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Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video)
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.
Wow. This is awesome! I'm going to go out right now and buy an iPhone and this app, no matter how much it costs! I don't know where my life would be without this feature!
A toy for spinning a phone? A toy for spinning a phone???
This is the level of slashvertisement we get? I mean, maybe if there were a novel technology involved. A new algorithm, perhaps. But no we have a fucking toy for spinning a goddamn phone.
How do these slashvertisements keep getting worse?
Of course the videos are paid ads. It's one thing to put them put them out there as if they were stories, but please don't expect me to believe that you're just randomly interviewing the proprietors of nifty businesses because you have nothing better to do.
This is a very happy hobby. I find it tremendously amusing and so do many other posters. If you look at any of your recent Slashvertisements, you'll see that the number of people "sneering" and "being negative" outnumber those who aren't.
I find it strange that you'd resort to sad, pathetic insinuations - some bordering on slander - to deal with the ill will that you are generating by continuing to post these ill-disguised advertisements. As I said before, though, I doubt you really have much to say in the matter, though - Dice can easily find some other person to wander around and subject themselves to marketing spiels.