The ever-debonair Winchester, best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, not only wrote the text that accompanies the app’s 300 rotatable images of human and animal skulls — he also reads it. The result is informative and thoughtful as well as gorgeous and diverting. More, please.

This interactive app functions like a digital version of a highly produced coffee-table book, with bonus special effects such as the ability to view images in three dimensions with 3-D glasses.

Winchester telling Dudley’s story of how he became fascinated with skulls and how his collection has developed, which has had some legal bumps along the way, makes it interesting for even non-phrenologists.

It’s something that both I and my four-year-old have had loads of fun with. It’s brilliant

Touch Press has a reputation for innovative apps that take exploration to a whole new level. X is for X-Ray is no exception.

This title will delight young children, giving them a unique insight into the inner secrets of familiar everyday objects. It will also appeal to anyone with curiosity about the world, how things work and the power of X-ray technology to reveal the nature of reality.

You can enjoy this adventure on your own terms, and approach it from any angle you want; entertainment or enlightenment, the outcome is always the same, and you will always come away feeling both uplifted and educated every time you dip in.

March of the Dinosaurs combines spectacular images and animation with a compelling story that incorporates recent scientific findings...For children interested in dinosaurs or classes studying these animals, March offers a thrilling story, pages of facts, and an engaging educational experience.

As someone coming from the wrong side of the two cultures, Eliot's poem had effectively been closed off to me for decades. Now it isn't, and that in itself would almost justify the price of the iPad that made it possible.

All in all, the technological features, and the ease with which they can be used or hidden, make for a deep and rewarding reading of "The Waste Land." It's a promising marriage of poetry and technology, and just one more reason to break down and buy an iPad.

TS Eliot's The Waste Land Replaces Angry Birds as Greatest Modernist App

Hear about the cruelest month and everything else in T. S. Eliot’s groundbreaking poem, as read by Alec Guinness, Viggo Mortensen, or the poet himself. For a deeper critical inquiry, read the text in landscape mode alongside annotations and line-by-line links to video commentary by poets and critics.

Stunning doesn’t adequately describe the high-resolution 360-degree images of the mineral specimens and jewels from the museum’s deep collection....A dazzling app for reference and leisure viewing.

It is mesmerising and seductive: every time I think I’ll spend a couple of minutes with it, I find 20 have passed. Beautiful and informative, with so much to explore and manipulate. The images on the iPad screen are simply stunning.

Oh my stars! I so want this, and I’m sure my friends will love it too. If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, this comes in at a close second!

The new Solar System for iPad app is an amazing and extraordinarily attractive resource for amateur astronomers… an out-of-this-world digital book that is as informative as it is beautiful. It's a stellar example for other reference app makers on how to best take advantage of the tablet medium

If you have even a passing interest in the objects that make up our solar system, our sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets and objects beyond, you no doubt will highly enjoy this app.

Best App of all Theodore Gray Wolfram Periodic table. Everything is animated and gorgeous. Alone worth iPad.

The iPad's splendor and power may be best shown by The Elements: A Visual Exploration. The $13.99 program is more electronic book than traditional app, but it's not like any e-book you've seen. The periodic table of elements comes to life when you touch your finger against any element. Handsome photographs of objects spin around so you can observe them from all vantage points.

Indeed, the elements in this periodic table seem very much alive. The obvious way to examine static objects — say, a lump of gold (number 79) or an ingot of cast antimony (number 51) — is to rotate them, to spin the specimen with your fingertips. And that's exactly what you do here."