TomTom to offer navigation technology for Acer smartphones

TomTom and Acer have entered a multi-year agreement to bring navigation technology to Acer’s mobile devices. The companies introduced the NavKit-powered AcerNAV, a turn-by-turn navigation app that will let you navigate anywhere in the world without additional roaming charges. It features route planning and interactive 2D and 3D maps that you can download for free. The rollout for the app with start in Europe during the last quarter of this year.

Todoist now supports iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

To-do list app Todoist finally releases a new update that supports iOS 8 and the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. It has a new user interface with adaptive layouts and now supports Safari Action Extension and Interactive Push Notifications. This means you can directly add text and images from Safari into your tasks.

Source: Todoist Blog | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

Gepeto app brings augmented-reality into storytelling

Gepeto wants to harness your kids’ imagination with its app that will let them craft animated stories right on the iPad using puppet gestures. You can think of it as a virtual green screen to help your kids get creative. They can make up stories using any 2D or 3D animations and they can control the characters using puppets that mimic their natural play. They are running an IndieGoGo campaign starting today until December 22. You can find out more information here.

Key Ingredient introduces Android tablet for the kitchen

Sometimes the help you need in the kitchen comes from gadgets. Key Ingredient is bringing you the kitchen-safe Recipe Tablet. It comes with hundreds of preloaded recipes and gives you access to more than two million more, making it one of the largest (if not the largest) resource for recipes online in North America. It will even let you add your own recipes so you can keep everything in one place.

The Recipe Tablet comes with text-to-speech technology so you can have it reading the recipes out to you while you stir that pot. It has a heat resistant silicon case that makes it easy to clean and it is Wi-Fi-capable Android device that’ll let you check your email, play games and music, and run other apps while you wait for your cake to bake and the like. The Recipe Tablet retails for US$149.95.

Source: Key Ingredient