This is just way too cool. A new technology called ViPR (pronounced “viper”) allows you to take a picture of objects like CDs, DVDs, and books, send it to the ViPR server, and receive information about whatever you took. A movie might return a video clip, a link to the soundtrack on iTunes, a website about the film, and a lengthy description. The software can even handle poorly-framed and partially obscured covers with aplomb. It would be exceptionally useful for those edgy CD covers that have no information whatsoever about the album name or artist, at the very least, plus it’s just neat as hell. Keep an eye out for a release when the App Store hits in June.
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Good news for iPhone gamers: Innaworks is developing a tool called alcheMo to ease the porting of Java or J2ME games onto the iPhone. The iPhone doesn’t natively support Java applications — although steps are being taken to change that — so the software instead automatically converts Java code into iPhone code. This kind of automated code conversion is somewhat hit-or-miss, but it does ease the process or porting considerably. This first release is a beta, and there’s no word on an exact release date, but hopefully they’ll finish it up before the release of the AppStore in June.