Seduce a Suicide Girl is the latest app from the popular alt-erotic website. Following the success of their previous Flip Strip application, the new offering is based on the classic choose your own adventure stories.

ZipCar announced that it was releasing an iPhone App back in July and it’s finally available.

For under a dollar Laan Labs is making measuring distances in a bat-like fashion entirely possible. iPhone app Sonar Ruler uses click sounds, or “sonar” pings, via the phone’s speaker then listens and measures the time it takes for the sound waves to return to the microphone.
The application gets technical taking into account air temperature and allowing the user to tweak units of measurement as well as sonar settings which can then be saved for measuring different environments. According to the app store description, sonic distance measurement can be done up to 60 feet.

Sonar Ruler Demo from cc laan on [...]

Short of integrating a breathalyzer into the body of the iPhone, Dutch brewing company Grolsch might have figured out the next best thing with their new “Walk the Line” app. Utilizing the iPhone’s motion-sensing accelerometer, the application tracks a user’s ability (or lack thereof) to refrain from weaving when attempting to walk a straight line.

Public radio has traditionally been one of the few outposts on the AM/FM dial for independent and innovative programming. The advent of streaming radio and podcasts has allowed a wider audience to [...]

Yesterday we showed you an iPhone application that overlays indicators pointing to the nearest London Tube stations upon the phone’s video field of view. TwittARound, a new augmented reality app from German developer Michael Zoellner, works in the exact same way—utilizing the iPhone 3Gs’ integrated compass in conjunction with GPS and video data to mix data with what we see. TwittARound provides a 360 degree view of tweets made in the vicinity, so that, ideally, they could act as “post-it notes for the world,” as Wired’s Charlie Sorrel puts it—you could not only see a tweet regarding a great sandwich [...]

Though much of the work being done in augmented reality has thus far been of the gimmicky, flashing, ad-centric sort—more proof of concept than truly functional—the clever iPhone developers at acrossair are putting it to fantastic use with their new app, Nearest Tube. Taking advantage of the iPhone 3GS’ integrated compass, Nearest Tube merges GPS, compass, and video camera data to create a real-time overlay of the position and proximity of, as the name implies, the nearest tube stations. The application is still pending Apple’s approval for the App Store, but the video below speaks for itself.

[via Tuaw]

Positioning itself as a sort of hybrid between podcasts and Twitter, RnSK Softronics‘ WorldVoice Radio iPhone app allows users to share short audio messages or musings. Users set up their own in-app station, which is categorized geographically and assigned a personal “frequency” identification, which can be supplemented with personal information and a unique icon if desired. This information is then made available in the app’s station directory, which users can browse and save selections from via a favorites list. Audio dispatches are recorded through the iPhone’s mic, with an obvious Twitteresque emphasis on brevity—though longer recordings can be imported from [...]

Antenna Audio Inc. has released a free application that takes iPhone users on a tour of about 250 pieces from National Gallery in London’s breathtaking collection. ‘Love Art’ not only presents the works in beautiful, high-resolution imagery, but lets users absorb the curated expertise of the gallery by way of videos, audio commentaries, and themed organization.

An iPhone can now become a kind of virtual vinyl record with Theodore Watson’s innovative app. His “Spinning Vinyl” program plays a virtual record faster or slower as you spin the whole phone at different speeds. Watch below.
Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo
[F.A.T via MAKE]

Ocarina is one of the most inventive iphone apps we’ve seen yet. Its makers claim it’s the “first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, making it even more versatile than the original [instrument]. Unlike other musical applications, there are no pre-compiled riffs so musicians will find unlimited opportunities for self-expression. Advanced options allow you to choose between diatonic, minor and harmonic scales.”
The genius thing is how it utilizes all the unique features of the iphone: Multi-touch, the integrated microphone, even using the internal gyroscope to control vibrato rate and depth. [...]