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Augment Your 3GS Reality – Yelp for iPhone 3GS

The new Yelp application on the iPhone 3GS has an awesome Easter egg: Augmented Reality. I’ve been really looking forward to trying this out, but note you do need to have an iPhone 3GS for this to work right now.

Once you download the app to your iPhone 3GS, you need to open Yelp and shake it a bit ( I’ve heard 3 times, but it took like 5 for mine to work ) until a message about Monocle being activated pops up.

Then you’ll see the ‘Monocle’ button on the top right; hit it and you’ll see a camera view with restaurants and other stuff with reviews shown in little tabs overlaying the camera view like in the pictures.

Unfortunately my iPhone’s compass doesn’t seem to be very accurate. I did the ‘figure 8′ thing a couple times, and it helps for a bit, but my iPhone seems to ‘drift’ off actual North after a couple seconds. I’m inside, so perhaps with a good GPS fix it’ll be more accurate. I’m still really happy with this surprise from the folks at Yelp, it makes this great app even better.

[Thanks: http://the-gadgeteer.com]

Sennheiser MM 50: iPhone Accessory Review

Sennheiser is German company that specializes in high end audio equipment like microphones, headphones and more. Of course they did not forget iPhone users, and have a wide selection of audio products for your phone. One of their products is relatively inexpensive headset Sennheiser MM 50.

MM 50 is very well made and looks stylish. Shiny black rounded plastic with Sennheiser logo, together with a small metal ring on the front. Since the earphones are small they might look a little fragile but I am sure it’s not the case. These are one of the tiniest earphones I’ve ever used. Once you put them in ear, they don’t stick out. Very discrete! Sennheiser engineers must have worked really hard to make this happen.
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