Developer Patrick Giudicelli decided to take the compass on the iPhone and use it to help us figure out who's bringing weapons to the sales meeting. The Metal Detector ! app is $.99 and is available now. [iTunes link]
The app detects ferromagnetic metals like steel and iron using the iPhone's built-in compass feature. We don't have any guns at work today--Thursday's are knife day--but the app did detect the metal in our staplers, wire in-boxes, and random metal external drives.
Speaking of knife day, because the knife on my desk is stainless steel, the app couldn't detect it. Stainless steel is usually an alloy metal that isn't magnetic. Which means I can continue my stabby ways without fear of detection.
michael.kartchner
October 08, 2009 at 3:30pm
I know that my .99 cent wont be going towards that useless app!!!
