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.Sphero [iPhone, Android]This isn’t due for release until later in the year but it’s worth featuring because it just looksTHATawesome. Plus, they’re taking pre-orders, so you can get in ahead of the masses. Sphero, fromOrbotix, is a robotic ball that you control with your phone. The cost of the ball is around $129.99, so it’s not cheap, but it’s already got some real-world gaming apps where you can playbeer pong,office golfandmixed reality Pong—the plan is to develop AR gaming apps for it too. And, perhaps best of all, there’s also the KittyCam app (below) which allows you to tease your cat by controlling theLED-lit ball using the onscreen controllers and capture it all on video.OKITE [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
If, like some people, you struggle to get out of bed each morning (hey, you’re not a morning person, don’t worry), then you may find this app helpful. A big problem with alarm clocks is the option to snooze, it’s just too easy to hit the snooze button again and again, and with this free app that could be a thing of the past. The app synchronises with your Twitter account and if you hit that snooze button it starts posting random, embarrassing posts on your timeline. So, hopefully, the threat of Twitter mortification will get your sorry ass out of bed.
McSweeney’s [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
This is the free app of the publishing house which was founded by American author Dave Eggers, which publishes a quarterly literary journal too. The app’s been out for a while and features interviews, articles, even interactive art from Scott Snibbe, but just recently they’ve launched an exclusive comic from their sometime guest editor and comic book writer/artist Chris Ware. He wrote Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, a melancholy graphic novel about a socially awkward guy and his family history. The story for McSweeney’s is called Touch Sensitive, and you can read more about it here. Annoyingly, it’s only available for iPad (at 99 cents or 69p), but hopefully it’ll encourage him to do many more.Ready Steady Bang [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]This is a simple dueling game which you can either play in two-player or single-player mode. It all comes down to who’s got the fastest trigger finger as you take aim and lay waste to the dancing cowboy before you. As you progress through the game, you’re rewarded with a gallery of cute animations depicting a cowboy getting killed in numerous different ways.Nabit [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]If you’re somebody who either has sporty friends, or are yourself involved in all number of action sports, then this could be the photo app for you. The Nabit app records the exact moment your buddy flies through the air for that slam dunk or kick flip, then puts it in an action sequence so you can marvel at every detail afterwards. Or, alternatively, you can just capture every embarrassing moment of your friends falling over drunk. [via CreativeApplications.net]
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If, like some people, you struggle to get out of bed each morning (hey, you’re not a morning person, don’t worry), then you may find this app helpful. A big problem with alarm clocks is the option to snooze, it’s just too easy to hit the snooze button again and again, and with this free app that could be a thing of the past. The app synchronises with your Twitter account and if you hit that snooze button it starts posting random, embarrassing posts on your timeline. So, hopefully, the threat of Twitter mortification will get your sorry ass out of bed.
This is the free app of the publishing house which was founded by American author Dave Eggers, which publishes a quarterly literary journal too. The app’s been out for a while and features interviews, articles, even interactive art from Scott Snibbe, but just recently they’ve launched an exclusive comic from their sometime guest editor and comic book writer/artist Chris Ware. He wrote Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, a melancholy graphic novel about a socially awkward guy and his family history. The story for McSweeney’s is called Touch Sensitive, and you can read more about it here. Annoyingly, it’s only available for iPad (at 99 cents or 69p), but hopefully it’ll encourage him to do many more.
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