The comic is called Paranormal Activity: The Search For Katie, A Case Study by Dr. Johann Averys DMN. And if you remember the end of the film, Katie has vanished and Micah is... well, gone as well, sadly. Apple paired up with IDW to continue the story. The comic app picks up right after that, with the demon expert Dr. Averys finally showing up to their home, and searching for Katie, and some answers. It was written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Mark Badger. Here are the first set of exclusive stills from the beginning.

We emailed Lobdell asking why he thought the story must go on, since the ending seemed so definite, we didn't think there could be a sequel even in a comic book series. To which he responded:

I have to disagree! Even before I left the movie theater my mind was racing though a hundred different questions! Where did Katie go? How long had she been in thrall to the demon? Why did he do what he did to Micah... or have Katie do it? What about the mysterious Dr. Johann Averys — often mentioned but never seen? Could the case he was working on in Europe have anything to do with the case in San Diego? What would the investigation into the murder be like? One part cop forensics, one part study in demonology? The demon seemed like it had much larger fish to fry to scaring young women... could it have followers? A lot of this is set up in the first installment of the online comic book, and I can't wait for the opportunity to further explore the world of Paranormal Activity.

The application is available now at itunes, For 99 cents.

All the phones you see below are fakes - mostly fake iPhones and Nokias, for sale in China. Chipchase writes that there are three basic types of fake phone:

1. Any old phone with a Nokia/Motorola/Apple logo or two printed on the side. In India these are referred to as ‘China Mobile' (no relation to this China Mobile) - phones that may or may not last out the month. These sometimes fool first time consumers in markets with low mobile phone penetration. Top photo on this page shows a fake 'Nokia'.
2. Where the industrial design is copied, the device includes Nokia/Motorola/Apple logo but the device itself tends to be poorly manufactured. Some of the designs are based on products already on the market, but all the industrial designer needs is a leaked photo or official press release from another country to be able to manufacture the hardware - sometimes offering it for sale in a local market before the official device is launched.
3. Recently the quality of fakes/copies have reached the point where many consumers will assume they are holding the real thing in their hands - phones that look, feel and behave like the real thing – right down to start up sequences, graphical assets, user interface modalities for the the top-level user interface elements - the so-called Super Fakes.

Chipchase explains that type #2 also includes fakes that are released before the official models they knock off. He even rates the design of the popular superfake Nokia 5800:

Exceptional attention to detail: industrial design; line art; battery design and placement; right down to the detailing on the inside back cover; boot up sequence; top level information architecture; use of graphical assets and fully working Media Bar button. Room for improvement? Integration with online services; graphic designer needs to go on a typography course.

What does it mean that so many people are buying mobiles based on pirated designs? Companies will turn more and more to services (shopping, location awareness, e-mail, etc.) that can't be faked to up the value of their (real) products. Also, Chipchase suspects - as do I - that as companies like Apple move into China, they will push for applications that phone home to Apple servers and verify their authenticity with some kind of code or indentifier. The result? Real phones will track your every move. Fake phones will have less functionality, but will make you less trackable in the end.

via Jan Chipchase's Future Perfect

This sudden and aggressive embrace of modern day technology is completely irresponsible, it's just like the time they brought a full-sized Terminator into San Diego Comic Con. Don't they know the machines are trying to manipulate us like cattle?

The "terminate me" iPhone App allows you to turn anyone into a damaged cyborg, with metal and red eyes showing beneath the artificial skin. It reminds me a little of the cylon detector app - but I'll give a special emoticon wink to the first person who can upload a baby duck terminator.

Now the upcoming movie Terminator Salvation has come to Twitter, with the recent launch of the Resistance2018 game. The premise: Twitter users can help in the fight against Skynet and the Terminators, earning points that bump them up the leaderboard, for... actually, I'm not really sure what. But I'm rather skeptical about becoming Twitter buds with all the Resistance fighters. I'm not too keen on reading John Connor tweets that he's "totally loling at Bizkit the Sleepwalking dog."

iPhone Eyeball Defense We're tired of remembering multiple passwords and having to download a password manager that can be accessed by junior level hackers. It's time to enter the future of self-indication - iris scanners. Thankfully, OKI has harnessed this technology for mobile phones. This is a positive development: we want to live in the a world where you cut out people's eyeballs out before stealing their iPhone, like in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report.

iPhone Caste Identifier 'I Am Rich', the $999 application that placed a one-of-a-kind digital red gem on your iPhone was recently removed from the App Store. It opened a hole in the luxury iPhone market, and it has grown a little bit each day. And yet such class-based markings could provide important information to police officers, as in Logan's Run.

In the film, Michael York's red crystal signals the end of his lifeclock. iPhone users can be classified slightly differently: according to their devotion to Steve Jobs. Or perhaps according to how many apps they've downloaded. Or even just how much money is in their checking accounts. Don't let your iPhone be your status symbol. Let it be a broadcasting device that lets people know about all your other status symbols too.

iPhone Gecko Bonder The iPhone needs to use nanotechnology to communicate with other objects. Paul Di Fillipo's short story "...And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" describes amalgamations of household objects as dangerous composite objects called blebs:

Most devices nowadays were made with MEMS skins. Their surfaces were interactive, practically alive, formed of zillions of individual actuators...Like the paws of geckos, there MEMS surfaces could bind to dumb materials and to other MEMS skins via the Van der Waals force, just as a gecko could skitter across the ceiling.

Objects possessed by the Volition Bug would writhe, slither, and crawl to join together, forming strange new assemblages, independent entities with unfathomable cybernetic goals of their own.

By connecting with your toaster, the iPhone can let the device know exactly how long to toast your bread. Or merge with your DVR so you can mess with all your iTunes content via your TV.

iPhone Spouse Trainer We want phones packed with sentient computer intelligences that you can address with your vocal cords instead of your index finger. A little "human" interaction would improve our lives in every way. Even our love lives. After all, Futurama's Bender fell in love with his ship's computer, which is something we have wanted to do with an Apple ever since we watched Scotty try to communicate directly with a Mac in Star Trek IV.

A voice-activated AI programmed with the intelligence of your actual partners could potentially save a marriage. You could even rehearse fights before having them at home. Your partner won't have to remind you to take out the trash 1,000 times - now your iPhone can do it for them, in that same kindly tone of voice.

iPhone Scramble Suit There's no reason you need to carry an iPhone and a can of mace when you're walking in a dangerous area. The lightsaber app won't help when the robber tosses your cash aside and announces how much he loves the new 3G. But Apple's firm hold over distribution in the App Store slowed down developers even after they abolished non-disclosure agreements, and of course Apple will never want the liability involved in turning the iPhone into a weapon. That means it'll be more effective to have an app that disguises your iPhone, making it look like a ham sandwich, or a Blackberry. What we want is the iPhone Scramble Suit, the clothing from A Scanner Darkly that camouflages people by making them look like other people.

iPhone Surveillance NanoBot Swarm Want to find out what your professor is typing into her computer as she creates tomorrow's test? Or maybe you just need to know what's happening behind a certain closed door. That's why we want the iPhone nanobot swarm surveillance app, inspired by the surveillance swarms in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Just activate this app and your iPhone releases a small swarm of surveillance bots that feed information back to your phone via something faster than wifi — this is the future, remember. We're just not sure if iPhone apps lead to an apocalyptic future, or something nicer.

For historical reference: Top 10 iPhone Applications [Lifehacker]