The Voice Fantasy iPhone App Will Have You Shouting All Night Long [Video]
It seems like an iPhone app which is named Voice Fantasy and requires you to shout in order to summon dashing heroes should somehow be dirty, but it’s actually an amusing game which you might enjoy on a dull evening. More »
Posted: November 2nd, 2010
at 6:10am by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Apple, Clips, Voice fantasy iphone app, Voice fantasy iphone game, app, apple iphone, apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, iphone app, video
No Angry Birds for WP7 Yet, Even if Microsoft Thought So [Angry Birds]
They’ve now removed the Angry Birds icon and passed it off as a mistake, but for a while yesterday Microsoft must’ve been quaking at the thought of Rovio dispatching the Angry Birds flock their way. More »
Posted: October 11th, 2010
at 7:20am by Kat Hannaford
Topics: Angry birds microsoft, Games, Microsoft, Rovio, Windows phone 7, Wp7 apps, Wp7 games, angry birds, app, apps, rovio mobile
All Palm Apps Temporarily 50% Off [Deals]
Woah! From June 18 to July 9, all apps in the Palm App Catalog will be half price. Pretty decent deal. [Pre Central via BGR] More »
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OpenWays makes your smartphone a hotel room key, provides a different kind of ‘unlock’
For years now, hotel chains have been toying with alternative ways to letting patrons check-in, access their room and run up their bill with all-too-convenient in-room services. Marriott began testing smartphone check-ins way back in 2006, and select boutique locations (like The Plaza Hotel in New York and Boston’s Nine Zero) have relied on RFID, iris scanners, biometric identifiers and all sorts of whiz-bang entry methods in order to make getting past a lock that much easier (or harder, depending on perspective). This month, InterContinental Hotels Group announced that they would soon be trialing OpenWays at Chicago’s Holiday Inn Express Houston Downtown Convention Center, enabling iPhone owners to fire up an app and watch their room door open in a magical sort of way. Other smartphone platforms will also be supported, and as we’ve seen with other implementations, users of the technology will also be able to turn to their phone to order additional services, extend their stay or fess up to that window they broke. There’s no word on when this stuff will depart the testing phase and go mainstream, but we’re guessing it’ll be sooner rather than later. Video after the break, if you’re interested.
OpenWays makes your smartphone a hotel room key, provides a different kind of ‘unlock’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 May 2010 01:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: May 30th, 2010
at 5:31am by Darren Murph
Topics: Chicago, Holiday Inn Express, HolidayInnExpress, Hotel, Hotels, InterContinental, OpenWays, RoomKey, Travel, app, cellphone, key, marriot, open ways, room key
iPhone in iPhone app is useless, but mesmerizing
Here’s the premise: you take a good old fashioned augmented reality setup, the likes of which we’ve seen all over the land, and attach a three-dimensional, rotatable iPhone to it. Not impressed yet, are you? Neither were we, but there’s some secret sauce to this one: you can actually launch apps on the simulated iPhone. That extra layer of interactivity makes the video after the break a lot more fascinating than it has any right to be, though it’s worth pointing out that we don’t think the apps are actually usable — they just give the illusion of launching. Anyhow, don’t wait around while all the cool kids are watching it, go have a gander yourself.
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iPhone in iPhone app is useless, but mesmerizing originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
