Oct 07

So where is my Tricorder app?

- By on October 7th, 2008

Here I am, since early August, a new iPhone owner, loving the app store and the cool ideas people are putting out there for us to use, wondering all the while where my tricorder app is? Come on!! You have to be kidding me? This has to be not only fun to do, but relatively simple. And all the stuff needs to do is support the once fictional touch screen buttons bringing up various bits of fakery.

So I call you out, lone iPhone app developer, to get off your can and get working on the best thing you’ll do all week!

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  1. Steven F.
    Steven F.
    October 7, 2008 at 5:34 pm | | Reply

    MY friend makes simple apps on the app store, I’ll see what I can do about it. :D

  2. flmumb
    flmumb
    October 7, 2008 at 5:39 pm | | Reply

    http://38i.biz/tricorder/

  3. digisam
    digisam
    October 7, 2008 at 5:44 pm | | Reply

    I had to goggle what a “tricorder” is

    Perhaps cos all the Trek fans are Linux boys?

  4. Icesnake
    Icesnake
    October 7, 2008 at 5:49 pm | | Reply

    @digisam: I had to Google what an “iPhone” is. It seems to be an inferior knock-off of the HTC Touch smartphone, except locked into a much more expensive contract with the Death Star cell phone company.

  5. Sithinious
    Sithinious
    October 7, 2008 at 5:54 pm | | Reply

    There’s a Kirk’s Communicator app for the iphone, but after reading the reviews it seems it’s not worth downloading (or paying for, I believe it was NOT a free app).

  6. papabear34
    papabear34
    October 7, 2008 at 7:30 pm | | Reply

    I know its only close, but there is this one.

    http://web.me.com/mike.mcfin/iLCARS/iLCARS.html

  7. Eric
    Eric
    October 7, 2008 at 9:23 pm | | Reply

    If Apple is still approving apps, then you’ll never see one exactly until the owners of the tricorder designs say it’s okay. Apple won’t risk that. (And since when has Apple actually been interested in what their users want versus what they tell their users to want?)

  8. Corhen
    Corhen
    October 7, 2008 at 9:39 pm | | Reply

    there is a tricorder app out there, i saw it the other day, aperently its pretty lame, they dont have the acrual sounds, so they made thier own, and the screen only has a couple of interactive bouttons

  9. Corhen
    Corhen
    October 7, 2008 at 9:48 pm | | Reply

    Update

    its called Tricorder TR-580, link to in in the itunes store

    http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D290579379%2526mt%253D8%2526partnerId%253D30%2526partnerId%253D30%2526siteID%253DTcgcDr9BHMw-HxWzMa6wUp1vmnPCptorzg

    and a link to the homepage

    http://www.javaworks.de/page58/page59/page59.html

    inludes screen shots.

    The price is $.99
    hope you enjoy

  10. loki
    loki
    October 7, 2008 at 11:10 pm | | Reply

    Scott just loves searching for Life Forms on his IPhone

  11. loki
    loki
    October 7, 2008 at 11:15 pm | | Reply

    and scott does not know how to use youtube…
    here some video of it working :P
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzrIyPCtw4

  12. Esben Karlsen
    Esben Karlsen
    October 8, 2008 at 12:26 am | | Reply

    Admit it. You just want someone calling you to beam them up, Scotty

  13. Garfunkle
    Garfunkle
    October 8, 2008 at 6:14 am | | Reply

    There is also a Star Trek theme for the iPod Touch/iPhone too. Kinda cool, but… meh.

  14. Jaime
    Jaime
    October 9, 2008 at 10:15 pm | | Reply

    I sorta love my iPhone. The apps crash WAYYYYYYYY TOO much, though.