Though it will launch in the App Store under the guise of a video conferencing tool, a capability which it provides natively, MindMeld is actually an information-driven application which listens in to your conversation and attempts to understand what’s being said. Once it figures out what you’re talking about, MindMeld will try to create a model of the conversation’s context, and from that it will attempt to locate and display relevant information from many different sources. “We’re listening to the last ten minutes to predict what you need in the next ten seconds,” Tuttle told Ars. “We’re trying to make it so you never have to explicitly search for something you’ve already talked about.”
The iPhone started as a web communicator, but these mobile devices are going to be assistants.