Hasta La Gadget!

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to add text to images. Since people are using their smartphones as their point-and-shoot cameras these days, it makes sense to have a way to add typography to the snapshots you take with your phone too.

Potluck’s Over app superimposes text in many colors and fonts to your photos. If you take beautiful photos, and wanted to add some beautiful text, getting the right app to do the job is important. Over will allow you to easily add extra meaning to all of those pics you take, and then quickly post them to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or share them via Email.

Over is currently available from the iTunes App Store for just $0.99(USD) – a discount from its normal price of $1.99. I look forward to reading your witty remarks in my Instagram feed.

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There’s a little quad-helicopter device coming to the market relatively soon known as the MeCam, developed and manufactured by the friendly folks at Always Innovating. This little chopper has its own video camera and will connect to your smartphone as well as follow you around automatically while otherwise accepting voice-commands galore. This little monster will also only cost you $49 USD.

What we’re seeing here is a palm-sized device that works with a single-core processor (Cortex A9 for the curious) and works with 1GB of RAM and keeps all its captured media on a microSD card. It has the ability to connect to your smartphone device with Bluetooth and wi-fi, and will be bringing on streaming video, video capture, and an automatic panorama photo mode. Inside this device you’ve got 14 sensors, 3 stabilization algorithms and more from the developers at Morpho – magicians of this modern mobile age.

The thing about the MeCam is that it’s not going to be made unless someone with the manufacturing power to make it takes on the investment. The team at Always Innovating is made up of developers and inventors, lacking the manufacturing connections to make this project a reality on their own. Always Innovating’s team is confident that they will find someone soon, however, and aim for a Q1 2014 release date – so you can keep your fifty dollar bill in your pocket for now.

This machine will almost certainly be working with connections to iOS and Android machines when it is lunched, as well as instant sharing abilities for YouTube, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest. Streaming video from this little gadget is not being pegged for any definite quality at the moment, nor is the quality of the camera as of yet. We’ll see more as the actual device comes around in a few months – we hope!

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MeCam delivers hovering, person-following video for $49 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s already 2013, and we are still pretty far away from flying cars, which were predicted decades ago. Then again, maybe we aren’t. Check out these clever photographs, featuring Jetsons-like hovering cars.

French photographer Renaud Marion captured these photos and tweaked them to make the cars look like they’re floating off the ground. This series of photos are called Air Drive and they’re inspired by how he imagined flying cars would have looked when he was a child.

I hope to see flying cars on the road (sky?) one day, but then again, I can already imagine the accidents – never mind the insurance premiums.

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