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In recent times I have been fas­ci­nated by the amount of new appli­ca­tions, and hard­ware, that allows your mobile phone to become aug­mented in its functionalities.

Music has been one of the first areas where this become a reality.

With iRig you may turn you iPhone or iPad in a music stu­dio. Just select the soft­ware mod­eled amp and effects and you are ready.

You can turn your iPhone in a POS accept­ing credit card with Square.

You can have a Geiger counter using a probe con­nected to your iPhone (here), or just sim­ply use your phone cam­era to do it. (here)

You can mea­sure dis­tances using echoes (here).

There are dozens of appli­ca­tion to check your heart rate using the mobile phone cam­era and flash, and one of your fingers.

Your phone can be used as a baby mon­i­tor, or a spy device if you like.

And these are just the appli­ca­tions I can remem­ber right now. There are hundreds!

As I was writ­ing in my pre­vi­ous post I think this is def­i­nitely a new area we should look at for inno­va­tion in mobile.

It shows how the envi­ron­ment around you can be con­nected to your mobile phones in ways that we could not imag­ine a few years ago. Cur­rent smart­phones have so many sen­sors that we have just started to scratched the surface.

The inter­est­ing point is around tech­nol­ogy. I am sure that engi­neers were not think­ing about a dis­tance mea­sure­ment device when they place a mike and a speaker in your mobile phone. There will always be some­one who will try to push the hard­ware and soft­ware to new lim­its. This already hap­pened in the past with SMS, and the new hard­ware and soft­ware now avail­able have just made that world closer to peo­ple will­ing to explore and innovate.

For sure you will not just place phone calls with your mobile. Not anymore.

Related posts:

1. Are Mobile Phone Jacks Of All Trades?
2. Turn Your Mobile Phone In A Mobile WiFi Access Point.
3. My fat mobile phone
4. Your Mobile Phone Is Talk­ing To A White Cube
5. The mobile phone is the evil