New iPhone app helps visually impaired

As you might know, the Apple iPhone has a ton of third-party applications, ranging from a guitar emulator to the  --oh so wonderful -- iBoobs.  Now, maybe these are not so useful, but they are quite fun.  However, a new app, called Shake & Dial by Muhieddine El Kaissi, can defintely be filed under the 'useful' category, especially if you happen to be visually impaired.

The general purpose of this application is to help out those who have less-than-stellar vision with doing a simple iPhone tasks, such as making phone calls.  Capitalizing on the iPhones motion sensor ability, all the user needs to do is shake the phone to make a call.  Six preset contacts are set in place.  For each shake made, the resulting contact will be called.  So if the iPhone is shook twice, contact number two is called.

Now even though the application is to help make the visually impaired more independent, someone with better vision must use the touch screen to set the six contacts.

To buy the app for a whopping amount of $2.99, follow this link to the iTunes Store.