SuperBodies is a new iOS app, made for anyone interested to peek inside the body of peak performers at the “limits of human endurance.” The official pitch goes like this:
With cutting-edge 3D animation and original video, the SuperBodies mobile app allows users in a game play format to peel away the human skin, revealing what truly happens on the inside when star athletes perform. Choose from gymnastics, badminton, boxing, volleyball, 100m dash and swimming. Explore how highly-tuned bodies cope with such physically shocking tribulations as a knockout punch, a blow to the ribs or fierce muscle tear. See what happens to the circulatory, skeletal, muscular, nervous and respiratory systems, each rendered with vibrant computer graphic animations that appear to probe the human bodies’ intricate mazes.
The idea is to showcase summer sports in a new way and get “prepared” for the 2012 Summer Games. In that sense, each athletic activity is teased apart in short videos featuring Greg Wells, Ph.D., a scientist and physiologist who works with elite athletes, and also as a SuperBodies TV host for Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
Sounds cool? What do you think?
SuperBodies HD for iPhone 4, new iPod Touch and iPad ($3.99) [iTunes link]
SuperBodies for older iPhones ($1.99) [iTunes link]