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.The Creators Project [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
We know you simply can’t get enough of our Creators videos and articles (hey, we can dream, can’t we?), and now you can download our official app to tap into The Creators Project on the go. You can watch videos, find out what we got up to at Coachella, see what events we’ll be bringing to a city near you on our global tour, and read the latest news from the blog—all while going about your day-to-day. With this little miniaturised version of our site, you’ll never find yourself without some creative inspiration. It’s free to download too, so you might as well go download it right now.
Envisioning [iPad]Ok, so this app hasn’t actually been made yet and is but a twinkle in Filip Chudzinski’s eye, as well as a concept outlined on hisBehance page, but it looks so awesome we had to write about it anyway. The app will look at the human/machine relationship in sci-fi movies, like the famousMinority Reportcomputer interface, and sounds like a sci-fi fan’s wet dream. You can scroll through the imagined worlds of sci-fi’s past, tapping on inventions that intrigue you and getting information about the technology in the film, as well as an outline of what’s fact and fiction. Now you can explore the details that are usually the reserve of speculation on dedicated geek forums. Instant geek cred!Bla | Bla | Bla [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]There’s nothing more intriguing to the human brain than a face. We’re hardwired to find faces instinctively fascinating and look to them to warn us whether someone is a friend or foe, so we’re apt to find them everywhere. Just look at the popularity of emoticons :p So it comes as no surprise that we’ve fallen for this sound reactive app where two-tone faces made from simple shapes gurn at you in time with the music, visualizing the oscillations in a way even a baby can enjoy. It was developed as part of a design exercise called “Parametric Mask,” which introduces students to the procedures of basic design and programming.NodeBeat [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]And from visualizing sound to creating sound from visuals, we give you this “experimental node-based audio sequencer and generative music application.” More than anything, it’ll be a calming oasis in the chaos that is a typical day in a modern city. If it all gets too much, as it inevitably does, just plug in your earphones and sculpt some sounds by moving around the nodes on the screen, simply making music and letting the ambient chimes wash over you. Until your boss tells you to stop messing around and get back to work, that is.Google Docs [Android]
And from time-wasting to practicality, this app gives us no excuse not to update those Google Docs everyone relies on. It’s got a bunch of handy features, such as the ability to search for and filter through documents from any Google account, edit documents on the fly and save them online, or share docs with phone contacts and upload them to Gmail. Perhaps the most interesting and useful feature is the ability to take a picture of some printed text with your phone, then automatically convert it into a Google document.
We know you simply can’t get enough of our Creators videos and articles (hey, we can dream, can’t we?), and now you can download our official app to tap into The Creators Project on the go. You can watch videos, find out what we got up to at Coachella, see what events we’ll be bringing to a city near you on our global tour, and read the latest news from the blog—all while going about your day-to-day. With this little miniaturised version of our site, you’ll never find yourself without some creative inspiration. It’s free to download too, so you might as well go download it right now.
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And from time-wasting to practicality, this app gives us no excuse not to update those Google Docs everyone relies on. It’s got a bunch of handy features, such as the ability to search for and filter through documents from any Google account, edit documents on the fly and save them online, or share docs with phone contacts and upload them to Gmail. Perhaps the most interesting and useful feature is the ability to take a picture of some printed text with your phone, then automatically convert it into a Google document.