iWish: apps that don’t exist but should
Creative ideas in regards to Apple seem to be nearly inexhaustible. While my favourite is still the photoshop competition on Worth1000.com where creative members designed Apple’s next products – such as the iPotty, the iRon or the iGuit – I found another hub of ideas on Pogue’s Posts in the New York Times on Friday.
David Pogue challenged his Twitter followers to invent iPhone or Android apps that don’t exist but should. Despite 225,000 apps on the iPhone store and 60,000 on Google’s Android store he received plenty of creative suggestions such as:
- a To Do-list program that, thanks to the phone’s GPS, would remind you of things to do when you’re in the right place to do them — to “pick up a saw when you’re near the hardware store”
- “a money program, à la Quicken, with an app that lets me take a photo of a receipt and have it entered into my account.”
- an app to tell you “where the nearest and cleanest public bathroom is.”
- “An grocery-store app that tells you the aisle of the item you’re looking for… ”
or even more advanced
- “an app that maps out my grocery list in the supermarket to give me an optimized shopping path.”
The topic fitness was also represented:
- An app that “syncs two or more iPods/iPhones, so you can run or work out with someone and everyone’s music stays in sync”“a background app that monitors my physical
- activity for the day (via the accelerometer) & tells me if I need to hit the gym at night.”
A very nice suggestion for nerds:
- An app that “adds background noise (airport, party…) during my calls, so people don’t think I’m a nerd sitting at my computer all day.”
Most likely to stay unfulfilled dreams are apps such as:
- “an app that gives my wife the ‘right answer’”
- “an app that teleports me to a spot with a good cell signal.”
For more ideas visit Pogue’s Posts
Wibke Sonderkamp – GlobalCom Germany
last modified July 19, 2010
