Only a week after pledging my allegiance to Android, Apple is making it terribly hard for me to hate them. With one frivolous app (and my complaints from last week) they might tempt me to eat the forbidden fruit. While the app is not an Apple product, it is only available on iPhone, like many other awesome apps (refer to rant from last week again).
Cycloramic, plus Siri who tells me where to hide bodies and score weed, makes the iPhone one-step closer to a human teenager, back-talking and in the near future walking away to look wide-eyed at newer iPhones in store windows, although she doesn't seem to have any sex drive.
Cycloramic allows your iPhone to take 360 degree videos. ON. ITS. OWN. Without the support of a tripod, kickstand or invisible string. Instead the app makes the phone vibrate at the perfect frequency while standing vertically to rotate ever so slightly and smoothly catching a 360 degree scene around you (just watch the video here).
While there are limitations -- the phone must be set up on a super smooth surface, such as a glass table -- I merely see the rest of the world changing for iPhone, not the iPhone changing for the rest of the world covered in rough terrain, like unpolished wooden furniture and concrete. Yuck.
In the future world I see every surface immaculately slippery. While the iPhone will thrive in this environment, humans might have some trouble without crampons. (I love this websites description of what someone could be doing to warrant crampons... But they forgot one: or clawing your way through the satiny world where sliding to work, no matter what the traffic conditions, is the only option.)
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