Microsoft recently debuted a new iOS app called "Sprinkles - Camera with Fun Ideas" [Direct Link], which launches alongside the recent explosion of camera-centric application updates that offer various filters, emojis, lenses, and captions for users to mess around with. The app officially launched on April 1, suggesting the company intended it as an April Fools' prank, but it's only recently begun to be noticed online, and as of writing remains on the App Store's "New apps we love" section.

Sprinkles has a slight advantage above its competitors from Facebook and Snapchat thanks to Microsoft's AI and machine learning abilities, which can "do things like detect faces, determine the photo subject’s age and emotion, figure out your celebrity look-a-like, suggest captions, and more" (via TechCrunch). The app can tell when a subject is frowning, for example, and automatically input a relevant caption, like "turn that frown upside down."

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Similar to Snapchat, Sprinkles will include filters and emojis related to the day of the week or the time of day that will surface on their own each time the user opens the app. Sprinkles acts in a similar vein to Apple's recently announced app "Clips," in that it isn't a social network itself, but allows users to create images and videos and share them elsewhere on Facebook, Twitter, text, or email.

Sprinkles is a camera with fun ideas. Snap a pic and automatically get new ideas for witty captions or add your own quip. Captions are unique to what's in the picture, so try different things such as coffee, food, pets, and selfies! Have fun with face-detecting Smart Stickers that fit your face perfectly. Choose from hundreds of Emojis and stickers and find even more with a quick web search. New captions and Smart Stickers are added frequently, because fresh fun is the best fun.

Microsoft is known to create apps specifically tailored for iOS devices, last year having launched "Microsoft Pix" on the App Store as a way for users to automatically adjust their photos using smart AI. In November, the company even debuted its classic Solitaire game for PCs as a standalone iOS and Android app that included Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and Tripeaks.

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Boatboy24 Avatar
85 months ago
Anxiously awaiting the day that the world tires of nonsense like this.

Signed,

Grumpy Old Man
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MrGimper Avatar
85 months ago
Anxiously awaiting the day that the world tires of nonsense like this.

Signed,

Grumpy Old Man
I find your lack of Emoji disturbing.....
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MrGimper Avatar
85 months ago
Sprinkles, Bixby, Oath…

Apple might be really inconsistent with their naming, but at least the names aren't stupid. iPad is probably the worst, but there weren't a lot of words that worked well with the "i" naming scheme that conveyed what it was. For me the most annoying names are the "Magic" products.
For me, the most annoying are the "Pro" products, that aren't really Pro at all.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jotwee Avatar
85 months ago
Anxiously awaiting the day that the world tires of nonsense like this.

Signed,

Grumpy Old Man
You will die first *smiley*
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lunarworks Avatar
85 months ago
Anxiously awaiting the day that the world tires of nonsense like this.

Signed,

Grumpy Old Man
Don't worry, the youth will move onto something different that irritates you in an entirely new way.
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