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Dig Into Popular Science With PopSci Interactive

This new interactive app brings videos of inventors discussing their inventions in depth to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners.

Dig Into Popular Science With PopSci Interactive
By Rob LeFebvre
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Popular science

Popular Science has been around since 1872. It might come as no surprise, then, that the magazine that's been celebrating science and technology for the general reader for that long might be one of the first that starts using an iPhone or iPad to link to videos and other interactive features.

Over the past six years, Popular Science has dedicated their June issue to the top inventors of the past year, publishing articles that explore the inventions and the inventors that created them. This year, they've released an interactive, universal iOS app that can be used in conjunction with the paper issue.

Once you've downloaded the app, simply aim the camera of your iPhone or iPad at a special icon on the pages of any of the inventor articles and the app will play back specially recorded videos with the inventors who explain their world-changing inventions. Slick, huh?

PopSci Interactive is a free, universal app and is available in the App Store now.

Rob LeFebvre
Rob LeFebvre
Dad. Mac head. Ukulele nerd. Gamer. Rob lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and commutes daily to the intarwebs to edit and write about iOS, Mac, books, and video games. He is currently employed as the editor at 148Apps, the best gosh-darn iPhone site this side of Mars, and contributes freelance to various other sites, including Cult of Mac and VentureBeat. Somehow he still finds time to play in a Disco band, raise two amazing kids, and hang on to his day job.