Interactive picture book

Petting Zoo: simple, engaging interactive picture book from the delightful Christoph Niemann.

Jumboltron

People in LA recently gathered to create a giant, crowd-sourced Jumbotron with their iPads. Why? Why not?

Jumboltron reminds us of this fun project from MIT that used different kinds of devices to forge one big viewing screen: 

Evernote Peek

Evernote’s Peek app is a great example of innovation based on functionality — in this case, the “smart case” cover of the iPad 2.

Frisbee Rush – Mobile to Desktop/TV Game

Unit9 premiered a new gesture-based, multiplayer, mobile-to-desktop synced game called Frisbee Rush at a few weeks back and are now finishing the app to be released in the coming weeks. More details on vimeo.

Make Real Beats

Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!

Via Laughing Squid

Augmented Reality on Tablets?

Is there more potential for AR on tablets?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/17/a-little-augmented-reality-check-from-metaio/

Your iTunes Library in Outer Space

Planetary, a new app for iPad from Bloom Studio, Inc., allows you to travel through a solar system made up of your iTunes library — imagine all your albums as planets! Your favorite artists orbiting in their own universe! Celestial technology at its best.

Ben the Body Guard

There’s been an amazing trend growing with HTML5 + Javascript, due to the growing penetration and use of iPhones and iPads which can’t serve Flash sites.  This site is an example of what can be done without Flash, that would be visible on an iPhone or iPad.

If this is something rogue iApp developers are using to advertise their $1.50 apps then, daaaaayuuumn we could do some serious damage rock’n this kind of awesome: http://benthebodyguard.com/

Contributed by Curtis Steckel

Projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform

Projeqt aims to enable people to share their stories by providing a simple way to create a website viewable on any device. TBWA created the publishing tool and used it to build their own website.

iPad Light Painting

Following their “Making Future Magic” creative initiative, the London-based agency Dentsu and the design agency BERG developed this impressive method of using iPads to create moving typography. The short film features animated light shapes and words that travel playfully through the dark urban landscape.

Via The Huffington Post