App Attack and Tech news

Snoop Dogg – or Snoop Lion, as the newly crowned rasta spliff-chugger is now known – has launched his own app. SNOOPIFY offers a selection of Snoop-themed stickers, which you can overlay on top of your existing photographs, then share in the bottomless sandpit of social media. Snoop’s personal form of photobombing is up for grabs on iPhone and Android.

Before Instagram there was Hipstamatic, and now the photodoodling service is launching a new app called OGGL. Designed more as an artistic community than a photo-editing tool, Oggl (for iPhone) lets users access the full library of Hipstamatic lenses and films for a fee, and encourages users to share only their best work.

A new app is all eyes. Boffins at the University of California are developing an app that lets blind or partially sighted people take decent snapshots. The app will use face detection and audio cues to reveal the amount of people in a shot, and will record an audio file, along with time, date, and GPS data, for later reference.

Under my skin
Pimp your iPad with a new peripheral from Logitech. Dressing a tablet is a bit like putting a waistcoat on a poodle – silly – but the Logitech FabricSkin Keyboard Folio looks pretty good. The company worked with fashion designers to create skins in a bunch of different colours with made-up names: Electric Blue, Urban Grey, Mars Red Orange, Carbon Black, etc. Fabrics include matte leather and woven cotton. As part of the range, Logitech has launched a Bluetooth keyboard also made from fabric, turning your iPad into a hipster’s hang-out. The Logitech FabricSkin Keyboard Folio for iPad will set you back €149.99.

Vroom to roam
Gran Turismo, Sony’s car series, is celebrating 15 years in the fast lane. To mark the anniversary, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi visited the Silverstone Circuit in England to talk about the future of the franchise, which launched in 1997. The ultimate game for customisation fiends, GT has struck deals with car manufacturers such as BMW, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, KTM, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Toyota. Nissan PlayStation GT Academy, meanwhile, pits the fastest GT gamers from around the world against each other.
Roar that meets the eye
For ruck’s sake! A new videogame is set to bring some of rugby’s greats together. Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour is coming out just in time for the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour – a rugby union team made up of players from the Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh squads. Amongst the 37-strong team are local heroes that include Cian Healy, Rob Kearney, Paul O’Connell, Jamie Heaslip, and Conor Murray. The game, coming soon to Xbox 360, PS 3 and PC, will let you help the Lions maul their way to the top.