I just found out about this new app called Word Lens on CNN, so I’m sure the news of it’s release is spreading lightning fast at this point, and for good reason. It’s an augmented reality app that instantly swaps out text in different languages in our reality, on signs, in print, on the side [...]
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My buddy Jamey Erickson is always up to something interesting and fun. Whether launching weather balloons to take pictures of the outer stratosphere, prepping for his next outrageous Halloween costume (I’ll spare you the visuals) or just coming up with interesting ways to make his Minneapolis based design studio Sevnthsin an inspiring place to work… he’s bubbling [...] Like a kid in a camera store, I’m pretty excited about this discovery made and passed along by a friend of mine last week (Thanks Aaron!). These little lenses magnetically hold in place on any camera phone and judging from the shots on http://photojojo.com/ they really work! There are three lenses available -> Fisheye, Macro, and [...] This is an unusually long post for circuitbreaks, but I’m especially excited by this one because it is a good representation of where I see content delivery and story telling is going, and yes, already is… The hero of this story is ‘Mike’. Mike has walked almost 3,000 miles across the U.S. and documented his story [...] Oakland based computer programmer Eric Fischer has a very interesting photo set on his Flickr stream called ‘Locals and Tourists’. The set contains visualizations of various cities (seen above are NYC, San Francisco and London) photo activity of locals and tourists. The geotagging data is represented by different colors, blue = locals, red = tourists [...] Above are a few of my favorite pics from this past week that I took with my iPhone 3Gs. I used the ‘Plastic Bullet’ app from software company ‘Red Giant’ to add the interesting border effects and vignette treatment. ‘Plastic Bullet’ has quickly become my favorite filtering tool over ‘hipstamatic’ because I think the overall look [...] Big things happening on the Augmented Reality front as Layar announced the opening of it’s API to developers last week. Layar handed out 50 developer keys to select innovative companies from around the world. Taken from their press release -> “with a key it will be possible to create and publish digital layers within the [...] gravitytank // Apps Get Real from Teaque Lenahan on Vimeo. This is an interesting video produced by Chicago based innovation firm ‘Gravitytank‘ about the current state of and consumer usage of apps in general. Throughout the video there are some interesting bits of data that they have gathered through a 1,000-person quantitative survey. Worth checking out [...] Ever wonder where all those ‘tweets’ are coming from in comparison to your location? This beta version of TwittARound can do just that. It displays live ‘tweets’ through an augmented reality driven visualizer that works through your iPhone 3GS’s camera. You not only get a general idea of what direction the ‘tweet’ is coming from, [...] The idea of augmented reality through mobile devices has been baking for some time. This is first mobile Augmented Reality browser that I have seen in action and it premiers in the Netherlands. By using your mobile device as a lens into the world of information this innovative app promises to get you all the [...] Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo. This app has not released to the public yet but I bet a version of this app will become available soon as I see it as being pretty marketable and full of potential. It was created in response to Todd Vanderlin’s amazing augmented reality scratching concept (shown [...] iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo. I think we’ll start to see RFID technology infuse into our everyday lives more and more as our mobile devices evolve. It’s such a simple technology and it can be used in endless ways. Seen here, by holding the phone close to certain toys you get different video [...] This is a pretty thorough demo of the newly released Skype app for iPhone and iPod touch. I’ve been using Skype for a while now at home to keep up with my family and friends through their video calling tools and am excited by the idea of adding it to my iPhone. One thing to [...] |
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