Wow. If the Daily Mail ever start giving away Android apps as part of an ill-conceived promotional campaign, they could do worse that kick it off with iSafe.
iSafe uses GPS to identify your location and then searches various databases to find out the BAD SCARY THINGS nearby. Bad scary things like Sex Offenders, Street Crime, Speed Limits(!) and worst of all THINGS THAT CAN TRIGGER ALLERGIES.
The product features “Voice guided alerts that help navigate drivers out of potential high-crime neighborhoods”, which sounds rather like that Armstrong and Miller sketch about the racist Satellite Navigation device.
It is US only at the moment (presumably due to lack of publically available data in other countries – or possibly a lack of paranoid shut-ins, who knows? – but if surely won’t be long before this is ported to the UK.
Terrified iPhone and Blackberry owners will be pleased to learn that there is a beta available for thier handsets too.
[via AppScout]
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