iphone compass

[Sinbad the Diver]

wonder if it will work as well as the snake identifier app worked for the guy in MD last week.

A snake is in a guys house, he picks it and it bites him. So he puts it in a jar and pulls out his iphone, downloads the snake app and IDs the snake as a rattlesnake (maybe the snake id app would have been better before picking it up). Then, since he a good buhdist, he lets the snake go. Goes to the doctor and it is somehow determined (story didn't explain how) that it was a copperhead not a rattlesnake. So I came up with a new commercial for the iphone....

Get bit by a snake and need to know kind bit you....there's an app for that. <pause> Now remember, it's just an iphone app, don't do something stupid like letting the snake go before a professional can determine what kind of anti-venom you need, I mean my god, it's a phone...are you people that gullible, are you people realy the sheep that Steve says you are....uhhh...is this thing still recor.....

 

[TheScubaBOB]

Here's the case for anyone who really wants to do this:

H2O Audio -- Waterproof Your iPod, Waterproof headphones, Waterproof mp3, Scuba dive with music Deep Dive Waterproof Case

 

[austinspace]

Thanks Kyphur, that appears to be the only iphone dive housing available. Its kinda big, as they have there own amp and computer-controller in there. I don't plan on buying the housing at this point just to have another compass. Maybe if a housing allowed use of the 3mp camera. I don't have any interest in listening to audio underwater at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if future generations of dive computers look something like an iPhone. Now if Apple would just add a depth gauge to the iPhone, they could enter the market!

Good story about the snake id app Sinbad - I hadn't heard that one.

As far as whether the iPhone 3G-S compass would work underwater -- so far I don't see why not (it doesn't require connection to satellites). Would it give reliable readings when not held flat ? Perhaps as well as the digital compass built into some dive computers.