Your personal shopping assistant. It's mobile, informative, and smart.
Have you ever found yourself in the supermarket staring at a shelf full of different cereal boxes, wishing someone could just point out the one with the best price, lowest sugar content, and the best reviews? New solutions for smarter retail will soon give customers the same type of information they get online when researching or comparing products – delivered inside the store as they shop. A new augmented reality mobile shopping app being developed by researcher scientists at IBM’s lab in Haifa, Israel, is about to change the way we shop in stores. When shoppers use their smart phone or tablet video camera to pan over products on the shelf, the application will instantly display recommendations and offers based on their specific preferences.
As the shopper points a smart device camera at the shelf of moisturizers in the pharmacy, the app recognizes the merchandise and displays information on the device’s screen, superimposed on the product images. AR App Will Help You Shop Smarter. Find out if your health food is really healthy.
Photo: IBM. Yelp iOS app updated with lots of 'awesomeness' iPhone and iPad users who tap into Yelp will find a few enhancements in the latest version.
Rolled out yesterday, version 6 of the review site's iOS app has revamped its business pages. An App that Could Stop Traffic. Car Finder Apps: iPad/iPhone Apps AppGuide. Overview Everyone loses track of their car.
Thanks to the iPhone's GPS, compass, and data connection, these apps have some true potential to help you in times of need. We have gathered up the best car tracking apps in the App Store and compared them in this AppGuide. Essential Apps $0.99 Honk - Find Car, Parking Meter Alarm and Nearby Places by Math Game House LLC Honk - Park, Swipe to set Parking Meter Alarm and Find Your Car! Notable Apps. Apps to help prevent car accidents.
There are few things that upset me as much as distracted driving.
The road is dangerous enough even when you are paying attention. The biggest culprit behind distracted driving is phone use. Even if you have a hands-free device, anything that takes your focus away from the road is potentially life-threatening. But there are also some very cutting-edge apps that try to improve your awareness of the road, rather than inhibit it. They use advanced augmented reality, or AR technology, to do it. iOnRoad (Free; Android) – iOnRoad is an award-winning app with many great features. AR app brings back the ghost of road accidents. Spotting accidents. iPhone apps help track sex offenders, spot crime. SpotCrime for iPhone. 5 Augmented Reality Apps That Make You Feel Like a Superhero. 9 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Reddit 0 StumbleUpon 0 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 Google+ 9 9 Flares ×
AR apps turn smartphones into digital tour guides. It’s the traveller’s curse: You’ve journeyed far from home, and you’re ready to experience all it has to offer.
But in this unfamiliar town, street signs look like hieroglyphics, the waiter at the local restaurant doesn’t understand your dinner order, and you have no idea where you should start exploring or how to get there. Luckily, your smartphone knows how to do all that for you. Now, with augmented reality (AR) apps that make tourist recommendations, directions and even language translations instantly pop up through your phone’s camera view, travellers have access to data about their new city right at their fingertips. Welcome to the digital vacation — a nifty, less aggravating way to travel that may threaten the survival of old-school travel guidebooks. The beauty of these apps is that it shows you directions around the city in a 3D manner. Mr. A fourth mobile AR app focusing on touring the city’s outlying islands is also in the works, Mr. An Augmented Reality app for tourism? The Museum of London recently launched its own Augmented Reality (AR) app called StreetMuseum for the iPhone.
How it works Simply select a destination in London from your phone’s GPS and hold your phone up from your present street location reveal the same location from many years in the past. The app will recognize the location and overlay a historical image over the live video feed of the real world. Wikitude 7. eRTR_SI_V10i2_Yovcheva_Buhalis_Gatzidis_63-66. CultureClic Augmented Culture PARIS. Cntraveler - disappointment with AR apps. UrbanSpoon Makes It Easier to 'Scope' Out Restaurants. What Are the Different Types of Augmented Reality Apps?
The Urban Nomad: Evolving out of Mobile Technology, Part I. This is a community post, untouched by our editors. we mirror nomadic behavior by moving between new digital landscapes, and accessing technology and devices Tweet Share We live in a society that is tethered to mobile devices and allows us to relentlessly engage in instant, yet location‐independent lifestyles, transforming the modern day consumer into an urban nomad.
Meaning, we mirror nomadic behavior by moving between new digital landscapes, and accessing technology and devices that allow us to interact with friends, consume media and work from almost anywhere in the world. We not only access these technologies remotely, but also move from one source to another for information. We move where the information is, whether it is directly from the news source, Twitter, Facebook and more. Via Flickr.com / lovehatetravel Ninety percent of journalists use Twitter, Facebook and blogs on a daily basis to monitor and report information Tweet Share Via Flickr.com / 27132029@N06.