PSFK Picks: Top Five Apps Of The Week

Each week PSFK features many new and innovative apps. To give the best their due, we’ve compiled a roundup of the most interesting and creative apps written about on the site this past week:

Schwepps App Scans Facebook To Reveal Your Future

Beverage company Schweppes has launched the Unexpected Future app that predicts how the year would pan out for the user through snippets of posts in the Facebook Timeline format. By analyzing your Facebook data, the app reveals your potential larger-than-life achievements with grand predictions in categories such as wealth, career, adventure, romance and fame. It takes you through Facebook posts that have comments left by friends in your social network.

China Patterns Come To Life With Augmented Reality

British ceramic designer Andrew Tanner teamed up with the award-winning animation studio Unanico Group and Royal Winton to present ‘English Hedgerow,’ a contemporary Chintz design porcelain collector’s plate that transforms into digital art using augmented reality.

Interactive Documentary Lets Users Experience The Forest Through Augmented Reality

Funded by NFB, Canada’s public producer and distributor, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison directed Bear 71, an app-enabled interactive documentary and installation in Utah. The work presents a powerful story from the perspective of a female grizzly bear who comments on the Banff National Park rangers tracking her to reveal insights on the relationship of wildlife to the digital world. The emotional narrative provides insight on the conditions of wildlife in the age of networks, information exchange, and digital surveillance and more importantly draws a striking parallel between how the web tracks people to gather information and how animals are surveilled to provide security.

Foursquare App Shows Check-Inns On A Mock Airport Arrival Board

‘Arrivals‘ is a Foursquare app styled after a classic airport arrivals board. Its clean and attractive design enhances a user’s experience of the social media platform by showing the location of friends without being too intrusive. The app is intended to be displayed on a spare second screen like a tablet or phone so you can see at a glance where your friends are.

New App Gamifies Personal Growth To Boost Physical And Mental Health

With a host of new personal technologies and interactive platforms to help users track and improve their individual health and wellness hitting the market in recent months, entrepreneurs and software designers are jumping on board the ‘Quantified Self’ bandwagon. The movement, which believes in the idea of better living through data-driven insights, has shown growth beyond stat geeks and early adopters and seems poised to break out beyond its niche beginnings.