Photo credit: Rusti Curry
The Glo Bible aims to update scripture for the iPhone generation (okay, I just decided that there’s an ‘iPhone generation’). This DVD-ROM features HD videos, maps and ‘virtual tours’ of 1st century Jerusalem and is suspiciously reminiscent of creator Nelson Saba’s iLumina (2002). Odiously, this DVD-ROM isn’t something you actually ‘buy’ for the US$90 price tag, but only “license” for use on three computers. A press release for the ‘service’ says of the creator
Saba has a calling to create projects that communicate Scripture and his personal vision is to use the gifts God has given him through the creation of projects and tools such as Glo, which will enable the world to know Christ.
I’m sure God had such proprietary attitudes in mind when he gave Nelson this vocation. Then again, it’s not terribly surprising when you realise that Saba has lodged a patent on “Systems and methods for providing a zoomable user interface“.
