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Your phone to guess how old you are. ReconAge with the makers would be able to. The app tries using a photograph to guess your age. ReconAge look at your biometrics and make an estimate on that basis. You do need an internet connection to be able to get answers. The Android app is primarily meant to be funny and should lead to much laughter during an evening with friends. The company behind the app says to use the same facial recognition software that uses the advertising industry to ensure that their ads will link to the right people. Good appreciation of all ages is not guaranteed, so the results you need with a little salt. If you are younger than fifteen years, the margin for error is greater. ReconAge thought I was two years older than I am actually am, which is a reasonably good bet. The app is especially fun to use once at a party, but it seems the fun is really off. ReconAge is free to download in the Android Market. The minimum you need to Android 2.2 ap...

Sculpteo: Put your face on a mug with 3D iPhone App

The iPhone app of the French company Sculpteo makes it easy for anyone to use a 3D printer or a vase to make their own cup. By the app from a photograph of the side of your face, you can try it in three dimensions on a piece of tableware and place on the website of the service order. Currently there are five pieces of crockery from Sculpteo order: three cups and two vases. There are also several other items available such as an auto-adjust iPhone case or an artifact, but this can not be the contours of your face, use the design to adapt. You make the app from a photograph of the side of your face, then the lines are detected automatically by the app. Next, you specify where your brow and your chin will start. This you have to do with a neutral background: there is something in the background, then picks up the app as it is sometimes the contours of your face. Then you get a 3D model of the result to see that you can order the selected object. The cheapest cup will c...

Douwe Egberts iPhone app helps you make coffee

On seeing the app 'Douwe Egberts' you may think that Douwe Egberts gift catalog has finally been converted to an iPhone app. But no, this app is made by the British branch of Douwe Egberts and helps you make coffee with a cafetière (also called French Press). In such a machine, pour water on the ground coffee and press the 'mash' down over time. There's a lot to look for a perfect cup of coffee, so the one app made sure. This will give you instructions tailored to the desired strength and taste. A timer warns when it's time to push the screen down and to pour the coffee. Once you have the ideal combination of brewing time and amount of coffee found, you can use the app the next time to put such a perfect cup. There are also some fun facts about constipating and coffee - of course English. In the Netherlands, Douwe Egberts brought before the Pause THE app from which you can meet up with friends in places where they serve coffee. Instructional vide...

Samsung SwipeIt: iOS stream content to your Samsung Smart TV

The buzzing in the rumor mill about the app movl SwipeIt. The new app allows you to stream multimedia content from your iOS device or Android phone to a Samsung Smart TV. It must be a device from 2011, only it is whether there is an official app from Samsung themselves. The coming days will clear if the app Samsung announced at CES 2012. SwipeIt could be a competitor to Apple's AirPlay. Moreover, Samsung DLNA-based AllShare been a competitor for AirPlay. A blog posting on an internet site of the relatively unknown @ akumar suggests that it is an official app is from Samsung. Android phones, the app is available for a week. Samsung would the app to all Smart TV's from 2011 to push. As the rumors even further strengthens, that SwipeIt using the Samsung logo. The original creator of the app, movl, claiming that they work closely with Samsung, but that they may say nothing about. A banner displays the text "Powered by movl / Samsung. Tweeted earlier today the...

Action Movie FX: spectacular explosions and special effects in your iPhone videos

Action Movie FX is an app that we in the newsroom has experienced many hilarious moments. The free app provides special effects oals explosions, fireballs and cars that flop down on a particular scene. Film such as a friend, while quietly sitting on the couch reading a book and ... BOOM! With a large fireball, everything vanished entirely. Even better is if you arrange in advance what the victim of his acting skills show, by looking up in fear or run away. Hollywood special effects are thus very easy to do. Nice if you during the holidays with family and friends want to see what cool things you can do using the iPhone can do. It works like this: you make a movie of a scene, such as a parking lot with parked cars. Then the desired effect is applied, such as a vuurbom or a car explosion. This is accompanied by realistic sound effects so real it almost impossible to distinguish. You can indicate where in the video the explosion to take place, so you can focus on specific individuals....