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It doesn't use the video camera though, instead having a black "radar screen" with concentric white circles indicating range (with the compass cardinal points marked in the innermost rotating circle) and pulsing pink "dots" showing restaurants, cinemas, shopping centres, train stations etc at various distances.

I'm in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and have it filtered to cinemas and can currently "see" Ster Century Cinema to my East (Qype Mobile gives me various reviews and Safari links when I tap on the pulsing dot), Vue and Odeon Cinemas to my left...

According to Lastminute.com, next destination, North America and Australia. And it's FREE. Watch out for it on the App Store.

"Honeys to my East, fellers to my West, put them both together and we party with the best..."

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