Category Archives: Tech

Podcast-ScreenNow-Playing-Screen

Podcast apps are the new Twitter clients of the iOS world – they’re where all the interesting design and user interfaces are happening right NOW..

Network, built by Dublin based engineer/designer Andrew Conlan is a great example of the new crop of apps that take full advantage of everything iOS 7 has to offer.

Network has a slick, minimalistic interface that fits in beautifully with iOS7. The app really gets to the core of what you want from a podcasting app – listening to the content as quickly as possible with minimal interference and setup. Everything in the app can be accessed with a few quick, intuitive gestures.

The app is also very conscientious when it comes to downloading new episodes – it’ll wait until there is wi-fi instead of gorging on your 3G data.

Network is available on the App Store at €2.99.

Andrew has kindly given us 5 copies to give away to the fastest clickers:
Network Token 1
Network Token 2
Network Token 3
Network Token 4
Network Token 5

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post. We have some guidelines on submissions.

True-Love-Tester-Bra bra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Wd831gUt4#t=74

Japanese lingerie company Ravijour’s True Love Tester Bra is equipped with sensors that monitor the wearer’s heart rate and vital stats along with the secretion of Catecholamine hormones – purportedly released ‘only when a woman is truly in love’.

A companion smartphone app monitors all variables and wirelessly unhooks the bra if it detects the real deal.

Seems legit.

ohgizmo/cnet

birds-1
https://vimeo.com/78188069

Artist Dennis Hlynsky, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, records footage of bird flight and murmuration, then edits it with After Effects to highlight individual flight paths.

There’s no digital animation or layering, just a sort of temporary time lapse from which the natural pattern of flight paths emerge.

Many more videos of his work here, including the trails of insects, ducks and other animals.

colossal