Weekly Mashup 44

The iPad app that lets you hang augmented reality artwork on your wall

Pixels.com’s new iPad app lets you visualise exactly how a piece of art will look hanging on your wall by using augmented reality to take a photograph of it in your own home.

How mobile technology is having a massive impact on the way people shop

Business Daily profiles a number of mobile-based consumer habits that will only grow and grow in the coming years, from making online payments on a phone to pulling augmented reality content from display units in-store.

Sky invests further $400,000 in virtual reality start-up Jaunt

Satellite broadcaster Sky is investing another $400,000 in Silicon Valley tech start-up Jaunt, more than doubling its investment in the virtual reality venture.

Introducing Skully, the augmented reality motorcycle helmet with 180-degree views

Popular Mechanics test drives an AR helmet named Skully whose built-in rear-view camera offers wearers a 180-degree view of what's behind them, an image of which is then projected on a heads-up display (HUD) in front of the rider.

The Finnish startup using hand gestures to control Google Glass

Finnish startup Augumenta has built an AR platform for wearable tech such as Google Glass, allowing the wearer to interact with the display just by waving hands in front of it.

Awesome products using augmented reality

The Huffington Post picks a handful of their top applications of augmented reality, including the AR car window screen, AR contact lenses, Google Glass, the Microsoft headband, and virtual reality gaming.

3D photo-editing app Matter arrives on iPhone

Pixite has released Matter, a new photo-editing app for iPhone and iPad which enables the embedding and manipulation of 3D objects in your photography. And the result is all quite spectacularly Back To The Future.

The inevitable rise of wearable tech (and somebody wearing ALL of it)

By 2015 it is predicted that 2.8 million people will be in possession of some sort of wearable tech. (Which sounds less than it actually is, given the stuff only came onto the market fairly recently.) So Phones 4U did an experiment, dressing one of their staff up in all the wearable tech they could find.