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Byte The App: 5 Must See Apps Of The Week 7/7

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.

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.

CamBox [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Ever wanted to be a beatboxer but found you couldn’t quite get your vocally-conjured rhythm stylings to resemble anything other than the sound of someone coughing up an internal organ? Well, you don’t need great vocal percussion skills in the age of the app, you just need CamBox. Make a sound, store it in a box, play the boxes and you are on your way to beatbox stardom, providing you can mime pretty good. Or, alternatively, record your friend’s drunken mutterings and play them back to him the morning to serenade his hangover. On a loop. All day.

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iDroste [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]

Life would be infinitely better if it were infinite. Like one of those recursive Escher drawings where a picture keeps on endlessly repeating itself like a mirror staring at itself in the mirror. Perhaps the world really is like this but we just can’t see it with our limited nervous systems. To make up for that crushing shortcoming you can try this app, which will turn your boring images into representations of the eternal.

GIF Shop [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]

In case you missed the memo: GIFs are cropping up everywhere this year. Maybe someone should make a

GIF

-related Kinect hack and take over the digital world like Lawnmower Man tried to? They’d certainly have a good chance, such is their combined ubiquity. Anyway, this week we’ve already witnessed GIFs trying to

break into the real world

and now they’re taking over our smartphones. This app has simple usability—you shoot some footage of whatever you want, then you choose your desired frames by tapping the screen, adjusting the speed and “loop mode”, and you’ve got yourself a

GIF

.

Songify [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
You’re probably familiar with the Gregory Brothers and their quest to autotune the world using their YouTube channel schmoyoho. They’re viral celebs who kind of feed on viral celebs, and this is their tie-in app, which they provide the music for. It allows users to speak into the mike on their phone and—ta-dah!—hear it transformed into the magic of song. Below is their Auto-Tune the News #2 for that one person’s great-grandmother who’s never heard them before.

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Third Eye [Android]

OK, so this game involves vampires but don’t run away just yet, these aren’t the glittery dullards from the tween movies. Instead, these vampires are the sort of demons who do reenactments of

LOTR

battles on the weekends. Plus, the game itself involves augmented reality and takes place in the real world, using facial recognition software so you can hold your phone up to someone’s face to tell whether they’re a vampire or a slayer (I guess they’ve found a workaround for sunlight then?).