Tech Buzz This has to be the new thing. With the recently released Facemouth app for iOS devices, you can take a photo or video of your mouth and insert it onto a variety of celebrities' and cultural figures' faces. The possibilities are endless. And can be somewhat disturbing. (What more could you want?) (via facemouth.com)
App shows scenes from movies based on where you're standing. This is genius.
TV Buzz More proof that all TV news co-anchors secretly hate each other.
Your favorite app just got a whole lot more gangsta. If only this was a real level.
http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/xwave-controls-iphone-grap...
What if you could see exactly what was going on inside your mind on the screen of your iphone? Well, you can’t, but the XWave might be the next best thing. This futuristic iphone app displays a graphical ball that you can raise by focusing your thoughts. Although this is not exactly a scientific instrument, if it’s any indication of interesting apps to come in 2011, they’re certainly on the right track.
Word Lens is a translation app for the iPhone that can translate signs using the camera in real time. It's an Augmented Reality app that uses “Optical Character Recognition,” which is a fancy way of saying “Magic.” (More info here.)
I'm not really sure this is all that practical, unless, of course, you enjoy eating your popcorn four kernals at a time, then this might be the app of your dreams. (Via)
Tech Buzz This'll blow your damn mind: Get yer buzzhole on yer iPhone! Mad props to the BF design team and the code magicians at Carrot Creative for whipping up this sparkly gateway to the buzz. Download it now at the iTunes App Store!
Tech Buzz Need a fridge magnet? There's now an app for that. Jailbreak Toys is selling sets of iPhone app magnets for 12.99 USD.
Amazing iPhone app. Loop it! [Ed Note: Oh, mais que c'est chouette! Super cool!]
Tech Buzz Although Apple bans porn from the iPhone, there are quite a few alluring apps that sneak by the censors. Everything from 'The Asian Boobs App' to yes the 'Latina Bikini Fart App'. Current TV's Ben Hoffman tests them out just for you.
The June 1st New Yorker cover was finger-painted by artist Jorge Colombo using the Brushes app on his iPhone. Overall it took him just an hour to draw the scene outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square, and for the process nuts, there's a corresponding video that shows every streak - from start to finish.
“Want to encourage your drug problem? There's an app for that!” (via Urlesque)
Sports Buzz Golf fans! Escape from your cubicle today and go directly to Augusta National with The Masters iPhone app. You can actually watch holes 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 live from the course, follow scoring, pairings and tee times and basically renew your obsession with Tiger Woods. Supposedly works on 3G, Edge and WiFi.
Tech Buzz Foursquare is the new Dodgeball, but with games and badges and stuff. You can also be a Mayor, which is why I'm going to play. So far it features 12 cities, but luckily, Austin is one of them—so all the SXSW-ers can play on the new iPhone app this very weekend.
“Kids” by MGMT played entirely on iPhones, using various musical iPhone apps. Much like being super-good at Guitar Hero, this performance is kind of impressive and kind of still not as cool as actually playing music.
Tech Buzz Pretty soon your iPhone will resemble your 3rd grade classroom. IGN sneakily posted some screens yesterday, and holy rattlesnakes does this game look cartoony or what?!
http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_703_iPhone_Apps.mp3
NPR profiles Brian Greenstone, a computer game designer who's adapted his work for the iPhone. He talks about how the iPhone app store created a level playing field for game designers. And how he's really rich now.