With the first update coming soon to the iBlipper app, we’ve been looking at the more neanderthal scrolling ticker or marquee applications. You’ll likely be happy to know we’re adding the ability to tweak colors, although attempting to insure that only high contrast combinations are chosen so as not to jeopardize visibility.
Most ticker apps scroll text, Flash Banner is unique in presenting one letter at a time in vertical orientation. While highly visible at a distance, this approach doesn’t take advantage of the parallelism of the human brain. People don’t actually recognize “word shapes”, common letter pairs are identified at an almost shape like level and, more importantly, neighboring letters help speed the interpretation of their ‘hood.
Banner Free: FREE and the paid version Banner( $0.99) are stereotypical examples of the retro-LED device. Banner Delux brings cutesy animated background.
The list of scrolling ticker apps goes on… Scroll Me ($0.99),Scroll ($0.99), ScrollFX($0.99), Lux: ($0.99).
Shout Out $0.99 — one review claims it’s super fast. iBlipper can do many frames of animation within it’s shortest display duration, 150 milliseconds.
And yet more… Ticker ($0.99), and Marquee ($0.99), and LED it ($0.99) — and I probably missed a few.
Venturing further from the strict definition of the ticker, there’s Taxi Flasher which specializes in one type of message while aiming for high range visibility, like iBlipper.
Also interesting is RSS Stand which creates a news screensaver out of your docked iPhone and
POV Air Writing which creates a persistence of vision (POV) when you wave your iphone around in a very dark space.
It’s amazing how the iPhone is creating interesting use cases for a gadget in areas of life that were previously untouched! Stay tuned for iBlipper v1.1, it’s the next generation of the marque.
