Inkblotter

Drop ink on a page, close your phone to press it, and open it to see what the ink reveals. Inkblotter turns iPhone Duo into the paper. Ink one page, shut the phone, and the print spreads from the spine as the hinge closes. Open it again and strands of wet ink stretch and snap across the fold, with the feel and sound of paper and ink under your fingers. While the phone is closed, its cover is a plain blue-black notebook. Then say what you see. A Victorian Examiner, a kindly gentleman-scientist of the 1880s, writes your reading in his casebook: what your answer says about you, part by part, and why the old examiners read it that way. THE FOLD • Unlimited ink in six period colors: blue-black, sepia, Prussian blue, verdigris, gamboge and mauve • Tap to drop, hold still to pour, drag to smear • Real folded-ink physics: lobes, feathered veins and a dark seam where the ink meets the crease •…