Apple has proved how cool they are with the iPhone 4. But if that isn’t enough for you, take a look at this giant 30 24″ LCD TV synchronized to show the top 50,000 apps on the app store. They just fall from the top and stacks at the base. It takes 10,800 apps to fill up the whole wall and once its full, it resets and starts all over again.
If you were wondering how this works, every time somebody downloads an app its icon drops from the top and lands on a stack of the same colour. So you get these colour coded piles building up all across the wall and honestly its pretty cool to just stand there and watch. We dont know much about whats running behind it, but keeping 30 screens in sync like that cant be an easy job!!
Last year at WWDC they had a similar wall with 20 of the 30″ Cinema Displays showing 20,000 icons that pulsed whenever somebody bought an app. Back then the app store had around 50,000 apps and now its over 225,000, so the falling icons make a lot more sense than the pulsing ones!!
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