After a long, cold winter, summer finally did arrive, and if this month’s NY Tech Meetup is any indication, it seems that this is when things – and tech – really gets hot. And that the tech community put all of those long cold winter nights to good use…
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Blippar
A unique new app, Blippar describes itself as an “image recognition platform” working with over eight hundred brands. The app recognizes product labels to create alternate-reality interactive menus and media, and cooperating brands encourage users to use the app through their ads. For example, you can see recipes involving a specific food or check out a certain color of nail polish on your hands.
Vosmap
Ever wonder what the inside of a specific store looked like before you got there? Vosmap answers that question. You get to view the interiors of businesses; business owners can use these photos to display and promote new products or services. It’s an add-on to Google maps for expanded street views.
Knozen
Knozen is a discovery platform for personalities, specifically those of your coworkers and peers. Play short rounds to rank people on fun questions such as orders at Starbucks, or more meaningful inquiries involving social attributes. The app generates live data and dynamic personality descriptions on the fly, allowing users to see what their peers think of them. Basically, they’re crowd-sourcing personality profiles.
72Lux/Shoppable
72Lux is the home of shoppable, a one-stop destination for online shopping. Create shopping lists/bags involving items from different sites, and pay for them all through a single checkout process. Shoppable also includes a universal search across all the sites it works with.
Electric Objects
A unique means of viewing art, Electric Objects presents a wall-mounted IPS display to portray vibrant images and visuals downloaded from their online gallery of user-submitted pieces. The display runs on android, uses about as much energy as a light bulb, and instantly changes to different images wirelessly. The company has a kickstarter campaign launching this week.
Amicus
Amicus is a unique site which works with nonprofit organizations, to get users to send postcards to their Facebook friends. It confirms addresses for friends through public data, and you can customize the cards with specific messages and images from the nonprofit you’re trying to support.
The Satellite
A new way to literally view the world, The Satellite offers a live view of the earth from the International Space Station, by combining real-time imagery and remote sensing data from hundreds of satellites. Generated from a gaming engine built from scratch, billions of pixels build layers of land and atmosphere to render a real time three-dimensional view of our planet. The project is aiming for an installation in Brooklyn.
Syncmotion
An app “to connect physical devices to the physical world,” Syncmotion aims to make workout data more accurate by recognizing specific workouts and reps. Using a smartwatch and sensor attached to a weight, the data generated from the motions created is transferred to the app and shown to users in real time.
FieldLens
An easier means of communication and synchronization for construction projects, FieldLens is a one-app solution for managing all the aspects of a busy construction process. Take photos and video to track progress, view schematics, track part orders and more with multiple users. Constantly edit and add to your tasks, and other users can see these edits as a live feed to allow for collaboration in real time.
PictureLife
Presented by NYTM host Nate Westheimer, PictureLife aims to be a one-stop managing platform for all your photos, through a website/desktop program/mobile app and cloud storage. Directly back up all the photos from your devices in one spot, and use metadata to map photo locations and set dynamic search parameters. Photos can be shared privately or publicly, and can even be sent to Shutterfly for physical media.