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Toast the new year with a virtual glass of booze on your iPhone (or iPad!)
IKEA, the lord of bland, cheap, spruce and spartan Scandinavian furniture, has released a toasting app just in time for New Year's Eve. Pick from the huge range of glasses and drinks, and enjoy a virtual toast!The app, which is called Skål!, or "Cheers!" in English, has a neat trick up its sleeve: it uses the rear-facing camera to create a backdrop for your virtual drink. Then, as you drink from your iPhone (or iPad, or iPod touch), the drink, its contents and the background rotate to complete the illusion. You can even save a copy of the scene, if you're the kind of person that likes to keep mementos.
The app is free, which makes this our top pick for both saving money and preventing any cataclysmic chundering this New Year's Eve.
If you need further convincing of just how awesome this app is, there's a cute video of it in action after the break.
[If you manage to take a photo of yourself drinking a massive stein of virtual beer on your iPad, please leave a link in the comments. -- Update: forget that, the iPad doesn't have a camera!]
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Subscribe to comments2late2dieDec 31st 2010 8:44AM
It's actually kinda neat - photo gallery, profile exchange, etc. (definitely more than that beer drinking app that was released a while back). Having said that, at the end of the day (pun fully intended) I prefer to toast with a real champagne :)
XanderDec 31st 2010 10:55AM
Because you can't afford real drinks if you bought an iPhone.
Fredrik SelvigJan 10th 2011 2:23AM
It's Swedish, and (at least in Norway) the app is called "IKEA Skål!"