Koi Pond

By Jim Lynch on September 29th, 2008

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Koi are very beautiful fish but not all of us can afford to build a koi pond to keep them in. And why bother when you can have a gorgeous koi pond right on your iPhone 3G? Yup, thanks to the good folks at The Blimp Pilots you can now keep koi living in your iPhone. Well okay they aren’t really alive but you get the idea.

Koi Pond lets you gaze into a tranquil pond as koi swim around. You can touch the screen to create ripples in the water or you can touch the koi themselves. Spook the koi and watch them swim away only to come back a few seconds later. I found that this app is probably one of the most creative uses of multi-touch I’ve seen.

The water itself is amazing to look at, it’s quite beautiful and moves realistically when you touch it with your finger. The splash sound as the water moves adds to the realism and gives the pond authenticity. You really have to see Koi Pond in action to appreciate how good it looks.