Stimulus Money in Action

If you’ve ever driven down a narrow rural road marred by pot holes, or walked through a crowded street begging for a larger sidewalk, you might have wondered where all that economic stimulus money is going. Now there’s an app for that.

Just hold up your smart phone to the project in question and find out how much of the $787 billion dollars are being used to fix that road or build that bridge. It’s one of a slew of new augmented reality apps that overlay data from websites like recovery.gov on to real-time maps.

You can hold up your phone to a monument to learn about its history, or use facial-recognition technology to read a friend’s online profile and double check any social faux pas before you start a conversation. Next thing you know, they’ll release a smart phone that transforms into a hoverboard.

The Huffington Post: Layar App Maps Stimulus Money Onto The World Around You