Email ‘N Go Is Perfect For Emailing ‘N Driving

Leander Kahney ()

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When I’m barrelling down the freeway in my four-ton Land Rover, I like to check Google Maps on my iPhone and email my friends. Trouble is, I can’t see where I’m going.

Email ‘N Walk, a new super-clever iPhone app, offers the perfect solution.

It uses the iPhone’s camera to display on screen what’s up ahead. It’s designed for pedestrians  — to stop them walking into lampposts as they read or send email — but it’d work in automotive settings too.

Shame it doesn’t work for text , Web browsing, maps, or video, but it’s a start.

Available for free — for a limited time — from Phase2 Media.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • daz

    Please tell me this article is a joke.

  • stuartAB

    If you’re serious that you email while driving, any vehicle, then I hope the local police visit you real soon now (as Jerry Pournelle put it in BYTE many years ago). There already too many deaths caused by drivers texting for you implicitly to encourage drivers to email.

    Think about it.

  • Eye

    Great, just great. Now the idiots texting in their cars will think it’s OK. I’m dead.

  • Mark

    WTF??! I know you’re taking the piss, but there are plenty of fucktards out there who’ll think this is a fine idea. Next time a car mounts a pavement and kills group of schoolkids, we know who to blame.

  • Fearless Fred

    Leander, much as I enjoy a joke, this one’s out of order, mate. People have been killed by just this sort of reckless driving. To joke about it just ain’t on.

  • Sviergn

    This is nonsense! Who are these fascist d-holes to tell us what to do!!! The same Constitution that gives me the right to complain about my religion not being respected as the default for everyone else, and the right to carry a shotgun in the rack next to my 3-year-old’s car seat, gives me the right to text, email, watch YouTube videos, and shop online (helping the economy!!!!!) while I’m driving. That’s freedom of expression, tards! What part of “Congress shall make no….” … … … oops, I think I’m in someone’s living room…

  • StuartAB

    Re Sviergn’s comment; what relevance has the law of just one of the world’s 200+ countries to a global web site like this one? There is a world out there, dude, and most countries don’t let you carry a shotgun next to your three year old’s car seat, thank goodness.

    As for religion, any decent one requires you to care for others’ well-being, and texting and emailing while you drive is antithetical to that responsibility.

  • Sviergn

    You’re so right, Stuart. I stand corrected. (I suppose I would “stand” corrected, except I’m still driving while I’m typing this. Whoo hoo!!! Just missed that pedestrian! Thank goodness for this app!) Your sage advice about religion and the existence of other countries has brought me newfound knowledge. Which reminds me, how soon till iClue is available from the App Store?

    (Seriously, if the part about me having driven into someone’s living room while typing on my phone didn’t clue you in that this was a joke, making fun of pompous ‘Mericans whose personal freedom is more important to them than common sense and social responsibility, what WOULD have driven that point home? A sixteen-ton weight? Come on!)

  • StuartAB

    ;-) I hadn’t realised that you were ‘actually’ typing the first comment on the move. You fooled me nicely!