Digitize Physical Prints With Google’s New PhotoScan App

With Google’s new PhotoScan app, one can digitize their physical photos at home using only the standard smartphone camera. It’s not quite up to par with a scanner, but it’s a substantial improvement upon snapping a photo of a photo and cropping. Using four points on the hard image, the app initiates a more accurate, thorough capture. Additionally, the Google Photos app also received an …

Matrix’s Body-Heat-Powered Smartwatch, PowerWatch

An advanced activity-tracker requiring no charging ever

One of the biggest challenges to activity- and sleep-tracking gadgets happens to be the disruption caused by charging. While battery life has improved for certain devices, anyone looking for a solid, entire day read loses accuracy for those power-up minutes. With the PowerWatch, which is at 185% of its Indiegogo goal at time of publish, the wearer’s body heat charges the versatile device while it’s …

The Madbury Club + Microsoft Surface Experiments

The multi-talented Brooklyn-based studio speak to us about their newest project designing a Mobile Projection Unit with the clever devices

Sponsored by Microsoft Surface

Founded in 2010, Brooklyn’s Madbury Club is a self-proclaimed “functionally dysfunctional studio experiment” made up of designers, artists, photographers, videographers, carpenters and makers of all kinds. Essentially, dealing in innovation and creation and a bunch of adventure, they were the perfect gang for Microsoft to join forces with to showcase the full potential of the new Surface Pro 4 and the Surface book. As part …