Archive for July 3rd, 2009
The vOICe (Version 0.68 beta)
The vOICe for Android translates live camera views into sound that you hear via your phone's speaker or headset, thus targeting augmented reality for the totally blind through sensory substitution and synthetic vision. The vOICe uses pitch for height and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Includes a talking color [...]
China Mobile App Store Sneaks Out
China Mobile isn’t projected to offer an App Store to its nearly 500 million subscribers until September, but the Mobile App Store website (mmarket.com) was found up and running today. Mostly with broken links, sure - but the implications are humongous. China Mobile is launching their “OPhone” later this year which is slated [...]
Secrets (Version 1.4.2)
Secrets for Android is an application to securely store and manage passwords and secrets on your Android phone. It uses techniques like strong encryption and auto-logout to help ensure that your secrets remain safe (assuming you use a good password!). Context-sensitive tips guide you along through its operation, making it easy to use. Read more [...]
Enabling the Ecosytem: ABBYY, Part Two
Enabling the Ecosystem is a series of interviews with those people and firms that are helping to build the overall Android ecosystem. Today we wrap up the interview with Rick Pierson of ABBYY’s Mobility Group. AG: How accurate are the recognitions? RP: The accuracy rate depends on two factors; the camera and the photographer. The camera [...]
Illusion Labs Releases Full Version of Labyrinth
Illusion Labs has announced the full version of their popular Labyrinth game with over 1,000 levels. Also available is a feature that gives users the ability to create custom levels using an online level editor. The free version of the classic wooden maze game involving balls, holes, and tons of frustration has been downloaded over over 500,000 [...]
