Gallery: An Amazingly Designed Kids' App That Feels Alive

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    Plants is the new app from Tinybop, a Brooklyn company whose apps encourage kids to discover the natural world.
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    The app comes with two interactive biomes, a desert, shown here, and a deciduous forest.
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    Kids can poke and prod at the scenes to learn about the wildlife. You can drag that tab int he lower left to get x-ray vision into the soil.
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    And speed through time using the dial in the bottom right.
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    Tinybop is averse to didacticism. In testing, it finds that these more open-ended apps are far more engaging for youngsters.
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    Nothing tells you to rub two clouds together, but if you do, you'll find that they create lightning--and eventually a forest fire.
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