Via Slashdot, Newsweek reports that the US Army is issuing iPod Touches and iPhones to troops in the field as standard equipment. The uses are diverse and fascinating, from pulling down live video feeds from drones to calculating ballistics trajectories and looking up etiquette for cultural encounters. This is real science fiction stuff. Live video from above you? That's pretty out there.
What's also interesting, of course, is that living in New York City, the damn iPhone is completely ubiquitous. It's shocking how many people have those things. Their attraction is their versatility. An iPhone is really just a small computer with a great interface, and it's amazing that they are proving useful for everyone from yuppies to teenagers to soldiers in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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