Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks ? Graffiti for Android

The other day I was perusing the Amazon App Store and noticed that Graffiti Pro for Android was available. I immediately downloaded (it?s free) and installed it on three Android devices. I?ve been mostly pleased with the results. To those of you that are not familiar with Graffiti, it?s a character recognition system that utilizes [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/10/09/teaching-a-new-dog-old-tricks-graffiti-for-android/

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As Mobile App Downloads Skyrocket, MP3 Rates Level Off

Our appetite for downloading apps is tremendous, and just seems to keep on growing, and yet our need to download other forms of digital entertainment isn’t nearly as staggering. Market intelligence blog Asymco found that the rate we’re downloading iOS apps at these days absolutely dwarfs iTunes music downloads, and crushes iBooks downloads. Only in [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/ios-app-download-rates/

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Can Afterfall: InSanity Disrupt The Gaming Ecosystem With This $1 Pre-Order Experiment?

afterfallThe game industry is in the middle of an interesting shift right now. We're at a point analogous to where the music industry was in the early 2000s: the product is only just becoming convenient enough for the mainstream to purchase and download online. Sure, people have done it for years, but the sales of online services, and the services themselves, are multiplying. As the pricing model for music changed with mp3s and iTunes, so the pricing model for games is in flux now. We've seen how Minecraft and the Humble Bundle have seized the opportunity presented by this unstable situation, and now we can add another potentially disruptive model to the list. Polish developer NEG is offering its upcoming sci-fi/horror game Afterfall: InSanity for only one dollar — but only if it gets ten million pre-orders. If they fall short of that goal, they're donating all the money to charity.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tM3uQ9q95g8/

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Is a Samsung Galaxy S III Already on the Way? [Rumors]

The Galaxy S II came out pretty recently, but Samsung no care—at least if this blurry, "leaked" slide's correct. Phandroid says what we've got here is a bona fide internal image of the next best Android for 2012. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3S4DTSnB4bY/is-a-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-already-on-the-way

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Konstruct for iOS creates generative augmented reality art with your voice

Konstruct generative augmented reality art for iOS
If you have an artistic temperament, but you weren't blessed with steady hands or an eye for color, Konstruct might be the app for you. Not only does the iPhone app let you produce generative art using words, warbles and whistles, but it also uses augmented reality to bring your artistic creation to life.

To get started, you first need to print out the Konstruct marker and place it wherever you'd like to create your AR sculpture -- it could be on your living room wall, or on the floor of your bathroom, it doesn't matter. Open the app, point your iPhone at the marker, and start making some noises! Once you're done, you can save your creation, or simply wipe the slate clean and start again.

The volume of your voice affects the size of the shapes that are drawn on the screen, and you can move your head around to alter the path of your 'brush' -- but to change the shape of your brush or modify the color palette you have to use a menu. Without knowledge of the app's internal workings, it's hard to say what the actual difference between whistling, talking and singing is -- and judging by the developer's affinity for whistling in the demo video (after the break), the app probably doesn't perform that much analysis on your input.

Still, Konstruct is just a prototype! A later version could do away with menus and rely entirely on the location, tonality, quality and amplitude of your voice -- and judging by the the words of the developer, James Alliban, there is definitely more in store for Konstruct: "The idea of transforming entire cities into user generated virtual art galleries really appeals to me. I see Konstruct as an early prototype that will hopefully be realised in this form in the future."

Download Konstruct for free from the App Store (iPhone 3GS and 4 only)

[Thanks to Richard for the tip!]

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Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks ? Graffiti for Android

The other day I was perusing the Amazon App Store and noticed that Graffiti Pro for Android was available. I immediately downloaded (it?s free) and installed it on three Android devices. I?ve been mostly pleased with the results. To those of you that are not familiar with Graffiti, it?s a character recognition system that utilizes [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/10/09/teaching-a-new-dog-old-tricks-graffiti-for-android/

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