ProtectOurFreedom, I’m pushing 70 and I can add a little bit to your list. I podcast Rush and listen, to him, anytime and to any show that interests me. I can track my children and grandchildren with the “Find iPhone” app. And yes, they can keep track of me. I love the “GPS Motion X” and “GPS Motion X Drive App.” Motion X has a new app that will record a persons heart rate. I still have to investigate it some more. My iPhone can even read any web page, to me.
I couldn’t read the model and serial number on my lawn tractor, so I simply took a picture, of the tag, with the numbers, enlarged the picture, on the phone, problem solved. I could go on and on. But, the best thing it helps keep me sharp and I love chatting with the young ones, they all enjoy helping me, with something new, that I may be having a problem with. And oh ya, sometimes I surprise them with something they can’t figure out.
Hi, DF. Cool stuff, huh? I got a Wahoo Blue HR Monitor for my mountain hikes on the weekends which links with the GPS. They don't do a very good job (yet) of showing your path, HR, pace and elevation/grade. I'm sure that's coming. They also don't do a good job of merging the HR data with the MapMyRun data.
I find my self taking photos of things that I need reminders on. If I'm walking through town and see an interesting poster in a window, I take a quick photo for a later reminder (sign up for history walks, concerts, etc).
My kids and I shoot SMS text messages back and forth a lot with great scenic photos of where we are. My daughter moved to Whistler, BC a couple months ago for work and sent me some great shots of the park at the lake near Whistler Village today. The neatest thing was our family vacation in July 2011 for my 60th. We climbed Mt. Washburn, the tallest peak in Yellowstone Park, about 10,200 ft. At the top is a Ranger Station / Fire Outlook and a cell connection. The kids snapped photos on the peak and had them on Facebook in a minute or two and were getting responses from their friends right away!
That's a great idea about shooting photos of serial numbers! I can't see the numbers on my equipment without pulling it out of the rack. I can just shove the camera behind the rack and take a pic.
I saw a cool article about a new McClaren car being introduced in 2013 in our local paper today. It doesn't have a daily web page (yuck), so I snapped a pic of the photo in the newspaper and sent it to my son who's a huge McClaren fan.
I also dictate text messages to Siri when I'm driving or walking and shoot off SMS messages that way. MUCH faster than keyboarding.
It is truly an amazing machine.
I used the MotionX app at the restoring honor rally in DC. We had two groups meeting up. My group got there first, the other group coming in that morning. We scoped out our spot and then I got our GPS coordinates and sent them off to my friend in the other group.
They found us in a crowd of one million people. How cool is that?