The App Store in iOS 7 hasn't changed much, it simply allows us to update the applications automatically and a design change according to the minimalism of the operating system. But the fact that there is a new design and new features in the App Store does not mean that the weekly sections in iPad News are lost: Application of the Week and Editorial Selection (in addition to the Updates and News of the Week). Today is the turn to talk about the App of the Week. Weekly, Apple places a free payment application so that all users can enjoy a weekly discount on applications or games.
On this occasion, the Free Application is: The human body. An educational application for all audiences in which it shows us what we have inside us: the different devices that make up the human body. The application asks us for access to our microphone (ear canals), images (sight) and sometimes the location. Thanks to this application, we will be able to know the operation of the different devices that make up a human organism. After the jump the review of: «The Human Body».
Entering «The Human Body» for the first time: the profiles
The first time we enter the application: "The Human Body" we will have the possibility to create a profile. To do this, when we enter for the first time we will have to click on the "+" and select the following profile features:
- Background color
- Esthetic: Boy or girl
- Name
Once we have managed to create our profile we will have to click on our name to access what the application itself will be.
Space organization
Once inside «The Human Body» we can distinguish different shares:
- Body: In the center of the screen we have the person who in theory would be us. In this "doll" we will see our anatomy later, when we know how.
- Sidebar: If we look to the left, we see a key. If we press it, we access a small menu with the appearance that you see in the image above. In this menu we can see:
- Settings: If we click on the axis we see that we have different tools to use: change the background color, remove sound, make the voice notes recorded by us visible, see labels with the parts of the body and change the profile.
- Apparatus: The rest of the buttons show us the different devices that we have in our body. If we click on one, the organs that make up that apparatus in our human body will appear.
Integrated
If we then focus on the design of the application: "The Human Body" we see that it is well cared for. I will highlight a number of points that are worthwhile about the design of the application:
- Personalization: In any part of the application we can change the background color and of course, modify the appearance of our profile for whatever we want: change of background, sex to experience different reproductive devices ...
- Simplicity: There is not much text, there are simply pictures with which a child can begin to learn about his body and the devices that make it up. With a simple touch you can see the circulatory system and with another you can see how the heart pumps blood while the nerve in the right arm sends an impulse to the brain, which exerts a response.
- Parental control: Within the application, they have designed an intelligent parental control where we can see what our profiles do in their application profiles. Imagine that your child is experimenting with the circulatory and digestive systems; your father's account will come to you what he does with the circulatory and digestive system to control him even if he does not know it.
- Features: The number of functions that the application has in addition to the customization and minimalism of "The Human Body" is also important.
Functioning of the application and body devices
Once inside our profile we will begin to see our human body by opening the side menu. In it we are going to find different devices with which we can do different things:
- Parts that make up an apparatus or system: When we press a device, for example: the nervous system; We will have the option to see the organs that are part of that system or apparatus in the side menu. In addition, if we want to see the operation of each part, just press a part in the side menu
- Practical parts: For example, we access the eye. It will ask us for access to our camera to see the operation of the human eye. Not only in the eye, but in many other parts of the body, such as the ear.
- Overlapping devices or systems: If we want to see the performance of two or more devices at the same time, just press the device icon in the side menu. If we want to see the circulatory and the nervous, we will have to press the two buttons that are related to these two devices.
Our assessment
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