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Surprising things you can do on your iPhone

Dig up dinosaurs

24 Augmented Reality (AR) apps make the impossible appear right in front of you. ARcheology – Dig Up History (£4.99) is a great example of that. It puts dinosaurs under your floorboards, in the garden, in the park or anywhere else you can point your phone’s camera, so you can discover a T-rex under the terrace or a diplodocus under the dinner table.

The App Store is packed with great AR apps, with Mission To Mars AR enabling you to drive the Mars Rover; Civilisations AR bringing treasure directly to you; and Big Bang AR showing you the beginnings of the universe. And if you’d rather blow things up than blow your mind, there are AR

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