Singing Fingers, The Latest Cool ipad App

For all you haters out there who say the iPad is a useless piece of eye candy well you’re wrong. Can your BlackBerry make paintings sing? Didn’t think so.

“Singing Fingers” is headed up by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum of the MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group, and it allows you to fingerpaint on your iPad while the mic records whatever sounds are going on at the same time. Then, you can play back the sound by touching the paint, like a sort of voluntary synesthesia. It seems totally mad, ‘til you see the video.

Think of all the awesome stuff you could do with this. Obviously, the contemporary art world, which fetishizes anything colorful and loud, would have a field day with it. We picture a gallery full of iPads and a sign that says “Please touch.” DJs could make – and scratch – their own iPad records. It could be the future of kindergarten class. No more messy fingerpainting! Plus, kids love weird noises, especially their own! And inevitably, this will fall into the hands of some entrepreneurial stoner who will finally give the world the 21st-century equivalent of a Dark Side of the Moon laser show. This one is already a hit in the app download world, be quick before your friends try to impress you first.

The app is available here.

Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com