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Dive into the world of sound with these interactive app-tivities.
Just how much does your brain functionality affect what you hear? Your gut reaction to that question might be “not a lot,” but the staff at the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum in San Francisco, asks you to reconsider that position with its new Sound Uncovered app for iPad. According to the Exploratorium, you ultimately owe your sense of hearing “not so much to your two ears as to what’s between them.”
But the Exploratorium team doesn’t want you to just take their word for it—they want you to discover this for yourself, which is why they’ve released a fun, interactive app that digs deeper into the world of sound.
Sound Uncovered is a free app available for the iPad and iPad mini running iOS 6 or later. It’s designed like an interactive magazine, similar in style to the Exploratorium’s previous iPad app, Color Uncovered. This app features articles, videos, sounds (of course), and interactive experiments to help users of all ages engage with sound, science, and how the two intersect. The app isn’t meant to be a museum companion app, so science enthusiasts everywhere can enjoy what the app has to offer.
The app is gorgeous, easy to navigate, and fun to play with. Even though it’s a sound app, it’s very visually interesting, with lots of high-res photography and interactive images. Getting started is very easy—just open it up, and you’ll see a table of contents. You can jump directly to any one chapter by tapping its link in the table of contents, or you can swipe through the app page-by-page. If you want to jump around while you’re on a specific page, just double-tap anywhere on the page and you’ll see a navigation layer at the bottom of the screen (a swipe-able list of the pages).
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