NoseDial app, AppLink lands for Ford Sync, Space tech uses iPhone headphones to check heart rate

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If you live where gloves are required when you go outside you have undoubtedly had a hard time using your iPhone at some point. A new app called NoseDial has surfaced that lets you dial your phone and navigate contacts using your nose. If you own a 2011 Ford Fiesta, you are the first to get a new update for Ford Sync called AppLink that allows you to use your voice to control your iPhone app. The only compatible app right now is Pandora and once the Sync app is applied to the car your voice can navigate stations and rate songs. The European Space Agency is talking up tech that will allow headphones and an app on the iPhone to record your heart rate while exercising. Future versions of the tech will also be able to record levels of oxygen in the blood all form just wearing your headphones.

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