1994 All Over Again

[andygates]

Wired's collection of silly bike apps for the iphone had me mooching through the app store even though I don't have one.  See, silly apps like the spoke calculator were part of why I got a Palm, way back when.  And sure enough, the same apps are back again - the spoke calculators and the one-rep max calculators and all that good stuff.

Granted, the brake light that uses the accelerometer to flash a rude message on the screen, that's new.  If you could preset it so that in the morning and evening rush hours and in certain areas it flashed pithy appropriate messages, I'd be impressed.

Comments

[arabis.livejournal.com]

And there are so many cool games for iPhone - including a full version of Myst! Zen Bound is still my favourite though.

Palm are dead to me since they went with capacitive touch screen - with no onscreen keyboard so that you have to use the hardware one. Boo! Bring back graffiti!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

All the nice touchscreens are capacitative - but yeah, onscreen keyboard is a no-brainer, especially since there may be times you don't want to use the hardware one.