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Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the round-and-round-she-goes-where-she-stops-nobody-knows dept.

In a way, this app is nothing but a cute gimmick. There are many apps that allow you to make panoramic photos on an iPhone, not to mention the panorama feature built into iOS6 -- and plenty for Android, too. But Cycloramic makes your iPhone spin around while standing on edge (on a smooth surface), which is a fine stunt and a great party trick. And it's endorsed by Steve Wozniak, which is a boast few iPhone apps can make. He calls it "Unexpected, fanciful, and useful all at the same time!" Even if it had no practical value whatsoever, you might want to blow 99 cents on Cyclorama just to watch your phone make you dizzy. Most Android phones won't stand on edge. (Tim's won't and neither will mine.) So an Android version would require a stand. Or at least a pattern so we could make our own stands out of cardboard or sheet plastic. But that's a "maybe," and apparently not likely to come along soon. For the moment we'll just have to envy iPhone owners as their phones magically spin around, taking photos now and then as they turn.

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  1. Re:Slavertisement. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure iPhone is dying for users as is this app...

    OR (now stick with me here) this is technically interesting and geeky.

    (Not every article about a product or service is a Slashvertisment)

  2. Would require more than a stand... by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason this works is because the app knows exactly where the vibration unit is and where it behaves.

    If you had a stand for an Android phone the app would have to be calibrated for the stand, and for the exact model of phone you have.

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  3. Re:Are you seriously serious? by slackware+3.6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a cool toy not an advertisement. Try doing something cool youself instead of just being an ass.

  4. It's a righteous submission. by JoeCommodore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Both the article and the app, shows there's more possibilities in ordinary/unexpected things. Excellent hack.

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  5. Re:Panoramic - mainly indoors - meh by BasilBrush · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every time I go to a bar with friends.

    Not only is a handheld panorama incapable of taking a shot of people around a table, ANY kind of handheld panorama misses out the person who's taking the shot. Which is usually the phone owner.

    So it offers a little more than novelty. It offers a couple of things that were not possible with mobile phone panoramas before.