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How often do you see something cool, and say to yourself “i’ll have to remember to order that” or “Crap, why didn’t i just go there when I needed a replacement for my shattered Lava Lamp?”. Well, I may be one of the few with a shattered Lava Lamp but I am sure you all want to know where I found a Lava Lamp shop in Miami. But, of course, I didn’t write it down and I have no idea where it is. To fix this problem, enter Deja Vu, the iPhone app of my dreams.
Think of the app as categorized visual memory. You take a quick picture. Lots of people use their camera as a memory device, but without a way to categorize everything, you just get a ton of pictures. With this app, each picture you take is stored as a visual memo. Then, all of your visual memos are analyzed using image recognition. When it recognizes things in your pictures, it categorizes and label them automatically. If the app doesn’t recognize it, you can enter the information manually. The software makes it easy to find things again. You can browse by category, search by keyword, or find your visual memos by location on a map. It also syncs with the cloud. Which is pretty cool. You end up with a database of items you wanted to remember, so you brain doesn’t have to remember it for you.
With all the stuff I have gushing into my brain regularly, any way to offload some of that to a different system works well for me. And the best part; its free. So next time I pass the Lava Lamp shop, I’ll enter it into Deja Vu and i’ll post it on the blog so you can all bask in the Lava Lamp’s glorious light.
NY Times Art & Design
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