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Increasingly, the iPhone and iPad are becoming go-to devices for taking, editing, and sharing photos. With powerful, built-in cameras and Internet connections, you don't need a second device or a computer to take photos and share them with friends on the go. Filter apps like Crazy Photo Booth 2 take this to the next level by providing multiple ways to transform or add effects to your photos. Is this particular app worth the download, however? It depends on what types of filters you need.

Crazy Photo Booth 2 is free and features the standard ad bars that are found … Read more

Psy's smash hit got everyone doing the signature horsey dance. The Gangnam Style Dance Booth Hits app claims to let you paste your face on the South Korean singer, but never works. It won't let you create video thanks to dozens of pop-up ads that take over your screen.

Before you even finish looking at the app's privacy policy, it starts hitting you with ads for games. Any time you try to do anything else with the app, more pop-ups come flying at you. Once you finally make it to the app's welcome screen, it asks … Read more

LAS VEGAS -- The readership here bathes in its sophistication.

It doesn't stoop to sexism. It believes the gratuitous use of the female body should be outlawed.

However, every year, it needs to be informed as to whether some company has decided to present scantily clad dancing girls in order to attract attendees to its wares.

Just, you know, for sociopolitical reasons.

In my duty as your representative, I stormed as many halls as my thighs could muster this morning. I kept one eye open for the sort of curious spectacles as that presented last year by robotics company TOSY. … Read more

The Web's hottest video Gangnam Style has inspired a goofy dance craze. You don't have to learn new steps to see what it might look like if you did it, though. People with two left feet can do Psy's signature dance with Gangnam Style Booth. It's a little picky about which photos you can use, but it's good enough for a silly laugh at your own or a friend's expense.

Gangnam Style Booth lets you paste your face onto Psy or the bizarre elevator guy from the music video. You'll see a preview … Read more

Heart Booth is a photo collage app that lets you select a general shape and then apply a mosaic of photos in the same shape. The basic app is free from iTunes, and there's a full version available for 99 cents. Heart Booth installs easily.

To use Heart Booth you choose a basic shape from more than 120 in the app, or you can draw your own shape if you wish using your finger or keyboard. You then select a tile from the grid that is superimposed over the shape, and start taking photos with the camera (or choosing … Read more

CamWow Retro is an iOS app that lets you take photos with antique effects applied to them. Whether a sepia-tint or grainy black-and-white images, there's a lot of effects you can apply. CamWow Retro is a free app and installs easily.

The CamWow Retro interface is based on a larger app called CamWow Pro and works the same way. When activated, the app opens an interface with four panes. One shows the image from the camera natively, and the other three panes show various effects in real time. You can scroll through a few screens of effects to find … Read more

Body Symbol Free: The Romantic Heart Photo Booth is an app that guides you in creating romantic photos. It does this by helping you shape your body into different positions that then are mosaicked into a larger photo of a heart, for example. Body Symbol Free: The Romantic Heart Photo Booth is a free app available from the App Store; it installs quickly.

The intent of Body Symbol Free: The Romantic Heart Photo Booth is to help you position your body by matching an onscreen outline. These images are then combined into a larger tiled image to match a shape … Read more

Flat photos are so last year. What may be the world's first 3D photo booth is about to open in Japan. The Omote 3D photo booth creates action-figure-size versions of posing people.

Unlike an old-fashioned photo booth, you will only get one "photo." This might not be the best way to capture a proposal, for example. You and your soon-to-be-fiance would just be standing there as you wait the 15 minutes it takes for the 3D scanner to capture your image.… Read more

Wild birds are notoriously fickle photography subjects. Getting up-close pics usually requires an expensive camera, a honking zoom lens, and the ability to hold extremely still for long periods of time.

The $149 Bird Photo Booth on Kickstarter combines a bird-feeding platform with a place to stash a camera for taking avian glamor shots without upsetting the skittish subjects. The device comes with foam insert adapters for iPhone, iPod Touch, and GoPro cameras. A universal Android insert is under development.… Read more