Pay attention, Evil Panda. This might be the thing that makes you hack your iPhone.

Erica Sadun (instrumental in creating the first iPhone jailbreak) has created a killer app that listens to 5-6 seconds of a song from any speakers (radio, computer, Zune, etc), sends it off to a sound identifying service and sends back the name and album of that song. (more info at TUAW) Apparently this tech isn’t new but it’s pretty frikkin’ cool regardless. To me, it’s like magic. Arthur C Clark technology-as-magic kind of fun!

It’s Beta and available through the Installer App.