Gizmodo reports that the Yelp iPhone app has a special Easter egg program hidden inside of it. Named Monocle, it’s an augmented reality app that is only accessible by shaking the device three times.
After the AR feature is unlocked, icons of Yelp-reviewed establishments will begin to pop-up on your screen, showing locations, ratings, and reviews for restaurants in your surrounding area.
Gearlive has a video demo:

[via Gizmodo]

A couple of weeks ago I suggested in a post that the application market could grow to be as large as the web and that we shouldn’t be wondering when the ‘boom’ was going to end. Now, commentators on a panel at the VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference have suggested that the number of apps will grow by 100,000 a year and that in ten years we may see 10 billion mobile applications. The BBC reports:
“Apps will be as big if not bigger than the internet,” according to Ilja Laurs, chief executive of GetJar, a leading independent application store. They will peak [...]

Wired UK carries gossip that the next iteration of the iPod Touch will carry a camera and microphone. As I read it I notice the cordless phone on my table an old iPod connected to the kitchen radio. These older iPods are becoming [...]

A year after the launch of Apple’s application store, some 56,000 applications are now available for users of the iPhone and iPod Touch. While several commentators wonder when this boom will end, the PSFK team thinks that asking that type of question is a little like asking when the number of websites would stop growing back in 1994. Apps are the new website, no? Some apps are going to be tremendously popular and others will potter along with a few downloads but still keeping their makers’ happy.
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