Octopus Paul Zombie
Who doesn't remember Octopus Paul? A media animal who became famous back in 2008 for prophesying the result of some of the matches of the European Cup of that year, and who repeated this feat during the World Cup in South Africa 2010, even guessing the final victory of Spain An activity that he developed in his aquarium in Germany, where he chose between the mussels of one or another urn where the flags of the teams that were going to play were placed.The fame of this animal even led him to star in his own application, through which he could enter a question any and two answers to get your verdict. An application that is now updated to its version 2.0
However, the Octopus Paul passed away, though he is now back from the dead to continue solving dilemmas and predicting the results of Euro 2012 with the application Octopus Paul Zombie, version 2.0 of Octopus Paul With this entertaining application, the user can continue asking Paul any type of issue, be it football or another field, so that this one, despite being a zombie octopus, points out one of the two possible answers.
But that's not the only thing that this new version of Octopus Paul offers. And we must talk about a renewed design As we say, Paul really died in 2010, so now it comes in the form of undead and looking a little haggard to the app. All this with a comic design, drawings that tell the story of this animal, and that serve to show the response of Paul, only this time he doesn't choose a urn with mussels, but chooses between two tombstones whose epitaphs are the responses typed by the user.
However, what's new is not limited to the visual aspect Now, in order to save time to the user, the questions asked by others are collected, in addition to having a list of predefined questions In this way, no it is necessary to rack your brain to ask and point out what the two possible answers are.Along with this, we add social possibilities And now, with Octopus Paul Zombie You can involve contacts from the social network Facebook in the questions and post on the wall the user the answer that this animal chooses.
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Almost more interesting than the application itself, is its origin Its development comes from the hand of a Spanish company, Mobivery, where they proposed a kind of contest to motivate the creation of a new application, and which they called the HackathonThis competition consisted of 34 uninterrupted hours of programming, which culminated in the creation of Octopus Paul Zombie And it is that Mobivery has already drawn the attention of the media on other occasions for its labor practices , which has led them to be awarded the prize for best SME to work for last year
The application Octopus Paul Zombie is now available to predict the result of any match of this Eurocopa 2012 which will start in just 20 days. The best thing is that this application can be obtained completely free from the application market of iTunes This curious and fun application has been developed for all Apple devices: both for iPhone and for iPad and iPod Touch
