Innovative iPhone App "Body Compass" Allows Users to Sense Direction

Jan. 5, 2011 - PRLog -- http://www.buymyapplication.com announces the release of their new iphone app called "Body Compass".  This new innovative app allows users to sense direction by utilizing sound or vibration emanating from a users mobile device.

Direction is something that human can't detect innately.  Some species like birds have this extra sense, but unfortunately humans do not.   Humans need to train their brain to understand direction, or use tools like GPS, maps, and compasses to understand where they are going.

The Body Compass app was inspired by a 2007 Wired.com article by Sunny Baines who discussed various research efforts in spatial orientation.  In this article Sunny talks about various research efforts in the field of  “Spatial Orientation Enhanced Systems” (SOES) and the invention of the “feelSpace belt”.  Early research, funded by NASA, in this area showed that people were better able to use their innate senses to help orient themselves with the use of tactile stimulation. This same concept has now come to mobile devices via the Body Compass.  


Body Compass iphone app is able to use the newest technology available and orient users by producing a stimulation that our bodies can sense.  Using a quick sound or a phone's vibration the Body Compass is able to train a users body by alerting them each time they are pointing north.  "This simple concept can have profound effects", says Vassilios Pantazopoulos the creator of the Body Compass.  "Users report that even after they stop using the app that their sense of direction improves.  This app takes advantage of the brains plasticity by using existing senses to recognize direction".

Mr. Pantazopoulos and his team hope that this app can be used as a training tool, help the visually impaired, and possibly spur more research into the field of spatial orientation.





Download the Body Compass for your iphone:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bodycompass/id406880264?mt=8


Body Compass Benefits:

-   This app will take advantage of the brain’s plasticity by training your brain to instinctively recognize which direction your headed.

-   Improves your sense of direction and spatial orientation using tactile stimulation (sound or vibration).

-   Find out which direction you’re headed without having to look at your device.  

-   Plug in head phones and guide yourself with audible signals

Features:

-   Built-in compass with alerting mechanism triggered when pointing True North

-   Set custom alerts to alert based on degree coordinates you want to be alerted on.

-   Stop/Start alerts
-   View map and your current orientation on the map

-   Map rotates and tilts based on compass settings to better guide yourself.
-   Setup directions from Point A to Point B and guide yourself with the compass and alerts generated.
-   Email your current location.  Very useful when you want to find your way back to a particular spot or let a friend know where you are.

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