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Get your smartphone to count calories

By John Garner

As explained over on TechCrunch you may think the below is an April fools but apparently not!

Check out what is “expected” as calories for a few cashew nuts. Imagine if you had a bag of them, they’d be deadly.

Snap those cashew Nuts

And well here’s a link for checking out the app

However on a more serious note having worked on similar types of projects for large companies these can be dangerous if taken too serioulsy when we’re talking about serious apps that provide fairly accurate info. Beware that it doesn’t become an addiction that rules your life:

reblogged via MobileCrunch

Atrix: Motorola bringing you the dream setup

By John Garner

Just checking out the Engadget site specifically the “Motorola Atrix 4G, HD multimedia dock, and laptop dock hands-on” post and what can say but WOW.
I think this looks like a dream come true and if they have put a decent camera in there I think I’m in love…

The laptop dock is basically a screen with full size keyboard that pretty much turns it the phone into a laptop!

Sony Atrix Laptop Dock

Sony Atrix Laptop Dock

The phone dock allows you to plug in mouse, keyboard and hook up to a full HD screen !

Sony Atrix Phone Dock

Sony Atrix Phone Dock

Check out the engadget video that shows it all working and much more. It is really impressive if that is the type of experience that can be expected on the final version…

I was impressed with the Droid / Milestone but this is just great…

The User experience that is shown in the video and the amount of ways it can be used plus all the functions available through the WebTop application is just amazing.

PS: when are we getting this in Europe and moreover in France???

Don’t use the iPhone as a phone of course

By John Garner

Quite amusing post by CNet UK about how bad the iPhone is at, well, being a phone: “The iPhone is the worst phone in the world“. Reminded me of a comment from a colleague recently talking about buying a new mobile phone, “I don’t want an iPhone because I want to use it as a phone and the battery is crap”. Very funny article and some good points…