If you’re anything like me, you often sit around and wonder what the people and animals you know look like with their skin and musculature pulled off to reveal the screaming skulls beneath. Unfortunately, pulling the faces off of actual living creatures to stare at their skeletons tends to be considered, as I understand it, somewhat declasse amongst the bourgeoise, so until society reconsiders its values, there’s this: the Skulls app by Simon Winchester.
Using the same interactive book format pioneered by Touch Press for other great apps like The Elements and Solar System, Skulls does exactly what it says on the tin: lets you check out the brain bones of over 300 different animals in a glorious 360 degrees, all taken from the collection of taxidermis Alan Dudley.
Honestly, I love it. My only problem is the price: a heady (wokka!) $13.99. Should it really cost so much? Isn’t the plucking of petals from a pretty flower blossom the pleasure nature gives us for free, and shouldn’t it also be, the skull? But Dr. Tarantula says I must not ask such questions anymore, for down that path lies madness.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
3 responses to “Gorgeous New App Gives You Over 300+ Skulls To Play With On Your iPad”
We have really become spoiled if we think $14 is a high price tag for a software application. Consider what this would cost in published book form and not be interactive or updatable.
petals, not pedals.
TouchPress stuff is always pricey.
Thanks for the homonym spot. Fixing.