Last week I highlighted the work of a great new development team, Curious Hat, whose focus is to make apps jump off the screen and merge the digital world with our own. Well, I had to give a shout out to another app doing similar things.

CobyPic is by far my favorite coloring app ever. I'm not a fan of apps that simulate drawing or coloring for young children, mainly because I want my mobiles devices to do things that you can't do with a crayon and a piece of paper. Well, CobyPic makes this a reality.

The way you color with CobyPic is, after choosing the picture you want to color in, you have to look around your environment and find an item with a color that you like, then point the camera at it. When you are happy with the color that is in the circle on your screen you hit a button and that becomes the color of part of your picture. The beauty of it is the camera also picks up textures and shading and allows children to create all types of beautiful designs.

You can see how that evolves in the image story presented above.

If you are interested in these new apps that engage the children with the world around them through their mobiles device, then CobyPic is definitely one you should check out.

You can find out more and download CobyPic via the website.