Lumin essence

Last November saw the launch of Alphalabs: a collaboration between onedotzero, W+K, and Nokia. Ostensibly an app competition, it is a programmme which encourages artists and developers to share experiential apps built on the Windows Phone 7 platform which powers Nokia's Lumia 800.

The competition has been extended until 13/02/12, with winners announced on 17/02/12. Entries don't necessarily have to be completed projects, and there is £5k for the winner and £500 for ten runners-up.

Three rather splendid examples of pre-built apps are:

Vequencer: Stuart Warren-Hill's app which allows people to remix the tracks of his group Hexstatic

Kaleidobooth: Kaleidoscopic fun from Max Hattler and IndieSkies

Redshift - a proto-music video racing game from Field and Treehouse

Kaleidobooth. Nice, innit

Full info and a catalogue of the apps submitted to date is at alphalabs.cc, and @alphalabscc on Twitter.