Lena Bryce’s mobile phone got her pregnant. Dan Woolley’s kept him alive for days under a collapsed building. Fran Neri’s saved her from a life-threatening infection. A fast-growing array of downloadable applications for smartphones is turning the mobile phone into a doctor in your pocket, on constant call to diagnose ills and propose cures. Soon mobile apps could even provide lifesaving home treatment for millions. That’s the upside. Experts warn, though, that apps may turn us into a neurotic nation of phone-hugging iPho-chondriacs.
Apps are software programs that run on smartphones such as the iPhone, Google Android, Palm and Blackberry. Where once mobiles were just for calls, texts and taking snaps, apps transform them into machines that can monitor your sleep, give you perfect abs, help you to conceive or even cure your acne. Apple says that about 100 million apps are downloaded each month from its website alone; many of them free.
There are already more than 2,000 health-related apps on offer. You can test your hearing with Unitron’s uHear and learn how to resuscitate someone with Zoll Medical’s PocketCPR. WaveSense’s Diabetes Manager offers a record-keeping system that helps diabetics to track their glucose results, carbohydrate intake and insulin doses.
The AcneApp, meanwhile, promises to clear your skin with light-therapy delivered from the phone’s screen. It projects bursts of blue and red light that are believed to have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory powers.
News Source:- http://www.timesonline.co.uk
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