Your very own heat sensor in the palm of your hand

If you’ve ever seen the film Predator then you’ll know just how cool and useful a heat sensor can be.

Heat Pad turns your iPhone into your very own warmth-sensing contraption. Or should I say it ‘simulates’ a heat sensor because, of course, the iPhone doesn’t come with this function built into it. Instead, Heat Pad simply monitors where your hand is using the touchscreen then changes the color of the display depending on the length of time it’s on there for.

There are three types of surface to choose from in Heat Pad. The first, ‘Heat’, is the regular, Predator-style heat sensor, the ‘Flame’ puts fire at your fingertips, and ‘Fantasy’ produces a weird psychedelic effect. You can also adjust sensitivity and inertia settings to vary the way Heat Pad reflects your movements.

Heat Pad is certainly fun to play around with and is strangely relaxing for a while. It does get a bit boring after a while though.

Install Heat Pad is you want to trick your friends into thinking you’ve unlocked a cool new feature in the iPhone. Then uninstall it a few minutes after.

Shake-to-erase sensibility has been improved to avoid accidental triggering while walking

Changes

• Shake-to-erase sensibility has been improved to avoid accidental triggering while walking