A new app aims to tell you everything you want to know about bell peppers and other food. Photo by buzz.bishop
An award winning app may soon be the ticket to a healthier lifestyle, or at least healthier choices at the supermarket. The Augmented Living mobile app or AUG works by allowing users to scan the barcodes of grocery store items with a smartphone camera.
Scan a cucumber and you can find out how many beneficial vitamins it has on the display screen of your phone. Scan a parcel of salami to uncover how many calories it has. In addition to nutritional facts, the app can also provide data about pricing and even where the product was grown.
AUG recently won the top prize at the Consumer Electronics Association’s annual Greener Gadgets Design Competition in New York, but it’s not widely available yet. The designers are currently waiting on funding and further developments to their barcode system, however, an early edition of the app could be available near you within the year.
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Ooh awesome app! I need to check this out.
i think its really great that there are apps telling people what food is healthy, but i think that companies need to expand which companies they create programs for. as a blackberry user it really sucks that everything is for iphone. iphone is a great phone, don't get me wrong, but at&t is expensive, and for those who are on a budget i think that iphones are no on budget. anyways i like programs that help people stay healthy. america really needs to be more healthy.