Quick Look – Terminate Me
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Terminate Me is a new free app that combines two of my favorite things- Terminator movies and iPhone apps that let you do fun things with photographs.
The app’s description is pretty sraight forward…
Turn yourself into a terminator. This app is simple and quick. Begin by taking a headshot photo or importing one from your camera roll. After aligning it with the in-app grid, touch different parts of the face to reveal the terminator endoskeleton beneath. There are multiple levels of damage, so you can create unique images each time. Once you have finished, save and share your new "terminated" photo with all your friends.
Simple enough…
Terminate Me is a new free app that combines two of my favorite things- Terminator movies and iPhone apps that let you do fun things with photographs.
The app’s description is pretty sraight forward…
Turn yourself into a terminator. This app is simple and quick. Begin by taking a headshot photo or importing one from your camera roll. After aligning it with the in-app grid, touch different parts of the face to reveal the terminator endoskeleton beneath. There are multiple levels of damage, so you can create unique images each time. Once you have finished, save and share your new "terminated" photo with all your friends.
Simple enough…
To use it you simply take a picture from your camera roll or snap a new one,
You then line up the image with the grib provided by the app so that the eyes and mouth are in the proper position. Then, when you are ready, you begin to tap the picture in various places to reveal the "endoskeleton" residing beneath the "terminator’s" "skin".
I tried it with a variety of images- myself, my wife, my niece and nephew, (NO, these are the stock images from the app- I’m not posting ANY of them here since I like it when my family talks to me) and it works pretty well.
The result is… terminator-ish.
Basically, the app is a one-trick version of one of my iPhone favorites, Juxtaposer, which allows you to overlay one image on another and "erase" parts of the top image, thereby "revealing" parts of the bottom one.
In this case the "bottom" image that gets revealed is the Terminator. It is a neat use of this technology/functionality and, unfortunately if part patterns hold true, we will now see dozens of similar one-trick Juxtaposer apps appearing in the App Store. ("Turn your friends into a gorilla", "Turn your friends into an old man…" you get the idea.TRUST ME.. we’ll be seeing a lot of this.)
What is most striking to me about this app is the briliant use of a real iPhone app to advertise a movie/product. We’ve seen it before but this is among the most creative and slick ones I have seen. And they aren’t hiding the real purpose of the app. Every screen of it as you use Terminate Me is an ad for the movie. Even the description takes advantage of the free ad space provided my Aple since it reads…
The year is 2018. Judgment Day has come and gone, leveling modern civilization. An army of Terminators roams the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. But small groups of survivors have organized into a Resistance, hiding in underground bunkers and striking when they can against an enemy force that vastly outnumbers them. Controlling the Terminators is the artificial intelligence network Skynet, which became self-aware 14 years earlier and, in the blink of an eye, turned on its creators, unleashing nuclear annihilation on an unsuspecting world. Only one man saw Judgment Day coming. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human existence: John Connor (Christian Bale). Now the world is on the brink of the future that Connor has been warned about all his life. But something totally new has shaken his belief that humanity stands a chance of winning this war: the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger from the past whose last memory is of being on death row before awakening in this strange, new world. Connor must decide whether Marcus can be trusted. But as Skynet adapts new strategies to end the Resistance forever, Connor and Marcus must find common ground to take a stand against the onslaught—to infiltrate Skynet and meet the enemy head-on. The film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language.
Smart! Creative! Fun! And a reminder that 1 billion apps later, the iPhone dominates the space and the App store has created a whole new paradym in mobile apps AND advertising. At least the app is free…
Get it HERE.
