The Beeb says that North East Wales NHS Trust’s total ban on video and cameraphone usage will remain and that hospital patients and visitors will have to keep their phones on silent, and switch them off if hospital staff tell them to.

I was under the impression that hospitals have long known that it was fairly unlikely mobiles would monkey around with their equipment and just kept a blanket ban on mobiles in place for etiquette reasons: after all, if you’re recovering from some terrible disease, listening to a Crazy Frog ringtone over and over again isn’t exactly going to speed your recovery.

According to the company, users can snap an object with the cameraphone and then get content sent back to the device about the object. For example, by snapping a CD cover, the user will get links to web content about the artist, sound clips of their songs and an offer to download a single or two.

I’d really like to see these applications in action – if they work as simply as they say they do, I can see them proving to be popular. Anyone know if any UK operators are trying this out?