Hear Planet

Hear Planet defines itself as an audio tour guide in your pocket. As someone that tends to shell out for audio tours and tour books, when I go to new museums—I'm clearly their gadget loving audience.

And I have to say I'm impressed. They tie the location services of the iPhone into a geo database on their site and deliver blurbs of information from Wikipedia and other sources.

The delivery is a bit dry as it comes from a computer synthesized rather than an actual human being, but that isn't a game stopper.

The wealth of information at your finger tips with this app is absolutely staggering. As someone with friends with vision issues, I can see this as the beginning of something that can really change things.

But even with what they have today, this is a really impressive app.