

The images are decent, but sometimes there’s glare, and the orientation is a little off. Now the same division just unleashed ScanPhoto as an alternative to all of us who take photos of old photos with our smartphone. NEW WAY TO SCAN: Last year, Google gave us Google Photos, an app that organized your massive, growing photo collection with facial recognition, and no storage limits.

I tested it and loved the super-wide shots you could get on the GoPro camera, now steady for the first time.ģ. The action-cam maker has yet to put the Grip for sale as an accessory, but says it’s coming soon. But then the drone started falling from the skies, and GoPro recalled the product. Runner-up goes to the GoPro Karma Grip, a similar steadicam on a stick for your GoPro, which initially was included with the price of the $1,100 Karma drone. The original battery lasts only about 30-45 minutes. If you’re reading this over the weekend, DJI has a Black Friday deal with a free extra battery (worth $35), which you will need. Use it, and your fans might think you hired a helicopter to come along with you for the shoot. In 2015, DJI introduced the Osmo as a unit with a dedicated camera for $550 this year it went mass market with the Mobile, which uses your smartphone camera to record the fluid, smooth images, using the motors of the gimbal, a feature on many drones, to steady your shots. Not so with augmented reality, as the raging popularity of Pokémon Go attested. While these all won praise for their quality, they've lacked the "killer app" that's made everyone - from nephews to grandmothers - want to try it. This, for all its silliness, is augmented reality, a far cry from costly, immersive virtual-reality headsets produced by Facebook's Oculus, Samsung, HTC and Google. The red-hot Spectacles video glasses, released at the end of the year, don’t have AR-you shoot regular 10-second video clips that can be viewed on Snapchat. But it’s not hard to imagine what the product could morph into eventually with AR. In November, it went one step further with the introduction of “World Lenses,” which put smiles onto ordinary clouds in the background of your photo, or add falling rain or snow to an image.

Snapchat, the app originally beloved for sending photos that could disappear within 10 seconds, has expanded into a service some 150 million visit daily, fueled by the selfie lens, where you can add cat ears and rainbow tongues to your photos and videos.
