| Mobile phones have progressed so far in the last ten | | | | panoramic view. Apps for keeping current provide |
| years that it is hard to imagine life without one. How did | | | | investors quick access to the stock market to see |
| we cope? From quick phone calls to the odd text, | | | | how their investments are faring and of course there |
| since its birth, the mobile phone has changed the way | | | | is a huge array of apps that give you the latest |
| we communicate forever. Add to this, a built in camera, | | | | headlines, sports scores, celebrity gossip, weather and |
| diary, music system and the internet and it seems all | | | | more. |
| we are missing is the kitchen sink. In just one hand we | | | | One of the biggest and most exciting developments in |
| have a little piece of everything in a neat, stylish little | | | | the app world is the Health and Medical market where |
| package. But it doesn't stop there. With the dawn of | | | | there are already over 2000 health related apps. You |
| the smartphone, such as the iphone, Blackberry, Palm | | | | can test your hearing, find out when you are most |
| and Google Android comes an age where we are | | | | fertile, manage your blood sugar levels if you are |
| more informed, guided and generally able to monitor | | | | diabetic, have your very own personal trainer and |
| ours lives better than ever before. | | | | monitor your contractions when in labour, to name but |
| Apps are software programs designed and built to be | | | | a very few. Scientists are already developing app |
| downloaded to your smartphone and they are | | | | technology which will help recognise dangerous |
| covering an increasing range of subjects from the fun | | | | medical problems through photos and companies are |
| and wacky to practical and useful. There are apps for | | | | focused on working to develop mobile health apps to |
| cooks, one offers a built in timer to remind you your | | | | monitor post op patients when they are released from |
| food is ready, another is a pocket guide to over 380 | | | | hospital to alert if they develop any complications at |
| cheeses. Apps for the great outdoors, surfers can | | | | home. Health apps are already transforming lives and |
| download an app to give them an up to date surf | | | | with technology rapidly evolving and progressing, who |
| check report, photographers can snap away at a | | | | knows what mobile phones will be capable of in |
| landscape scene to create a full 360 degree | | | | another ten years. |