iPad Apps

Bottom Line: Notes on Blindness is a unique virtual reality app that helps sighted people to better understand the experience of people who have lost, or are losing, their eyesight.

Bottom Line: How to Make Electricity is a top-notch educational iPad app, showing children the basics of electricity and power generation by working through a series of interactive labs and suggesting additional, real-world experiments.

Bottom Line: Namoo - Wonders of Plant Life is a beautifully designed iPad app that helps young students explore the basics of plant physiology through magnificent interactive graphics and descriptive text.

Bottom Line: The free Attenborough Story of Life iPad app is a magnificent tribute to Sir David Attenborough, letting you stream more than 1,000 nature clips narrated by the BBC documentarian.

Bottom Line: Never be stymied by The Bard again. Heuristic Shakespeare - The Tempest is an Editors' Choice-worthy play-reading experience.

Bottom Line: Dino Walk: Continental Drift is an intriguing educational app that shows how Earth's land masses have changed over the past 600 million years, and depicts numerous species from many past eras.

Bottom Line: SkySafari 5 Plus does a beautiful job of rendering the night sky, offers rich data on the stars and other objects it shows, and can control computerized telescopes.

Bottom Line: Luminos is a great iPad app for beginning stargazers and an even better one for astronomy enthusiasts, with its inclusion of seemingly innumerable sky objects and its ability to control a telescope.

Bottom Line: Space Images for iPad is a NASA app highlighting the amazing work done by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's unmanned spacecraft in exploring the solar system.

Bottom Line: PowerPoint for iPad, with its well-chosen feature set and clear interface, is powerful enough to let you leave your laptop behind when you make presentations on the road.