Application Turns iPhone Into Theremin

Posted on Oct 9th 2008 10:00AM by James Sullivan
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If there's something psychotic about the need to be first on your block with the latest technology, now there's software that fits your psychosis with its own soundtrack. A company called Leisuresonic has designed an application, called Cosmovox, that will turn your iPhone into a pocket theremin.

The theremin is the strange, sliding-pitch instrument heard in old science fiction classics like 'The Day the Earth Stood Still.' Notoriously difficult to play -- sound is transmitted by waving your hands around, but not touching, the instrument's antennae -- the theremin's eerie warble has inspired similar effects on the Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations' and the Portishead album 'Dummy,' to name two examples.

By engaging an existing built-in feature of the iPhone (you know, the old accelerometer), Cosmovox allows the user to approximate the sound of a theremin simply by waving his iPhone around. Guaranteed to make new friends in a movie theater.

Hey, it's a lot more fun than the last cell phone accessory to hit the market.

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