Hasta La Ideas

We’re simultaneously impressed by the cleverness of this iPhone app and a little sad that it’s come to this in our society.

Email ‘n Walk uses your iPhone’s camera to show you what’s right in front of you, while superimposing text boxes so you can compose e-mail and, yes, walk, without bumping into anything. Think of it as a ghetto HUD.

Next we need a version of the app with facial recognition that can superimpose people’s details, so we can keep our phones pressed to our faces during all manner of interactions:

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