We’ve covered augmented reality applications quite a lot in the recent days, such as the Suwappu – an app that brings toy characters to life with 3D augmented reality environments, and today we wanted to share how Becks (a renowned beer brand) is turning everyday landmarks and locations into beautiful works of art.
If you have a furry companion, you’re going to love this new idea: Stayhound is a BnB for pets. Currently in Beta, and only available in Portland, Stayhound is a service that helps you find a local pet sitter.
We’ve been discussing children’s apps within the New-Startups.com team recently and what goes into making a successful kid’s app. Does the design have to be imaginative or does the user experience / ease of use of have to be a more dominant factor? Children have boundary-less imagination and trying not to stifle that creativity while still developing a kid-friendly application can be a daunting task. But when we stumbled upon Suwappu our debate heightened. This gorgeous and well thought-out application puts augmented-reality with a toy to be viewed on a smartphone, but is this app more for kids or an older demographic that collects toys and understands what augmented-reality is.
What if a greeting card could be much more then a meaningful message from a loved one? What if the message could then encompass technology and tie in a modern-day mixtape to go with the words, and now add music with the message. The team over at Stupid have created Playlist Cards for the technologically inclined to make that opportunity a reality.
CineSkates is a Kickstarter project that achieved its $20,000 goal in a day and has received over 1,400 backers with an astounding $331,497 in pledges with 7 days to go. When first hearing about CineSkates it was hard to understand why you would need to put a camera on a tripod for low level shots – would there really be enough locations and opportunities to use the invention to make it worthwhile? Well, check out the video below and see for yourself.
Recently Macy’s aligned with start-up Tight Fit to help take away the annoyance of finding the appropriate size for clothes to purchase online. Users would fill out a simple three-step profile through which the technology would notify, via a five-point rating system, which products are likely to fit. De Beers, in collaboration with creative agency AKQUA and 3d augmented reality makers Holation, have developed an application so user’s can see how De Beers jewelery collection will look on them.
Crunch.fm is a application that makes your Tweets more musical. By integrating the Crunch.fm application to your Twitter account, you can use their service to search for a track, listen to a stream of the track (via YouTube) and then share the track with your followers.
Productivity apps have been coming out in waves over the past year. While some have been better then others, they all have had a unique feature and design to make accomplishing tasks easier and hopefully more enjoyable. Moredays is also a productivity application, but slightly different. Developed by 5 diverse people (an artist, an entrepreneur, a handicapped father, a traveler and a student) whom all have different views of life, have come together to achieve the same goal: “to create an application which will enable them to plan, make notes and enjoy life with one tiny detail” in a fun way.
7 Billion Actions is a platform to share, help and contribute toward a better world for all people. Developed for individuals, businesses, governments, NGO’s, media and academia, the initiative is a playground to share and showcase stories, connections and actions. “7 Billion Actions will shine a bright light on the good works being done by
“Streetview Updating by Hertz” is a project that is utilizing crowdsourcing to help Google keep their streetview maps up-to-date. With a fleet of over 500,000 cars, Hertz has the equipment and consumer base to equip their rental cars with camera equipment in order to continually update Google’s Street View maps.