Vandalize Your Neighbor’s Building with Fat Tag Graffiti app

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

At first glance this application (iTunes Link) just screamed useless. People with far and away too much free time continue to develop apps that seemingly have no function or utility at all. But with that, often we fail to recognize that one crawls then walks, then runs.

L1020422_Raw What this will lead to who knows. Easier hookups to projectors? No doubt. While pocket sized projectors that use LEDs rather than halide bulbs are still in their infancy, an application like FatTag’s iPhone based tagging application might send the race for a functional pocket projector into hyper-drive. As an iPhone user I still remember my first mobile phone fondly, an 8 pound Motorola that came with a carrying bag and 2 hours of battery life.

For that matter the steam engine was first developed to pump water out of mine shafts, and people failed to see how it affected them despite giving birth to electricity. The typewriter gave birth to the electric typewriter, followed by the word processor, then the home desktop to the laptops many will be using to read this.

Applications like this will force the hardware to improve. It’s only a matter of time before the aforementioned pocket projectors will also be blue-tooth equipped, thanks to apps like these.

For now this app still requires, AV cables, a projector (click here for the detailed setup instructions) and the willingness to give up your phone for as long as you are using it to paint buildings, but think of the possibilities. Sure at its base it is simply a drawing application, cables and a projector, but it is a new way of thinking as well.

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