By Michael Breckenridge
The iPhone is touted as the wunderkind of cell phones. I don’t doubt that’s true. But does it live up to its potential? Are there further boundaries to explore? There’s already a ghost radar app, so the paranormal is covered. Is there anything you can think of for which someone can’t presently say, “Yeah, there’s an app for that”?
I submit for your consideration an app wish list for the iPhone. Not necessarily things I wish for, but maybe you do. Or someone you know. I can imagine people wishing for these apps.
How many of these app ideas already exist, how many are possible but not implemented, and how many will require an upgrade, possibly based on some future technology that only exists in the minds of guys like Charlie Epps (the young genius professor played by David Krumholtz on Numb3rs, only one of the best TV shows EVER. Well, next to NCIS maybe. Who can resist cute goth chicks of science? They’re probably the evolution of the gypsy girls from Bouguereau’s paintings, but I digress.)
Here are my suggested apps for some future iPhone:
- A geiger counter
- a cardio-defibrillator
- an app for looking back in time and into the future through the LCD screen
- a bomb-sniffing app
- a hangover cure
- instant drink cooler or warmer
- electronic aphrodisiac
- OBD2
- personal shield generator
- coffee maker
- car autopilot
- Star Trek style stun function
- an implementation of every cool mathematical model ever thought of for a Numb3rs episode for use in real life
- an origami folder (how it’s going to do that I don’t know. With little robot fingers, maybe? That might work for the aphro idea too. Oops, I guess that just garnered this article an adult rating)
- a clothes mender (if it can fold origami why not mend garments too?)
- a sonic car wash/clothes wash/silver polisher
- an automatic gourmet food prep app (just hold the iPhone over the ingredients and let the app do the rest)
- an app that gives the correct answer to any question (not just a Google-style “I’m feeling lucky” guess)
- a camera app that takes pictures through other people’s cameras based on an input geolocation or just an idea and then forwards the photo to the iPhone (suddenly every iPhone will be trying to find cameras on the network to take pictures of hot chicks on nude beaches – such is the nature of today’s humanity – what, you wouldn’t look? Get over yourself.)
and finally, drum roll please…
- an app that makes a website that actually makes money while I sleep in a hammock tied between two palm trees at the beach. Got some serious power-napping to do!
Where’s that beach waiter with my Mai Tai? Do I need to take my business to a competing resort? (Office Space reference.) 
Ok, your turn. What apps are missing from this theoretical list? 
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I actually decided to produce a simple movie about this, I would be appreciative if you could maybe take a minute to watch it and possibly leave a message about what you think, I left the video link in the website field, hopefully you can access it, thank you a lot.
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