25 Unusual and Inspiring Uses for Your iPhone

It’s official. The iPhone has become a large part of our lives and, for many of us, we cannot think of life without it. There are many popular applications that have received a lot of media attention, but there are also those that quietly sit in a segment of our iPhone springboard that become an absolute necessity at the best of times.

In today’s post I will be looking at 25 “Unusual and Inspiring” uses for your iPhone – ranging from health to remote controls for just about anything! Please feel free to discuss apps that you too find unique in the comments below. Now on to the list…

Health

1. Surviving an Earthquake

I thought I’d start off with the most dramatic one first. Imagine thanking your handy little iDevice for keeping you alive in an Earthquake. Well, American film maker Dan Woolley has. Once freeing himself from rubble, and finding an escape to an elevator shaft, Woolley used a first-aid application to assist him in treating his wounds. The application also told him to set reminders not to fall asleep so he would not go into shock.

Some examples of these such applications are; St John’s Ambulance First Aid and Pocket First Aid and CPR (Woolley used this one!)

First Aid

2. Electronic Medical Records

LifeRecord is a handy little application for Doctors and medical professionals. Essentially it gives access to patients’ records via technology called EMRAnywhere. Doctors can prescribe medicine, bill patients and pull up their records regardless of where they are all with the touch of a button. The iPhone application works in sync with the desktop version so all records are kept up to date between the two devices.

3. Become Pregnant

Yes indeed, your iPhone can help you to become pregnant! A woman in the UK (Lena Bryce) was thought to be infertile for four years until she purchased an iPhone and downloaded theFree Menstrual Calendar application. Within two months of using this application, Bryce became pregnant and even gave birth on the exact day the application predicted. The child has been dubbed the first ‘iPhone Baby’.

Menstrual Calendar

4. Baby Monitor

A very smart idea that allows you to use your iPhone as a baby monitor for when it is sleeping (if you can part from it for that long!). CodeGoo’s Baby Monitor application is designed to alert you when your child awakens by placing an automatic phone call to any specified number when it detects sound or movement.

Baby Monitor

5. Warm Your Hands

Feeling cold this Winter? Well this is a great solution for you! The Hands Heater application will run your iPhone and will heat up the processes onboard to keep your hands toasty and warm! Obviously it won’t get too hot (and will likely cripple your battery life), so don’t expect any miracles, but a cool little app nonetheless.

The Hand Heater

Music

6. DJ Deck

An application not to be taken too seriously – Mix Deck is your own pocket DJ. You can mess around with the music on your iPhone by changing the speed and even using built in effects. Obviously not to be used in a real sense, but fun to play around with – who knows, it might inspire you to pick up Logic?

DJ Decks

7. Guitar Tuner

Guitar Toolkit is an application I use regularly myself. After searching through the iTunes store I found it to be the highest rated, and the most expensive. All I can say is WOW! It is very accurate – even with my iPhones microphone. I tune my Bass guitar with it often, it’s quick and easy! On top of this you get functionality of of a metronome and a chord library.

There are many other great tuner apps out there, just not as feature-packed. Cleartune is an example of such an application. If you are just after a tuner, maybe give it a go.

Tuner & Chords