Good news for all iPhone and iPod Touch users. Well, not for all, because only 3G and 3GS versions of iPhone and 2nd generation od iPod Touch are supported at this time. Now you can charge your devices on the go via solar panels attached to the case of your device. Case itself has integrated battery, and you can charge it with or without connecting the device. Very useful, especialy if you are lost in some African desert, or stranded on some tropical island. You won't get network coverage there, but at least you can listen to music and play games until help arrives
Stella Artois has teamed up with mobile augmented reality firm AcrossAir to launch a mobile app that lets drinkers find their nearest Stella-dispensing bar.
The app, which will be launched this week according to VentureBeat, will allow users to find nearby bars from Stella Artois' 80,000-strong database, simply by waving their cameraphone around in the air.
It's one of the first big-brand AR apps, although Stella isn't alone in looking to make the most of location-based mobile technology.
Guinness launched a Pub Finder iPhone app earlier this year, while Beck's launched an app focusing on music gigs. Both used location-based technology and maps, rather than AR.
The Stella deal is a good win for AcrossAir, which has previously released AR apps Nearest Tube and Nearest Tweets. It also teamed up with Burton to make a (non-AR) app focusing on the Movember charity movement.
There are thousands of alarm applications, but this one is original. If it is suddenly snowing it is smart enough to receive a information for weather conditions and wake you early in order to compensate for your morning snow cleaning activity. Keep your BMI as it is supposed to be
Smart Alarm adjusts your wake up schedule for this snowy day, along with other unfortunate bouts of weather. You set the time that you’d like to wake up at, and it starts polling the local weather services. If it finds that you’re about to get shafted by a barometric shift, it’ll wake you up early to try to compensate.
But I can hardly beleive that there is possibility to compensate for weather like this (Ice Storm over Geneva)
Flight Control is probably the single most successful iPhone game, and has been downloaded 1.5 million times. Best of all — at least for Firemint, the company behind the title — this is the number of paid downloads (the game costs 99 cents).
The game was released back in the March of this year and has hit 1 million sales mark in the second half of June. It’s the beginning of September and that number climbed to 1.5 million, which is super impressive.
Firemint’s CEO Robert Murray is delighted (who wouldn’t be) that they’ve reached the milestone, adding: “I’m just so incredibly grateful to all the many people around the world who have embraced Flight Control and helped us to reach this amazing milestone. There’s still a lot more Flight Control to come!”
We’ll see how that goes, but considering their experience, we’ve no doubts they know what they’re doing.
First GPS application for turn-by-turn navigation has appeared for iPhone. Full navigation software and maps are installed on the phone, so there is no need for massive data traffic and expensive data tarifs. Aplication is available at the App Stores in Europe and North America, but soon it will be available for other markets. We didn’t have opportunity to test it but video preview is available at
