pyPiwo – Change your Phone into a Beer Glass

I am sorry, that I haven’t told you about this application till now, but I didn’t have the time to take photos to illustrate this article. You may have already heard about it at other blogs.

pyPiwo is a Python based application which uses the accelerometer to simulate your phone’s screen as a beer glass.

The beer is rotated and moved according to the angle of the phone and vanishes slowly like you are drinking the beer.
If you hold your phone onto your lips, it really looks like you are drinking beer with it!

You can choose your own “kind of fluid” with a different background and label picture. By default, there is “Heinecken” beer.

It looks pretty cool, but have a look at my picture gallery to understand how it works:

Here you can see my N95 as a full-filled “Heineken” beer glass.

I am rotating the phone and the beer is also moving because of the built in accelerometer.

The background is animated so that it look like “real” beer. Unfortunately, I cannot show you this with my picture gallery.

As I said, the beer is vanishing like it has been drunk. Looks nice doesn’t it?

Now the glass is empty. And what does one do with an empty beer glass?

Of course, you refill it. With my “virtual glass” you can do that easily by selecting “Options” -> “Full”.

I can drink as many glasses of beer as I want to with this simple method.

I found still another background for “pyPiwo”: the Irish beer “Guiness”, looking also very nice. You can change it by choosing a different “Label” and “Background”.

You can download the whole package including the application and the two backgrounds here, password: “symbianwebblog”. The application works of course just with phones having an accelerometer: it is tested with the N95 and N95 8G, but should also work with the N82 and N93i.

Please make sure to have Python installed.