Here's another brilliant $.99 iPhone app that offers more than just buyers remorse. I was as giddy as a little school girl waiting to give the iPhone Any-O-Meter a proper test drive. This simple sight-gag app is destined to become an iPhone classic because it's so damn convincing.
Launch the app and select a meter from the preset list such as Alien Detector, Robot Detector or create your own "Douche Bag Meter" like I did in seconds. Last night I outed several douchy, wannabe vampires standing in line at the Twilight DVD release event I attended. Trust me, the Any-O-Meter never lies.
When you tilt your iPhone away from yourself the meter reading moves towards the peak, immediately revealing that you're a total douche nozzle. Tilt the device towards yourself to get the lowest reading, which means that you're barely a douche at all. The app puts out an authentic beeping indicator tone that lets everyone around know your results instantly. That's half the fun!
Some Twilight loving, vampire, poser nerd asked me; "Is that real?" I said; "Yes, it's real!" I guess that makes makes me both a liar and a total douche bag. Not that anything is wrong with that.
Have you seen the original DoucheMeter?
Released last year, also fully configurable to show exactly what you want.
You might wanna check it out:
http://mealable.com/douchemeter.html
Posted by: Toby | March 22, 2009 at 08:15 PM