What kind of iPhone applications would you like to see?

By ghutchis at Thu, Mar 6 2008 2:27pm
Scientific Databases
14% (8 votes)
Article / Reference Manager
21% (12 votes)
Visualization Tools
16% (9 votes)
GTD / Organization Tools
24% (14 votes)
Remote Access / Server Monitoring
24% (14 votes)
Games
2% (1 vote)
Other (please comment below)
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 58

Comments

Thu, 2008-03-06 14:31 — ghutchis

Visualization

I'm really interested in 3D visualization tools -- combining the accelerometer and 3D graphics would be really cool -- slide or rotate the iPhone to manipulate your model. Really cool!

(And I wouldn't mind seeing some interesting games either!)

Thu, 2008-03-06 14:45 — drc

Molecule Viewer

I'd like to have a away of viewing chemical structures

Thu, 2008-03-06 23:20 — jadelman

VPN and visualization

Just copying this over from the other post's comments . . .

I would love to see VPN access coupled to a full featured terminal, which would allow me to check up on simulations on a remote cluster, submit jobs, etc when I'm away from my computer.

I'm not sure how practical it would be in use, but it would also be nice to have a full featured version of VMD.

Of course all of this would necessitate being able to use the iPhone as a portable harddrive which I seem to remember not being completely straightforward.

I'll be waiting for the 2nd gen iPhone before I get one though. . .

Fri, 2008-03-07 21:33 — LeninWTigger

Games

I voted for "visualization tools". I would love to see some kind of "pymol player" with a minimal interface capable of reading .pse files and playing stored movies or scenes.

But, what I really want is games.

Sun, 2008-03-09 16:46 — MACsim

Scientific Databases

What does it mean Scientific Databases?

Thu, 2008-03-13 12:30 — ghutchis

Scientific Databases

I mean local access to various types of databases. I looked at the demonstration of the Epocrates drug database and thought it would be great for other types of scientific data.

Take a look at comments about the iPhone SDK. One poster mentioned having pictures of plants, insects, flowers, etc. for field work. That sounds great! Similarly, I could imagine geologists might enjoy having similar information for identifying minerals.

In my case, I'm in the lab, but I could imagine chemical databases to give me molecular weights, toxicity / safety information, density... All really helpful to have on hand.

I think these types of applications will be exciting for the iPhone. They're very popular for Palm and other handhelds.