Not just phones any more

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 (software filter) [photographyblog]
• Oscilloscope [wired]
• Pico projector [phonesreview]
• Remote control [splashtop]
• RFID and NFC [rfidjournal, icarte]
• Temperature/anything sensing [icelsius]
• Ultrasound [technologyreview]