Steve Wozniak praises panorama app that spins iPhone

Cycloramic is an iPhone app that uses the vibrate function to steadily rotate the phone while it stands on its end, creating a 360-degree video panorama in the process.

Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple with his friend Steve Jobs in the 1970s, made a panorama of his kitchen and told the developers the app was "unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time".

Cycloramic was launched last weekend by Bruno and Rebecca Francois, an Anglo-French couple who live in the US. Their simple app makes the phone vibrate just enough to slowly spin around - as long as the handset is standing upright on a smooth surface.

The app, say the developers, is designed for the iPhone 5, which has a different vibration motor compared with previous models.

While the app rotates it records video - from either the front or rear-facing camera - and can be set to rotate up to three times. The resulting video can then be saved to the camera roll.