I just spotted this tonight, and thought I’d give you all a quick heads up on it. When you thought you’d exhausted every little thing you could perform with your iPhone, you find something you missed. There are many uses for your iPhone’s microphone, but this one is quite a bit different to the others. App developers have realised that the microphone can actually pick up air being blown through it, and this is the basis of Ocarina.
Ocarina developed by Smule is a 59p/$0.99 electronic synth flute for iPhone. Basically you blow into your iPhone, and use the touch screen to control the pitch of the sound by covering virtual holes -and if you thought this was just a fly-by-night gimmick, then think again … (more…)