It’s such a shame that I didn’t know about Eye Glasses before today. Not real spectacles, of course - I’ve heard of those - but the application from Freeverse which turns the iPhone into a big, square, magnifying glass.
It’s a shame because just this past weekend my parents came to visit, and in between wresting the gin bottle from my mother’s hand and rescuing my train-spotting father from the evil, camera-fearing security guards at the local railway station, I could have distracted them both with this handy application.
Eye Glasses is for the hard-of-seeing, whether oldies with failing vision or plain short sighted, squinting spectacle-wearers. Hold the iPhone in front of some hard to read text and the app takes the camera’s feed and makes it bigger: up to eight times bigger, enough even for a bulge-eyed myopic with inch-thick lenses to make out a few words.
Of course, you could still use a real magnifying glass, or buy a dedicated electronic magnifier, but at just $3, this is probably cheaper than either. It works with any iPhone, but the close-focusing 3GS will give the best results.
Product page [iTunes]
