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Happy Sunday, yooRyoo readers. Today we present another verson of “Is It Real?” - the web 2.0 guessing game that’s sweeping the nation! Here’s how the rules work - every Sunday, we feature a web 2.0 company, application or service and give you a brief description of what it is and how it works. Then we ask our readers to vote on whether it is real, or not.

The twist is that you cannot use the web in anyway to help you find the answer. The voting polls stay open all week (encourage your friends to come out and vote). Then, the following Friday (in our Friday Fishwrap) we reveal the answer.

So, now that you understand the rules, let’s introduce today’s application - called “iHologram.”

This iPhone application is a 3D animation program, and works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The 3d scene’s perspective is then warped using anamorphic perspective, making the object appear to jump off the screen.

It’s hard to describe - it might be better just to see it in action:

While not available through the iTunes appstore yet, interest in the iHologram is high and sales are expected to go through the roof!

So, yooRyoo readers, we ask: without searching Google or using the web in any way, Is iHologram real? Vote below and tune in next Friday for the results.

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In a rush to release a new iPhone application through Apple’s iTunes store, Toot 2.0 has just been released for the new 3G platform.

Toot is a microblogging technology that allows connectivity to your online friends similar to Twitter. Using bio-tech implants, Toot allows you to automatically update your health status on the fly! Through wireless connectivity, Toot implants convey your biometric information status to a website console that integrates with all social software platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, WhoIsI). Imagine conveying your health status in 140 characters or less - what a breakthrough!!!

Now available for the iPhone, Toot 2.0 is already gaining a wide acceptance with users:

• “I waited in line two hours at the Apple store for my iPhone, had to wait another 45 for AT&T to run a background check and initiate my cell phone account…now I can’t wait to get home and Toot on my iPhone!” said one Apple zealot.
• Another user wrote: “I have been Tooting all day and all night since I got my new iPhone. It feels great - but I wonder if there is some way I could wash off my phone - it’s beginning to smell.”

Forget Twitter, forget FriendFeed, forget Google Talk - it’s time to Toot 2.0 on your iPhone!

Information regarding Toot1.0 can be found -> here.

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Time for the second installment of “Is It Real.” With all of the excitement surrounding the new iPhone 3G, and the release of the much anticipated iPhone apps store, a number of exciting applications are now available through iTunes. But none as more powerful as this week’s “Is It Real?” entry:

MiPhone (pronouned “My-Phone”) is a unique social-networking tool that allows iPhone users to identify other iPhone 3G users (using the internal GPS device), so they can mingle and congregate, and generally look down at all non-iPhone cell-phone users.

For only $4.99, MiPhone is available through the iTunes app-store for a limited time.

So, “Is It Real” fans, it’s time to guess - is MiPhone real?  No fair searching the apps store in iTunes to find out! The real answer will be given this Friday!

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In a surprise announcement at the World Wide Clock Manufacturing (WWCM) conference, Steve Jobs’s keynote revealed Apple’s plan to enter into the time-providing industry with the upcoming release of iclock. Built on the ever-popular Shuffle form factor, iclock is designed to provide exclusive updates to the time (as well as hold up to 1 hour of music). To receive updates to time, users will have to subscribe through iTunes to receive AAIC content time content. These unique feeds allows users to fast-forward through unpopular hours (8:00am on Monday mornings) to the time they desire (5:00pm on Friday).

“Apple is delivering reality to the old adage ‘It’s 5′clock somewhere’…with the iclock, it really can be 5 o’clock ANYWHERE.” said Jobs, “The days of boring meetings are over - iclock can take you right to the time you want, whenever you want it.”

In addition to delivering standard hour/min/sec updates, the iclock can be configured to deliver audible voice-overs from well-known celebrities. With the initial release, artists such as Metallica, REM and Madonna have already agreed to lend their voices to the iclock.

In a quick response to this announcement, Coldplay has already announced plans to release DRM-free time updates via their website, available for download - at whatever the price users think fair.

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Forget Twitter, forget IM, forget Skype – it’s time to Toot! Toot is the latest in technology that allows connectivity to your online friends. Based on patented bio-tech implants, Toot allows you to automatically update your health status on the fly! With built-in wireless connectivity, our Toot implants convey relevant biometric information status to our servers, which are then translated into status updates that integrate seamlessly with all social software platforms. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Kanji.

Testimonial from a new Toot Subscriber: “Wow - when I first started Tooting, I wasn’t quite comfortable with it. I felt a bit embarassed doing it in public. But now that I got the hang of it, I Toot all day long. Now that I connected this to my Blackberry, I can toot in the elevator, on the subway - even at home, in bed, under the covers. I am not sure what life was like before Tooting - but it’s certainly much better now!”

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