Our latest project is our scariest ever: a virtual ghost detector!

Many paranormal investigators believe that fluctuations in Electro-Magnetic Frequences (or EMF) might indicate paranormal activity. Our application, built for mobile TV specialists WireTown, looks for these fluctuations and interprets them on a mobile phone screen as ghostly presences. It factors in regional issues and variations and compares the reception of users on the same network, flagging up expected peaks and troughs and linking them to a needle-and-gauge readout on the handset.

But it's more than just an on-phone novelty: building on the huge success of shows like Most Haunted and Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns on LivingTV, the application lets its users interact with a TV broadcast, producing an always-on link between viewers and a live show for the very first time. SMS participation is very popular, but declining and unwieldy. Live mobile TV is the future, but will take time to reach the mass audience. Connected on-phone applications like the Detector are commercially viable now and open a new world of opportunities to participation TV.

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