Airport Scanner has been downloaded more than 7 million times for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Data from the game will be used to power a Duke University study aimed at improving real-world luggage screening.

Airport Scanner on Vimeo

“Airport Scanner has been wildly popular on iOS devices, and we’re delighted to bring the game to Android users worldwide,” said Jameel Khalfan, who oversees publishing at Pocket Gems. Airport Scanner becomes the third launched title published by Pocket Gems.

“We’re stoked to bring Airport Scanner to Android this June; it’s such a great game that we simply couldn’t let just iOS users have all of the fun,” said Ben Sharpe, CEO of the Kedlin Company. “Pocket Gems has a successful track record of creating games that people love, and we value their expertise and appreciate their unique approach to publishing. They made it possible for us to bring Airport Scanner to the Android platform; without them we’re not sure it would’ve happened.”

In Airport Scanner, players operate a life-like XRAY baggage scanner and quickly identify illegal items such as bomb components, weapons and liquid containers over 3.4 ounces, while getting legit passengers through security on time.

Kedlin is working in partnership with Dr. Stephen Mitroff of Duke University’s Visual Cognition Laboratory to provide anonymous gameplay data to answer questions about real-world baggage screening that can’t easily be tested in the lab. With funding from the Transportation Security Administration, Mitroff has tried to further understand what makes one person a better visual searcher than someone else, and ultimately, improve airport security. Dr. Mitroff approached Kedlin earlier this year about a partnership, and the Android launch will provide Mitroff and his team with a trove of valuable data to further power their research.

“High accuracy during visual searches is critical for professionals like TSA officers and radiologists, as any missed target can have life-or-death consequences,” said Dr. Mitroff. “It’s vital to understand how individuals learn these skills best and what factors lead to accurate performance, and the data collected from Airport Scanner enable my team to assess and learn from hundreds of thousands of individuals on accuracy, response time, false alarms, the ability to avoid distraction, the ability to multitask and more.”

While you wait for the Android version, make sure to pick it up on iOS Airport Scanner.

The anniversary infographic highlights Blood Brothers’ tremendous performance over the last year with stats including:

· The cumulative playtime for players hitting 4400 years
· No. 1 top-grossing rank on Google Play in 33 countries
· Blood Brothers spent 7 months as a top-grossing app on Google Play
· Most popular heroes selected by players
· Among other data points!

A celebratory Blood Brothers video trailer for the game’s one year anniversary was created for your viewing pleasure.

Blood Brothers on YouTube

Make sure to check out Blood Brothers for free for Android, iPhone or iPad.

May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries, and Daniele Benegiamo, founder of UNAgames, hopes everyone around the world will enjoy his gift on this special day.

As this is not only a price drop but also an update, below you can find details of the new features.

Tapsteroids on YouTube

Technically, the game is now a Universal build with native support for both iPhone (5, 4S, 4 and 3GS) and iPad. They added also a preliminary native support for iPhone 5, on which they will continue to work on after this release. The gameplay has been enhanced too as follows:

• At the beginning of every match, an extra life can be earned.
• No more locked levels, now players can match their skill since the first match.
• Each difficulty level has its own score multiplier: more challenge, more points.
• New space stations to land in for all the spaceships fleet.
• New tutor character inspired by old anime cartoons.

So put down your tools, keyboards and various widgets that make you more effective in your trade and pick up your iOS device and start gaming away on Tapsteroids. Why not? It’s free. Of course, it’s a recommended download even when it’s at regular price.

Color Patterns isn’t for kids. In fact, the images included were designed specifically for adults. The collection within the app includes illustrations such as zigzag patterns, paisley prints, blocks, stripes and circles. I have to say, the app makes it so easy to get inspired and draw something.

Beyond the pages of patterns, you can sketch all sorts of ideas with a wide variety of colors as the app allows for mixing and matching of colors. You can choose from 90 different hues. All you need to get started is to launch the app and you’re taken to the pattern selection. From there, pick the pattern that pique’s your interest and select by tapping on it. You’re then presented with a few different options on the right of the app, including the color brush to choose your different hues, size brush to choose thicker or thinner, which makes creating detail or covering large spaces with one color very simple, an eraser and an undo brush. All the essentials.

Of course, Color Patterns has all the social features that you would expect such as the ability to save to Dropbox, Evernote and share to Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. This makes sharing your masterpieces easier than ever. If you really make something incredible, you can use the AirPrint feature to print it out and put it on the fridge or frame it as well as create a postcard with Sincerely’s print and ship ($1.99).

What I love about the Color Patterns is that it doesn’t get in the way of your creativity. It’s simply a color app that allows you to jump right in and start drawing from your inner Picaso. And if you’re stuck even after you launch the app … just remember these words from a wise fish, “Just keep swimming.” Meaning, pick a random color and a random size brush and just start doodling. Who knows, it my just be your next best project.

If you’re looking for a solid color app, sketch pad or need a bit of extra inspiration, I highly recommend downloading Color Patterns on the App Store.

The FX Photo Studio is an extremely useful and powerful collection of photo effects and filters. There are over 190 effects, including: Lomo, Sketch, Vintage, Art, Grunge, 3-D, B&W, ColorStrokes, Cross processed, Textures and many more.

Definitely download FX Photo Studio for iPhone and FX Photo Studio for iPad.

Video Games Intelligence announced the launch of Independent’s Day, an afternoon of conference sessions and networking focused on indie mobile game development. The event will take place on May 13, prior to the start of its annual Mobile Gaming USA West conference in San Francisco on May 14-15.

The keynote speech will be given by Wilson Kriegel, the former chief revenue officer (CRO) of Draw Something creators OMGPOP. He currently serves as president of Paltalk, a leading provider of audio and video communications services.

iFix, the all-things gizmo teardown group, asks you not to recycle in honor of Earth Day as last year, 1.75 billion phones were sold to consumers around the world. By the end of 2013, another 240 million tablets and 207 million PCs will be produced and shipped globally. Making all those fun gizmos has a huge environmental cost. They mention that repair is better than recycling it combined with upgrading extends the life of electronics and keeps things out of landfills, and out of shredders.

And now, with ONetify, you can track your Facebook & Google Talk friends’ online presence, application will work in background and notify you about their activities using iOS notifications. You can also view activities history, earn points and bonuses for tracking and much more. Check out the video trailer below.

ONetify on YouTube

Clear2Pay, the international technology provider of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions announced today that it is partnering with Earthport, the cross-border payments service provider, on low value clearing capability for its US client base. With the OPF Earthport Connect module, clients of the Open Payment Framework (OPF) will have out of the box connectivity to Earthport’s global payments infrastructure in over 50 countries.

A new game that just hit the App Store is Alice of Hearts. The recently released mixture of RPG, puzzle and strategy from Aurum Apps is an unusual take on the popular novels by Lewis Carroll to create a unique and challenging game. Guide Alice through Wonderland as she struggles to find her way back home. Familiar faces trick and tease her for their own gains, but they have made one mistake: they underestimated Alice. With her trusted Egos fighting alongside her, Alice is ready to face the eccentric denizens of Wonderland.

And that’s the weekend update.

Fish Out of Water is a water-based physics environment that takes you back to the days of skipping rocks at the local watering hole. Only this time, you’re skipping fish. The game has the fluid motion of the developer’s Fruit Ninja swiping, but has a taste of Angry Birds action in that you have to throw fish, not birds, from one side of the screen to the other. Of course, you’re not after little piggies, rather you’re goal is to fling and skip the group of daredevil fishy friends as far as you can. But it’s not just about brute force.

You’ll be judged by a group of crabs, a.k.a. the Crab Crew. Now, if you know anything about sea creatures then you know that crabs are, well, crabby. So don’t expect them to score you throws perfectly every time. In fact, each fishy friend has a different set of skipping skills. For instance, the dolphin in Fish Out of Water is best thrown at a fierce straight trajectory as if you throw said fish to high it will dive too deep, hit the bottom and ruin your throw. However, the whale was made to fly high, hit the water hard and bounce up off the water again. With so much mass, it’s hard to sink the whale. You can tap on the various crab crew members to find out what they like … more skips, more distance, combo of both, etc.

Fish Out Of Water on YouTube

What really makes the game extra fun are making combos of “treasures” that give you different abilities, weather it be add extra points to your score, skips to your skipping total and much more. You’ll have fun discovering the different combinations. You earn treasures by completing achievements such as throwing each fish a certain amount of times. Of course, you can buy these Crystal Packs on via In-App Purchase, but they in no way hinder your fun if you don’t have them.

As for leader boards, you can create your own league for friends to join, join a friend’s or a random league to go head-to-head and try to beat other fish thrower’s scores. And it’s not all sunshine and flipflops. Storms with wind and rain can hinder your performance in this Fish Out of Water performance for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Overall, Fish Out of Water is a complete fishy blast and is a must download. It’s fluid game mechanics and original gameplay make for a fantastic fishy good time.

I think the coolest aspect of the app is the RSS feed at the bottom. Now, it currently supports Google Reader, but an update is underway for when Google gets rid of their RSS service in July. I’m hoping the don’t.

But why use Google Reader you ask? It’s my drug of choice. Sure, there are plenty RSS readers out there, but Google’s has been my go-to for so long that I just want to enjoy every bit of it until they officially shut it down. From the amount of downloads I’m getting … I don’t think I’m the only one!

Clock Weather News on YouTube

I’ve had this idea for some time now and want to thank developers Oxana Kovalchuck and Alexey Zavrazhniy who helped bring it into reality. They are an awesome duo so please contact me if you’d like their info.

Here’s a drilled down feature set of the Clock Weather News app.

With built-in localized Weather information, RSS and retro flip clock, Clock Weather News keeps you informed and ready for the day no matter the conditions.

Retro Flip Clock:

• Featuring a stylish flip clock style display, time never looked so good
• Placed on top of changing weather scenes based on current conditions, you’ll be able to check the time and the weather at a glance.
• Set to 12h or 24h

Instant and Live Weather Conditions:

• Automatically localized to your current location
• Background changes to current conditions … clouds, sunny, rain, evening
• Set to Celsius or Fahrenheit
• 4-Day extended forecast drop-down menu when you need it
• Displays current wind speed

Automatic RSS News Reader

• Get your RSS Reader news feed directly within the app
• Set to auto scroll or manual scroll to read at your own pace
• Tap to browse full article, tap to close to read additional articles

Ad Free and Alarm Clock – Available via In-App Purchase for ONLY $.99!

• Enjoy the retro flip clock, instant and live weather conditions and automatic rotating news feed in the free version as well as no Ads if you upgrade to the paid version for only $.99!
• Also enjoy alarm clock integration with iTunes library music selection … wake up to your favorite music.

The free Clock Weather News app is great for leaving open on your desk to keep on on the news or just a beautiful desktop clock with a retro feel. Hope you enjoy.

The Gap Pal keeps items secure and close at hand.

The Gap Pal is made of water and stain resistant fabric to block spills in the car, and the sleek design complements your auto’s interior. Elastic straps in the front hold cables, headsets or notes. The Gap Pal works on both the the driver and passenger side, or even in the back to hold DVD remotes, headphones and music players.

The Gap Pal is available now in gray or black for a suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information, visit Tablet Pals.

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There are no other apps like them on the app store. These apps are about photographers learning and getting inspired, no matter what camera they use. There are over a hundred individual assignments in the SLR version (75 for the iPhone shooter who doesn’t have the shutter speeds, lens choice, etc.), and hundreds of thousands of random objects, combinations, locations, and scavenger hunt terms.

Sound like a blast? Yes! So make sure to download Photography Assignment Generator and start snapping away!