Here’s a list of unusual applications involving smartphones

• Ambient monitoring [engadget]

• Barcode scanning [zbar]

• Body monitoring [techcrunch]

• Credit card reader [wired]

• Infrared photography [macworld]

• Microscope [gizmodo] [techcrunch]

• Night vision and thermal imaging [photographyblog]

• Oscilloscope [wired]

• Pico projector [phonesreview]

• Remote control [sphero] [anki drive]

• RFID and NFC [rfidjournal] [icarte]

• Temperature - anything - sensing [icelsius]

• Ultrasound [technologyreview]

Makes there’s an app for that all the more apt!