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My Dream App winners announced
by Jordan Running Oct 26th 2006 at 11:55AM
We haven't been following the My Dream App contest as closely as our pals at TUAW, so in case you're not up to speed, here's the scoop: My Dream App is an "event where 24 finalists compete for a chance to have their dream app made into reality." At the contest's outset, people from all over the world submitted their ideas for the program of their dreams, and from those people a pool of 24 contestants was assembled by a panel of judges. Then those 24 were whittled away over five rounds by judges, many of whom could be called celebrities, like Steve Wozniak, Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, J. Allard, and Merlin Mann. Yesterday the final eliminations were made and the three finalists, whose ideas will be made into Mac apps, and who will get royalties on said apps, were revealed. The three winners and their dream apps were:
3rd Place: Michael Yuan - Cookbook. "The ultimate cookbook application, with online grocery shopping, thousands of recipes, Leopard voiceover technology integration, shopping list sharing, and more."
2nd Place: Farzad Sadjadi - Portal. "File syncing from the future. Sync folders and documents between Macs effortlessly and watch transfer progress through a cool, highly visual wormhole user interface."
1st Place: Cameron Westland - Atmosphere. "A virtual window to the outdoors for your desktop. View a virtual representation of your area's weather when too busy to go outside."
All of the the runners-up are also worth checking out (especially if you're looking for ideas for your next app), and all of the finalists and runners-up will be getting some pretty cool prizes.
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Alessandro said 12:06PM on 10-26-2006
For Windows users who like the Atmosphere idea, you'll be happy to know that it already exists.
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sphetr2 said 2:51PM on 10-26-2006
Wow. The wormhole used is stolen from a lightwave 3d tutorial:
http://www.lwg3d.org/v3/tutorials.php?id=102
Can they do that?
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icerabbit said 11:22AM on 10-27-2006
I guess the rub here is that it is done in public. It is not uncommon that people use an 'available' image to present a visual idea of something they want to see created. If you are not a designer or photographer and/or don't have access to the right tools ... your first resort is google images search.
Maybe the guy contacted the creator of the tutorial or disclosed it somewhere in the process of creating the visual rendering.
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Mike Harris said 12:06PM on 10-27-2006
Sphetr2, while I don't know for certain that they are not planning to steal for the final product, there's no reason to assume they will — the items pictured are merely mockups; one aspect of the "prize" is actually having the application you visualized built. I assume they'll build a wormhole uniquely their own when they actually create the application.
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