius!

(And free on Android, despite being $2 on iPhone. No idea why.)

Comments

[andrewducker]

68, in case you were wondering :->

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

So were you lying awake in bed, panicking because your pulse rate might be too fast or too slow? Now I'm worried that since I have neither an iphone or an android phone, I might DIE because of heart-explodey. :-(

In my experience the internet is a great tricorder - it's really good at helping people diagnose themselves with all sorts of rare diseases and socially useful personality disorders. :-p

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

May I friendulate you on the basis of this comment?

[andrewducker]

He doesn't actually post, really, anything any more.

[zz]

When I was little I used to worry if earth'd run out of air while I was asleep, and try to breathe shallowly. And that if i was in the middle of an open space with nothing to hold onto, gravity might stop working and I'd fall upwards off the world. :>

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You had a great career ahead of you as Arthur C Clarke :)

[andrewducker]

I hadn't actually made it to bed before I wrote that post. Had been hanging up washing when I remembered I wanted to post about it.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. It's a hypochondriac's charter.

[andrewducker]

In my case, the opposite.

"Gah, can't sleep, can hear my heart beat."
*checks phone*
"No, completely normal, at lower end of resting heart beat range."

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

iPhone apps make more money than Android apps, last I heard.

[andrewducker]

I heard that too. Not helped that Google have been rubbish about rolling out the ability to pay to different countries. But also probably not helped by iPhone being aimed at the top end of the market, while Android covers less expensive phones as well, leading to a customer base with less spending money in total.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

My favourite iphone app is still Sleep Cycle! I also have WebNMD which is just MADE for hypocondriacs!! OMG my left knee feels ticklish, I shall inut that to WebMD which will instantly tell me if I am going to self combust at my desk!

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Ooops WebMD

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

and I am a sucker for buying the 59p apps on iTunes - because 'It's only 59p' anything above £2.99 requires deep serious consideration!

[andrewducker]

I'm happy to spend up to 99p on Android Market without thinking about it.

Or a couple of quid for genuinely useful things.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of the *medical* tricorder... :p

[nameandnature]

You mean you don't have this?

[andrewducker]

I do now. That's awesome!