• by Mark Walsh  @markfwal, May 26, 2010

After being announced in March, Wired magazine's digital edition for the iPad has finally launched. The $4.99 app built buy Adobe (but not using Flash) enhances Wired's graphics-laden pages with interactive elements and multimedia including video and animation. A piece on the history of Mars landings let readers virtually explore the red planet and touching the June issue cover story on "Toy Story 3" starts a video clip from the movie.

In a post about the new iPad edition, Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson said the app will integrate social media and offer a variety of versions and ways to subscribe to the move in digital form in the next few months. "We'll learn through experimentation, and we will watch closely as our readers teach us how they want to use tablets," he wrote.

The Wired app included nine of the premium iPad ads that publisher Conde Nast sells only to advertisers who buy multiple ads in print editions, according to Ad Age. The launch iPad issue includes ads from Fidelity and the HBO series "True Blood." Conde Nast has already launched iPad and iPhone versions of GQ and Vanity Fair.