Apps

In one of the most amusing citizen science projects we've ever seen, Australia's top research agency is asking its citizens to hit the gas and flag their flatulence in hilarious detail over three days, tracking toots on the Chart Your Fart app. Superb.

An app will detect if your milk is spoiled using a smartphone’s built-in vibration motor – and you don’t need to open the carton. According to the researchers behind the tech, it could help prevent sickness and liters of the white stuff being poured down the drain.

MoodCapture will use your smartphone camera as you unlock the screen to assess facial expressions and backgrounds for depression severity. While the app is still in development, the team says it represents a breakthrough in personal diagnostic medicine.

While there are already apps that guide blind users to a bus stop's GPS coordinates, those people may unknowingly end up standing too far away from the actual stop. A new app addresses that shortcoming, by letting the phone's camera in on the act.

Mobile apps and AI processing are making things a lot easier for stargazers via smart telescopes that automate complicated and fiddly processes. The latest addition to Celestron's range can also throw celestial captures onto a smart TV screen.

It's safe to say that French smart telescope innovator Vaonis took the internet by storm last year with the launch of the book-sized Hestia. Now the company has returned to its Vespera model for a second-generation upgrade.

A study has found that a smartphone app that uses a chatbot to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy can significantly reduce the distress caused by tinnitus, as well as the anxiety and depression that often accompanies it.

Back in mid-2020, a project out of Taiwan launched on Indiegogo to produce a gorgeous little mechanical music box that could play tunes loaded in using a smartphone app. Now its makers are aiming for double the fun with the Muro Box N40.

More than 17 million US households now have chickens. The world's first smart Coop, which is an ideal gateway to help novices raise chooks, has now rolled out Cluck Talk, which can tell you just what your chatty birds are saying to each other and to you.

For more than 10 years, Duolingo has been helping folks to learn a new language with ad-supported mini lessons designed to be fun and engaging. Now the company is taking its gamified model to music education.

For people with Parkinson’s disease, the simple act of walking can require constant mental vigilance, which is exhausting. Researchers have developed a free app that people with Parkinson’s can use to improve their gait and reduce the likelihood of falls.

Due to factors such as murky water and limited peripheral vision, it can be hard for scuba divers to keep track of where their fellow divers are at all times. A newly developed smartwatch app, however, may soon make it much easier for them to do so.