New Lost iPhone App Shouts ‘Polo’ When You Yell ‘Marco’

Have a bad habit of putting your phone on silent and then leaving it somewhere you can’t find it? There’s an app for that. Known as Marco Polo, the brand new app is based on the classic hide-and-seek game you might have played in the family pool as a kid. You yell "Marco" and your phone yells "Polo" back. You work out where the 'voice' is coming from and voila! Recover your missing mobile from the deep dark recesses of the couch, the top shelf of the refrigerator or the shed in the back garden — wherever you left it after one too many mojitos the night before.

The two best things about the Marco Polo app is that it works regardless of your phone’s setting –— be it at a low volume, on silent or in sleep mode — and that it doesn’t depend on an internet connection. And the final best bit? Rather than having to hassle every family member or housemate to help you in the search, all you’ve got to do is walk around frantically yelling "Marco". Angry panic session becomes slightly silly game in one easy download.

To boost the fun factor, you can pick and choose between thirty or so voice options and change the 'input phrase' to suit you. In other words, if you’d rather think of your phone as a pet than as a fourteenth century Venetian traveller, you can customise your phrase as, "Come here" and set your phone to answer "Woof, woof". Just be nice to your iFriend.

Marco Polo, the first independent app from developer Matt Wiechec, works with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can download it for $1.29.

Via PSFK.