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Will Knox – Lexicon [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Whether you like the music or not, this is another example of how musicians are using apps to broaden and enrich the release of new music. Obviously there’s the recent Biophilia album from Bjork, but we’ve also seen musicians releasing location-based responsive music apps, lip-syncing apps, augmented bands, and now a 5-track comic book EP, with the songs brought to life in the narrative of the comic. Album artwork may be a thing in decline, but this takes it to a whole new level. Aside from the awesome possibilities this new marriage of comics and music allows, it’s the perfect compromise for showcasing some artwork while having the music still available digitally. Everyone’s a winner.
Treasures of the Bodleian [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
It’s time for some literary chin-stroking. This app is a bibliophile’s wet dream and dives deep into the archives of the University of Oxford’s world-renown Bodleian Library. It makes available such literary, cultural and scientific treasures as Shakespeare’s First Folio, telegrams from the sinking Titanic, the Elements of Euclid, manuscripts in Jane Austen’s own hand, Isaac Newton’s Principia, the ‘Gutenberg Bible’ and plenty more. And it’s free, so you might as well download it. At the very least, it’ll balance out the Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja on your iPhone and make you look intelligent.
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