Episode 35: Gym Babes, the pinnacle of iPhone App innovation
Every now and then, an iPhone application hits the marketplace and causes an absolute stir.
Gym Babes is one of them.
It is, quite simply, one of the most innovative concepts I've ever seen.
It's patently useless.
It won't tell you the time in Tokyo.
It won't find your last train home.
It won't pay the London Congestion Charge automatically according to your location.
It won't let you book a hotel room.
It won't enable you to converse with a Mongolian Monk about the next moon cycle.
But.
And there is a but!
It will let you watch a choice of two reasonably attractive women running on a treadmill, formatted in glorious iPhone format.
What's more you get a choice of whether you'd like to see the lady run, walk or 'slow-mo'.
And there is, of course, some fairly dodgy -- yet highly appropriate -- accompanying music.
Why is this good? Why is this the pinnacle?
Well, the concept. It's simply marvelous. How simple can you get? Run the
Gym Babes is one of them.
It is, quite simply, one of the most innovative concepts I've ever seen.
It's patently useless.
It won't tell you the time in Tokyo.
It won't find your last train home.
It won't pay the London Congestion Charge automatically according to your location.
It won't let you book a hotel room.
It won't enable you to converse with a Mongolian Monk about the next moon cycle.
But.
And there is a but!
It will let you watch a choice of two reasonably attractive women running on a treadmill, formatted in glorious iPhone format.
What's more you get a choice of whether you'd like to see the lady run, walk or 'slow-mo'.
And there is, of course, some fairly dodgy -- yet highly appropriate -- accompanying music.
Why is this good? Why is this the pinnacle?
Well, the concept. It's simply marvelous. How simple can you get? Run the
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