The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week. Submit your suggestions for next week in the comments below.Papercut [iPad]Interactive storytelling is just crying out for someone to do it right. And this app makes a promising start down the path of augmented reading by adding animations, audio, and other interactive elements to the reading experience. There’s no page turning, just scroll down and read, and prepare to be amazed as the app does the work usually left to your imagination—triggering music and visuals to help illustrate the text. What’s also interesting about it is that the authors of the stories are working with musicians and designers to create bespoke content specifically for the interactive experience, rather than adapting existing novels to this format.
If you’re a gamer of any description—causal or pale-skinned obsessive—you’ll know about SF2, the one fighting game to rule them all. And to further cash in on the series’ huge fanbase and popularity, Capcom have released this app, which includes three variations of the seminal game: The World Warrior, Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting. It also allows you to use Bluetooth so you can do two-player battles. It’s a total K.O.
Clibe [iPad]
The sketchbook gets digitized in this app, meaning you can draw, doodle, write, and do all the stuff that you’d casually do when you should be listening attentively in those all-important meetings. All your scribblings are then stored in the cloud so you can access them from anywhere and share with the world. As soon as the droning monotony of your boss’ voice gets to be too much, make like you’re taking minutes while secretly working on the next chapter of your great American novel. Or, more likely, aimlessly drawing spirals.Band Of The Day [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Don’t bother trawling through the music blogs looking for new bands to claim as your new fav—that’s way too laborious and time consuming. Instead, let technology do the ground work. Every day this app delivers a new band straight to your phone, with reviews and bios and everything you need to know about them to flex your music knowledge in front of your friends at the bar that evening. It even has an embedded music player. And it’s free to download. So let these guys curate the new bands and you do the listening, then claim you discovered them.
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Last Clock [iPad]A unique and wild variation on the traditional clock face, this app uses a slice of live video from the iPad2’s camera to present a “visual memory of the last 60 seconds, the last 60 minutes and the last 12 hours in a never-ending loop”. As time ebbs, footage is revealed in varying concentric circles, with different refresh rates to show the recorded space at different paces, making for a kind of reflection on the environment at levels imperceptible to the human eye. And it makes for nice visuals too. [viaCAN]Street Fighter II Collection [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
If you’re a gamer of any description—causal or pale-skinned obsessive—you’ll know about SF2, the one fighting game to rule them all. And to further cash in on the series’ huge fanbase and popularity, Capcom have released this app, which includes three variations of the seminal game: The World Warrior, Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting. It also allows you to use Bluetooth so you can do two-player battles. It’s a total K.O.
The sketchbook gets digitized in this app, meaning you can draw, doodle, write, and do all the stuff that you’d casually do when you should be listening attentively in those all-important meetings. All your scribblings are then stored in the cloud so you can access them from anywhere and share with the world. As soon as the droning monotony of your boss’ voice gets to be too much, make like you’re taking minutes while secretly working on the next chapter of your great American novel. Or, more likely, aimlessly drawing spirals.Band Of The Day [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Don’t bother trawling through the music blogs looking for new bands to claim as your new fav—that’s way too laborious and time consuming. Instead, let technology do the ground work. Every day this app delivers a new band straight to your phone, with reviews and bios and everything you need to know about them to flex your music knowledge in front of your friends at the bar that evening. It even has an embedded music player. And it’s free to download. So let these guys curate the new bands and you do the listening, then claim you discovered them.