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ICTP's Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) is pleased to announce
the release of its new, free iPhone application "EyApp".
EyApp enables your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to make a video
composed of a series of captured images along with simultaneous
audio recording. With just the press of a button, the App
automatically captures images at intervals ranging from 5 to 20
seconds (or manually by the user) and then synchronizes the images
with a continuous audio signal.
The resulting recording is a smaller size compared with
traditional video (HD or standard resolution) because the still
frames can be processed by the highly-efficient compression
algorithms used by the H264 movie format found in modern mobile i
devices.
The film is then ready to be shared immediately or, when saved on
a device's photo/movie gallery, can be further edited with other
Apps, shared by email and rich-media messaging systems or via
social networking Apps, or transferred to a computer. EyApp makes
it easy to create personal recording archives as well as to share
them via YouTube.
SDU developed the app with education in mind. "With EyApp,
students can record a lecture at any time for their own purposes,
or for sharing with colleagues or friends, instead of losing
attention taking notes on paper," said SDU coordinator Enrique
Canessa, who created the app with colleagues Carlo Fonda and Marco
Zennaro. He added, "With the EyApp recording available immediately,
students no longer need to wait for the appearance of an
institutional recording that may or may not be published after some
time."
SDU have been pioneers in using mobile technology in new ways to
deliver scientific education to the developing world, where about
70% of mobile phone users live. The new EyApp is one of the first
applications to create educational content on a mobile phone, and
could make a significant impact in regions such as Africa, one of
the world's fastest developing e-learning markets.
EyApp is available for download on the iPhone App
Store.
An Android-based version of Eyapp, named andrEyA, is currently
under development. For further information please contact SDU at
sdu@ictp.it.
