The creative marketing gurus over at Cupertino HQ’s have done it again. No one can doubt the impact the iPad has had in numerous industries. Ranging from healthcare, education, business and leisure, the iPad has countless applications and many more yet to be discovered.
The recent ad featuring the iPad 2 is entitled ‘Learn’. It focuses on learning, curiosity and learning whilst displaying some of the limitless applications of Apple’s Tablet. With that, I will let you watch the video and let the advertisement wash over you.
Researchers from the EHCI Research Group have been working on some pretty cool head-tracking technology to allow the iPad 2 to produce 3D images without the use of special 3D glasses. The front facing camera on the iPad 2 has been made to track the users head movement and then corresponding to the position of their head display a certain image so they end up with a 3D effect.
The demos shown in the video below are not anything mind blowing but with some more time I’d be interested to see what they and other developers produce using the technology.
North Point Community Church band are embracing the holiday season by using iPads and some apps to spread some festive joy through music. Using iPad apps like iGog, Guitarist and Pocket Organ the band has been able to reproduce some classic Christmas music such as Carol of the Bells, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Feliz Navida. Video below:
Kyle Lambert has been using his iPad to make an outstanding portrait of Beyonce Knowles and was nice enough to make a video of the process. I’m just astounded by the pure creativity shown by people using the iPad and while this may be old news to some I thought it was worth showing around to people who haven’t seen it.
