![]() AeroWeather is geared towards pilots and offers detailed information about conditions at any altitude. Accuweather does all of those things but is a little more user friendly.Ītmosphere - Like members of Starfleet, some people on Earth fly things. Weather - The iPhone comes with a built-in weather app, but The Weather Channel offers a better one that streams video of nearby storms, offers visual traffic reports and an animated Doppler radar map. Built both for surfers and fisherman, the app offers nautical forecasts based on NOAA data. Terraphone uses the phone's GPS technology to identify minerals, strata and fossil in any given location. Nature - Leafsnap, which debuted in May, uses the phone's camera to identify trees based on images of their leaves. Beyond that, apps like Google Earth provide three-dimensional views of the ground, and there's a host of other GPS-enabled apps that offer more complex map features like voice-navigation. There's also a built-in Compass app that does cardinal directions. The default Google-powered Maps app uses the phone's GPS capabilities to provide directions, check congestion, or see a satellite image of your location. Here's breakdown of the functions and their corresponding apps. It’s like when they thought up the competition they said ‘It’s not hard enough to make a tricorder. The iPhone does it all with one device (cue Steve Jobs keynote clip). Teams were challenged to build a real-life version of the tricorder, a device weighing five pounds or less that could continuously monitor five vital signs, diagnose 13 disease states, and be used not just by a medical professional but by anyone. Over the years different models added different capabilities, but most of them all featured a touchscreen and scanning capabilities. Starfleet issued tricorders with three basic scanning functions-geological (GEO), meteorological (MET) and biological (BIO)-to fill the crew members' various needs while flying in space and exploring alien planets. The tricorder is a fictional handheld do-everything device from Star Trek. Seriously, NASA is already sending them into space.īear with us while we geek out. Pair the rumors of a bigger more powerful iPhone 5 with some new apps that enable you to check your blood pressure and scan for melanoma, and we're just going to say it like it is: The iPhone has finally made the jump to become a full-fledged tricorder. ![]() ![]() French designer Antoine Breiux imagines, like everyone, that the next generation iPhone will sport curved edges, a bigger screen, a more powerful processor. The latest fake images of the iPhone 5 hit Gizmodo Wednesday afternoon. ![]() This article is from the archive of our partner. ![]()
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