Bathysphere: Aquarium Widgets

A living deep-sea aquarium for your Home Screen. Your widgets become brass portholes, and on the other side of the glass glowing creatures glide past in real, continuous motion. PORTHOLES THAT SHARE THE WATER Line up portholes in a Home Screen row, give them the same depth, and set each one's Position in Edit Widget. Now they look into the same water. A siphonophore that drifts out of one porthole turns up in the next, after slipping behind your app icons. ONE OCEAN FOR EVERYONE The sea is worked out from the current UTC time, so every Bathysphere on Earth shows the same creature at the same moment. No server is involved. Every iPhone does the same arithmetic and arrives at the same ocean. TAP THE GLASS Tap a porthole on your Home Screen and a flash fires. Whatever is passing is photographed into your field journal as a painted naturalist plate, with its name, its depth and a NEW badge…