There's an app for that: test how ripe a melon is with iWatermelon for iPhone
If you don’t mind looking like an idiot, there’s now an iPhone app which lets you test how ripe a watermelon is.
Switch the app on, enter the size and colour of the melon and then tap the melon with the iPhone. The app then calculates from the sound how ripe the melon is inside.
At first, I thought “huh – this is one of those funny apps which doesn’t actually work” – like the Swine Flu test app (cough into your iphone and it tells you if you have Swine Flu…) or the weighing machine app (stand on your iphone and uh, break it).
But no – apparently by analysing the sound made by the reverberating melon, the iPhone can genuinely tell you whether the melon is ripe or not.
My key objection to the app is the public reaction likely to be engendered by you tapping fruit with your phone. Fine in the privacy of your own home when weighing up which watermelon to eat first, but definitely a awkward social situation in public. People in the Tescos fruit aisle will think you are nuts, and if you try this in a market place you probably deserve to have your phone nicked, or perhaps just a melon thrown at your head.
Still, if it ever gets warm enough for watermelons over here and you’re an iPhone user who likes fruit, this could be a fun little app. Apparently it also works for other hollow objects, if you want to eat them too.
iWatermelon Deluxe is £0.59. Here’s the iTunes link
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Their actually making us dumber, not smarter. Apps are making us seriously dependant on the iPhone.
Apps like this just make me think how far do we take this app thing? Now that the apps are taking the place of basic human knowledge… like testing the watermelon to see if it’s ripe… the app makes the decision. Not a human.
Apps like this just make me think how far do we take this app thing? Now that the apps are taking the place of basic human knowledge… like testing the watermelon to see if it’s ripe… the app makes the decision. Not a human.
wolfman, you should have had a spellcheck app to help you out, there.
@punkid – well. props for trying that one out.
Are these apps going a bit far? I mean, I can understand apps that would be absolutely useful, and without the iPhone, would be impossible. But apps like this just make me think how far do we take this app thing? Now that the apps are taking the place of basic human knowledge… like testing the watermelon to see if it’s ripe… the app makes the decision. Not a human.
In effect, their actually making us dumber, not smarter. Apps are making us seriously dependant on the iPhone. Loose your phone and you’ll instantly go stupid. It’s the phone that makes you smart. Not you actually BEING smart. Just sayin’.
@eldridge – you are absolutely right, it is available in the UK: i’ll update this story
Hey, I’ve just downloaded it from the UK store
Wow, this is cool!
I used this app to test my brother’s head – I slapped it 3 times – appears that it’s hollow and unripe, hehe :))
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