Help me name my new iPhone development company

December 18, 2008 8:19 PM

Help me name my new iPhone development company!

I'd like to have a cool biologically-inspired name (just cuz I really dig biology).

Thanks for your help!

posted by mpls2 to Work & Money (20 answers total)

Cell.
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:26 PM on December 18, 2008

Have you eyeballed wikipedia's list of biology topics?

Probably stay away from synapse/etc. brain-word roots since the world of tech startup names is so oversaturated with those roots.

How about telophase?
posted by kalapierson at 8:34 PM on December 18, 2008

Anagenesis
(an-uh-jen-eh-sis)
A pattern of evolutionary change involving the transformation of an entire population, sometimes to a state different enough from the ancestral population to justify renaming it as a separate species; also called phyletic evolution.
posted by lee at 8:38 PM on December 18, 2008

More here
posted by lee at 8:39 PM on December 18, 2008

iNzyme
posted by netbros at 8:41 PM on December 18, 2008

Biology/Medicine + iPhone = Spinal Tap?
posted by abstractdiode at 8:43 PM on December 18, 2008

Best answer: Less geek more street.

Saliva
So good, you'll drool.
posted by 913 at 8:48 PM on December 18, 2008 [1 favorite]

AbiOgenesis.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:31 PM on December 18, 2008

iPhone Development Company!

(80% serious, if there's no trademark problem, which there likely would be)
posted by holycola at 10:03 PM on December 18, 2008

ion – more physics than biology, but a nice sounding play on the "i" theme, but without hitting you over the head with it...aren't we all tired of this iCrap anyway?

Intelligent Development – The ID to your IT

Cellapagos IT Land

Phonological Awareness – again, more linguistics than biology, but could work.
posted by iamkimiam at 11:26 PM on December 18, 2008

Can the OP talk a little bit about what sort of projects they are interested in having their company focus on?

Is it Business, games, or social networking or what?
posted by gryftir at 12:46 AM on December 19, 2008

phoneI ("putting the since in sincerity")
posted by davemee at 1:21 AM on December 19, 2008

Response by poster:
Can the OP talk a little bit about what sort of projects they are interested in having their company focus on?

Personal productivity software, with an emphasis on data collection and visualization
posted by mpls2 at 8:09 AM on December 19, 2008

Since you're into visualization, I like Vesalius (google images from his books). He's a good patron saint of making the invisible visible.

Some other random nonsense from biology courses:
Hybrid Vigor
Electrophoresis (seems too long... and hard to spell!)
Ribosome ("Powering your cells!")
V1 (the first visual cortex... it's like the hardware of sight; pixels, not vectors)
posted by zpousman at 9:21 AM on December 19, 2008

Fatfinger.
posted by pantsonfire at 12:13 PM on December 19, 2008

S'more ProGrahmming. Your logo could be a cartoon campfire.
posted by Brettus at 12:47 PM on December 19, 2008

^ That is a horrible idea, I apologize.
posted by Brettus at 12:47 PM on December 19, 2008

WeAllPhone
posted by bkeene12 at 9:06 PM on December 19, 2008

please mr. jobs don't ruin me in a fit of pique, Inc.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:55 PM on December 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

I also thought of Ribosome like zpousman. It's the assembly center for protein precursors analogous to a software development company. Though I could see how Saliva might be easier to brand on a website.
posted by junesix at 9:51 AM on December 21, 2008