Photos: The future of mobile life - in the lab

The academics cooking up tomorrow's mobile apps...

By Natasha Lomas, 26 June 2009 12:08

This iPhone app - called CamGnomes - toys with the Swedish tradition of playing pranks on people by stealing garden gnomes and sending postcards back to the owner claiming to be from the travelling gnome.

In the iPhone version of the game users pick up virtual gnomes created by fellow game players, adding photos and messages before leaving them in locations for other users to find - building up a gnome-based social network in the process.

Photo credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

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