Wobble makes parts wobble — Apple approves
By Gareth Powell
A group of Australian developers have created an iPhone or iPod Touch (excellent name in this case) add-on the lets you add wobble to photos of real breasts. While this may not be seen as an artistic breakthrough in tasteful photography it certainly has its followers.
Now it has the official Apple stamp of approval. At least Apple are offering it as an odd-on.
To show you exactly how to do it there is a YouTube video which hows that setting up wobble takes a small amount of work but the result is, if you like this sort of thing, somewhat entertaining although very sexist.
Initially Apple declined the iBoob iPhone Application on the grounds that it was indecent. But protests of indecency at Apple have to be taken against a background of commercial reality. The iBoob demo on YouTube got over a million views.
Apple, realizing there is a serious commercial demand for wobbly boobs on the iPhone and the iPod Touch and that they as a company it might be standing in the way of a major art movement (as it were) changed its stance. But, of course, it had to be improved to become respectable.
Whereas iBoob was animated and very limited in the areas to which it could be applied the new Wobble Application will make any body part wobble in a realistic 3D manner. Which means you could argue, just, that it is not longer sexist.
Not an argument one would wish to maintain in court.
Wobble costs $0.99 and is now not confined to breast wobbling. Any number of body parts can take part which is going to lead to some seriously revolting pictures. Gizmodo has the original YouTube entry which gives the idea extremely well.
You take a photo of anybody using the inbuilt iPhone camera. Then using the Wobble Application you position the round Wobble region overlays on the photo, then tap preview.
Shaking the phone up and down, side to side or even in a small circle gets the selected areas wobbling. Wobble will work with any photo either taken by the user or saved from the web or email.
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January 17th, 2009
I used to buy your Internet magazine Gareth. Loved it, and then it stopped arriving at the local newsagent. I assume it’s no longer produced? I see you’ve found somewhere else to write about the things that interest you.
January 18th, 2009
The problem with the magazine was that it was monthly and would be put on display at a newsagents for 2.5 days. And that was it. Subscriptions do not make financial sense for anyone. So Brenda and I decided to call it a day before we ended up in the workhouse. I still miss it and, even more, miss the friends it made me through the readers.