Zombie survival scanner - free iPhone app

Fans of Max Brooks' terrific zombie books (including The Zombie Survival Guide, a deadpan, realistic guide to staying alive in a zombie apocalypse, and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War) will enjoy this free iPhone app produced by Brooks' publisher, Random House.

Once installed, you can take photos of people and it zombifies them. I tried it out with a photo of my face, and am pleased with the results. (Probably would have looked better without a shirt).

Zombie Survival Guide Scanner iPhone App

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

curses – it doesn’t make use of the front-facing camera…
tylerthevideoguy

Please please please let this come to Android! It looks awesome!
Durandal

@ #1: Unicorn chaser?!? C’mon, what’s happier than zombies?

I think BB needs to start posting zombie chasers after all unicorn-related posts…
mikelipino

tyler took the words right out of my lipless, rotting mouth. This needs to come to Android!
deathbaboon

Judging on the picture of Mr.Frauenfelder and the demo I would speculate the same zombie transition is done every time. This would be much neater if the graphics it used to zombify we dynamic- making each zombie different.
joel_kelly

Ugh, I hate Zombies and their current cultural cache. Why is it okay to post illustrations of rotting cadavers? This is a little too realistic for my taste.
Anonymous

Unicorn Zombies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous

unicorn chaser, please?