At CES 2010, we found another rather interesting tidbit coming down the pipeline. Your Next App could very well be a remote control for your TV, as long as you own a Vizio.

The above picture, captured by Engadget at the CES, shows off this upcoming iPhone remote control. Yet there’s no additional accessory required, from what we can tell. How can this be possible then? Turns out most new Vizios are coming packed with WiFi accessibility; thus the remote controls makes sure that it connects to the same network and presto, you’re connected wirelessly to your TV!

Clicking on the link below will take you to a video taken at CES that shows a couple parts of the remote. As far as I can tell, it seems like a rather basic version and is likely still in development stages. So we may still be a couple months away from seeing the real deal. Still, keep holding your breath, Vizio owners — the iPhone is about to become a whole lot cooler for you. Ready to have something new to show off to your Blackberry friends?

via Engadget

After creating the title for this article, I’m strongly considering starting a series titled “What The:” that cover really cool concepts coming to life on the iPhone that I would’ve never thought of myself, which puts me into total awe that somebody came up with such a cool idea AND pulled it off. And in this case, could likely end up becoming Your Next App.

Mophie, a company now famous for its Juice Pack cases that charge up your phone as an external battery whilst in the case (thus giving your iPhone one additional battery), announced a Juice Pack TV case at CES 2010. This case will allow you to view FLO TV on your iPhone, effectively combining a case, external battery, and mobile TV receiver all into one.

We don’t really know much about how it’ll work yet, but I am pre-emptively assuming that an iphone app will still be required in order to accept the TV accessory, as is permitted now with OS 3.x. It’s 2 mm thicker than the standard Juice Pack case, and CES showed off demo units in red and black. The Juice Pack TV will be popping its head out for sale sometime first half 2010. We don’t know any price details yet, but I personally am expecting to see it around $100 or higher.

via EngadgetMobile; photo courtesy Engadget

Slacker Radio is an extremely popular internet radio app on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It works great for the iPhone, but iPod Touch users get a bit annoyed by it because they can only use it when connected to WiFi, which in my opinion defeats the purpose of having it in the first place. Fortunately at CES 2010 Slacker announced a new update for both devices that will feature caching.

Caching simply means that while connected to the internet, the app loads in tons of new content and keeps ahold of it until you’re ready. Then once it’s used, that content will be refreshed next time you get on the internet. That way, you can listen to it when you don’t have internet access. For instance, anyone that uses an iPhone who flies a lot will love the fact they can use Slacker while in Airplane Mode.

One other benefit: less strain on your iPhone battery. Any improvement in the battery life of the iPhone is welcome!

I’m actually pretty interested in this update. I use Slacker regularly and would like to see this feature integrated. What do you think?

via Cnet

So you’re a movie geek (ahem: movie buff) and are always in constant need of trivia nourishment. MovieMistakes is here to help with an upcoming iPhone app.

I imagine the app will quite similar to its home site, which has a boatload of information and trivia on virtually every movie you can think of and where the cast and crew messed up.

It keeps track of everything; for instance,  there’s a scene in Star Trek where the captain’s Starfleet insignia is gone, but then reappears in the next shot. These are the kinds of random trivia we love to find as movie-lovers. And soon we’ll be able to easily access these bits and pieces in a convenient app.

We found out after seeing a tweet from @moviemistakes that says: “Musing on MM iphone app features. Anything people would especially like to be able to do with the upcoming app?” So please feel free to follow them and even reply to the tweet with any ideas of your own. Apparently the app is still in early stages if they are asking for ideas, but hopefully it will translate into beta testing sometime soon.

Few apps have successfully offered internet TV for the iPhone. In fact, I could probably count them all on my fingers. Some apps are now having success in enabling live TV streaming or uploading, such as UStream or Qik, but that’s about the extent of TV on the iPhone beyond YouTube.

That’s where Stay Tuned is trying to make its debut. Developed by Codefurious, Stay Tuned will start off by offering one single channel live, and expand channels and features later down the road. Here’s the full explanation on the Stay Tuned official website:

The internet has a lot of great video content: video blogs, game and movie trailers, video podcasts, machinima, fan films, internet tv shows and webseries. All this great content, and yet viewers have to track it all down themselves. That’s where we come in.

The Stay Tuned iPhone app will be a single part of a much larger endeavor. We at Codefurious are developing a broadcasting system designed specifically to help viewers watch great internet content. The initial format will be much the same as traditional TV, with a single channel available at launch. And we will expand features and channel selection from there.

Like how this sounds? We can’t do this without your support and feedback. Please follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/codefurious) or post questions and feedback in our forums.

Look for us in the iTunes App Store soon!

So of course I’m intrigued, but the information on this particular channel being offered is extremely vague. What kind of internet content will this channel have? Will the app catch on if the general public doesn’t get to choose what they watch? Hopefully we’ll get answers soon.

X-Doc is a fun little app that will let you point your camera at someone and you will see that person in X-Ray fashion. Watch the video below and visit X07Brainiac’s website to learn more about it.

X-Doc is now available on the App Store for free. Download it directly from the link below:

Press Release from X07 Brainiac:

X-Doc is an absolutely new X-ray fun application for your iPhone or iPod-Touch!

If you thought that all the other existing
applications were funny, this one will knock your socks off! 

You always wanted to know about the things happening under your boss' suit?
You want to know what the lady sitting in front of you is hiding inside?*
Somehow your pal always seemed to be a bit strange?* 

X-Doc brings it to light!

X-Doc contains unexpected gimmicks inside invisible parts of the human body which can be explored in realtime by using the iPhone or iPod-Touch gravitiy sensor.
That means: X-ray until you need a Doctor to come!
You can play the role of an X-Ray expert by yourself.
And it is you who can uncover the most secret and unexpected things inside the bowels of your clueless fellow men. Indeed the fun gets at their expenses.
Could there be anything nicer than:

"Having fun with others about others?"

An amount of small, funny, creepy-iky and strange X-ray animations need to be detected.
So if you feel young or old enough, if you feel ready for something new that's really zany, just download the free-version and have fun.
Simpley impress young or old people with the faked technological possibilities of your iPhone/iPod-Touch.

App Features:
• Realtime x-ray simulation using gravity sensor of  iPhone/iPod-Touch
• Interactive menue containing different adjustabilities for handling the simulated x-ray process
• Selection of gender*
• Selection switch of different positions*
• Different animation contents freely selectable*
• X-ray through different layers of a human skeleton
• X-ray sound effekts
• Sound can be switched on or off at any time.
This makes X-Doc possible to use in important but deathless boring meetings - At your own risk of course  

*Available in the full version X-Doc XXL

This app is for entertainment, so don't  believe everything you will see