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110 Stories: 9/11 App

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Hard to believe that in only a few short weeks, it will have been 10 years since the events of 9/11. As a pet project, life long New Yorker Brian August took to Kickstarter several months back and proposed creating an iPhone app called "110 Stories" which could visually recreate the towers from every vantage point in the city, so that New Yorkers and visitors alike could once again reimagine the iconic beauty of the buildings.

The video above is August's pitch and his concept behind the app, which in only a few short weeks received enough financial backing to go into production. Some sites such as Gizmodo have criticized the app as a shameless and crass way to relive what will surely be a painful and tearful day for all New Yorkers.

Do you agree with the critics or are August's efforts coming from a good place? 

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