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An App For Wanderers Seeking Workspace In Cafés. Booktrack is a startup that seeks to revolutionize the reading experience through the creation of a whole new genre of e-books. The company’s technology pairs music scores and sound effects with text, automatically paced to the user’s reading speed, generating a synchronized soundtrack for e-books. Currently Booktrack is compatible with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, with plans to expand into Android apps. Paul Cameron, Booktrack’s co-founder and CEO explains the technology: Tens of millions of commuters around the world listen to a playlist that’s disconnected from what they’re reading—perhaps a sad song with an upbeat story. Now they can replicate a movie-like sound experience and fundamentally transform their reading experience. Check out a demo of the first synchronized soundtrack fully integrated in a new novel, ‘The Power of Six’ by Pittacus Lore (James Frey), published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Booktrack. Like? Meet The ‘Want’ Button For The Real World. Remember writing Christmas wish-lists to send to Santa in the North Pole? Well, Jack Widman has developed an iPhone app to apply that to everyday living called Want!. The app allows you to not only capture physical items you come across during the day but also “want” things such as “that haircut” or “a nap.” You can also set aside your favorites with the “Most Wanted” option. Two key points that make Want! A social app are its streaming feed and the option to connect the app to your existing social networks (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare). The feed puts up your friends’ “wants” or “Most Wanted Lists.” [via iTunes App Store]

WANT! PIM for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. AirRun for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. New App Can Diagnose A Concussion. A new app for the iPhone and iPad can help determine whether a person is suffering from a concussion. Developed by Dr. Jason Mihalik of the University of North Carolina’s brain injury research center, and Dr. Justin Smith of the Children’s National Medical Center, the Concussion Recognition & Response app involves a short checklist that can be used to decide whether the person needs to seek medical attention in under 5 minutes. The app guides users through a series of questions and can email the information to a doctor. It provides home symptom monitoring for post-injury follow-up, can track recovery to share with health care providers, and records the GPS location of each incident of documentation.

The app would be especially useful for athletes, coaches and parents whose children are involved in sports. Concussion Recognition & Response app [via Huffington Post] Patchlife - Sign up and refresh your memory. CardFlick Demo‬‏ The iPhone App That Can Identify A Tree By Its Leaf. This article titled “The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf” was written by Leo Hickman, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 6th May 2011 15.30 UTC To date, the world of mobile phone apps has largely left me cold.

Yes, I can see how you can easily lose an hour of your life – or more – to Angry Birds. But the most interesting and potentially useful developments I have seen so far are apps such as Shazam and RedLaser. The power to identify and recognise non-text based things such as images and music points to just how potent and useful mobile phones are becoming. It now appears that we could be about to reach a significant new landmark. Leafsnap promises something different: a joint effort by Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution in the US, it uses the same technology as face-recognition software to identity the species itself: Personally, I think this is a tremendously exciting development.

There is a slight lament to note, though. ‪ToyToyota - Backseat Driver‬‏ Wallet - make your phone your wallet.