Instagram Instaglasses Concept by Markus Gerke

By now you’re probably aware that you can use Instagram to make smartphone photos appear more aesthetically pleasing using the app’s filters, but what if you could apply those filters to the world around you? That’s the concept behind these Instaglasses, developed by Berlin-based designer Markus Gerke. The instructions are relatively straightforward: activate the pre-set...

Xbox Unveils Revolutionary SmartGlass App

Microsoft unveiled a new product at the E3 convention, a bold new vision for consuming entertainment at home and on the go with Xbox SmartGlass. Launching this year, SmartGlass is an application for Windows-based technology that connects phones, PCs and tablets with the Xbox 360 to make entertainment smarter and more interactive. Segueing entertainment from one device to the other,...

Available in 3D: Google Earth & Google Maps

Its all about 3D these days. During a special event this week, Google announced the latest developments for its Google Earth and Google Street View products; they will be going 3D as well. Thanks to an all new technology, Google is able to create photorealistic 3D interactive maps of entire cities, allowing you to explore a city with Google Earth in a helicopter like view. You will be...

SceneTap App Lets Party-Goers Know Who Is Making Up The Crowd

SceneTap is a new app developed in San Francisco that can estimate the age and gender of scanned faces. It’s designed to be used in bars and clubs where bouncers can scan the faces of patrons. The demographics is then updated live on the user’s phone, displaying data such as crowd size, average age, and ratio of women and men. The information is able to help potential consumers...

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram

Incase you haven’t heard, Facebook has recently released a new app titled, the Facebook Camera app. Interestingly enough, the Social Media giant recently acquired the photography app, which only makes us ask why Facebook would cannibalize itself with this camera app. Why create an app which is seemingly a direct competitor to Instagram right after you bought it? After all of...

Hoppit: Chose a Restaurant Based on Ambiance

There are already a variety of methods you can use to find a restaurant but what if you wanted base you choice off of mood? Check out Hoppit, the first site to provide a dining-out search engine which filters its results based on the ambience of venues. Based in Manhattan and currently available in 25 cities in the US, each restaurant in the Hoppit database is tagged with one of ten...

GeocodedArt App Turns the World into a Museum

  Many places in the world have served as inspiration for some of the most famous art works. Now, if you find yourself in a foreign land, you can forget about using an art guide and use the geocodedArt and give yourself a tour of the historic locations that inspired famous works of fine art there. This new project looking for funding on Kickstarter, and has gathered a database of...

Control Your Dreams with the Yumemiru App

As the saying goes, dream big, but how can you dream big when you don’t have much control over your dreams? Optimizing your life/lifestyle is a trend that will never go away. Who doesn’t want to be more effecient or have better surroundings? Well now you can optimize your dreams with the Japanese smartphone app Yumemiru. The Yumemiru app lets you maximize the time you spend...