The Marco Polo App

Maybe as a child you had your own set of walkie talkies you used with your brother or your best friend who lived next door. Or perhaps, the walkie talkie is something you have only experienced through Stranger Things. If none of this makes sense, get to the nearest Netflix channel and come back here in approximately 20 hours. Either way, in spite of mobile phones existing everywhere, there is a certain amount of excitement involved in communicating in real time over a usually pretty mediocre radio channel.

With so much texting, talking on the phone is not as common, and the urgency the walkie talkie element brings to a conversation is not to be missed. Sadly, for adults, it is not that easy to walk around with walkie talkies unless you work security. This is where the Marco Polo App comes in. Available through Google Play, this is a face-to-face messaging app that facilitates both one-to-one and group conversations. The app allows you to communicate in real time or watch and listen later when you have a chance to respond. It keeps you in dialogue with your nearest and dearest throughout the day no matter what else is going on. It has the walkie talkie nostalgia, but none of the loneliness the call and no-response of old technology generates. You decide which is better.