iPhone’s recent, well deserved publicity related to its incredible applications has yet again established the ‘must have’ status of this phone. Here are just a few of the novel and unique ways the iPhone has been put to use.
iPhone used to Paint the June Cover of New Yorker
Artist Jorge Colombo used the $4.99 application Brushes to paint the cover of the June issue of New Yorker. The scene depicts a crowd hanging around a hot dog stand on 42nd Street in New York City. According to an article in the New York Times, the thing that appealed the most to Colombo was the anonymity of painting on an iPhone.
“Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing,” Mr. Colombo said. “In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages.”
See the video on how the cover took shape.
iPhone can Help Autistic Children
According to a story published in USA Today, the iPhone helped an autistic child communicate with his parents after years of using more conventional methods. Seven year old JW, like many autistic children, did not speak at all. His parents were considering the purchase of an expensive text-to-speech device when a teacher told them about a new application developed for the iPhone and iPod. Leslie. JW’s mother, purchased an iPod Touch and downloaded the very affordable application, Proloquo2Go, from iTunes.
Within a month JW was using his Touch to communicate with people and issue voice commands to his service dog, Roscoe. Proloquo2Go assists people with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, ALS and patients who have lost speech capabilities due to sever medical conditions. According to Leslie:
“He’s actually communicating,” she says. “It’s nice to see what’s going on in his head.”
Among the revelations of the past month: She now knows JW’s favorite restaurant. “I get to spend at least every other day at the Chinese buffet.”
iPhone replaces Attendance Register in a Japanese University
In an attempt to improve attendance, a Japanese University is giving hundreds of free iPhones to its first and second year students as part of an ongoing experiment. The iPhones come with GPS trackers that allow professors to check class attendance without students signing a sheet or handing in their signed attendance cards. In the past students have been known to get friends to answer roll call or hand in fake cards. The university feels that this will not be the case with iPhones as most students would not want to share their personal contacts and details with fellow students.
The iPhone will also be used to build professor-student networks, convey course material, broadcast lecture videos and maybe even take tests. American universities too are using iPhones for professor-student networks, with several top universities making iPhones a mandatory requirement for certain courses.
See how it works in the video below.
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