Virtual fish in a multi-touch pond
Little move than a year ago Microsoft announced their table computer called Surface sporting multi-touch screen operation. Great technology, but I thought the initially proposed applications were unimaginative. I was challenged to think up something better. I imagined a virtual fish pond (http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3049&PN=3).
Pet the fish, push them around, ripple the water, feed them jalapeno poppers. Aside from the poppers, The Blimp Pilots (http://theblimppilots.com/The_Blimp_Pilots/Koi_Pond.html) made that idea a reality with Koi Pond (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286420263&mt=8)... for the iPhone.
Naturally, I had to download it, and except for the lack of commercials, it's exactly what I envisioned. Oh, and it's also the #1 paid app in the App Store. So what I thought would be a killer app for Microsoft Surface has arrived as a killer app for Apple's iPhone. That's weird, right? I should start a blog category called "Great minds think alike". (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20minds%20think%20alike)
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Virtual fish in a multi-touch pond
posted by Sumocat at 8/17/2008 10:15:00 PM
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