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KES2010
App World Expo Shows
that the Possibilities Know No Bounds
A visitor is learning how to use the app from the booth manager
The Appworld Expo venue showed some of the most innovative
and impressive applications to date, with over 20 companies
participating. With a user population of over 440 million,
smart phones and the application or 'Apps' market,
which is what makes smart phones 'smart', is rapidly increasing.
Many of the apps displayed were games designed for
smart phones, but there were also many creative productivity
and information apps, as well as various platform services,
such as Moduad. One of these is the 'Finger Stomp' app from
Greysox, The Pot and Smartification. Designed for the iPad,
and in development for the iPhone, this tone enables the user
to pick their own 'stomp' sounds from a variety of everyday
objects such as shoes, garbage cans and chains. These instruments
are fully customizable, and could be displayed in any
way the user wants. The App was a joint development of three
different companies specializing in specific areas; sound, App
development and programming. Dongseo University developed
an Augmented Reality (AR) App, which combines the
smart phone scanning ability with digital imaging. In the App
'Pictomation', when a user scans a barcode on the picture
book, the display panel reads the information on the barcode
and projects a digital image. In the demonstration, a couple
could be seen dancing on a red carpet, which is actually the
page of the picture book. As the picture book is flipped, the
scanner reads a different barcode and another dance is performed
by the digital couple. These smart phone apps are only
bound by the human imagination.
58 KOREA IT TIMES | October 2010