Put on your green-tinted spectacles, it's time for a look at the best (and the rest) of the internet through the eyes of the Cogapp Internal Blog...

Ever seen a lovely colour on a flower or a sweatshirt and wished you could grab it there and then for use in an artistic project? In the near future artists could be using a version of Photoshop's 'colour picker' tool in real life. The Colourpicker pen (still just a concept, sadly) scans colours from any object and mixes RGB inks within the pen itself to create an exact hue for you to draw with. (spotted by Joe)

Gavin draws our attention to an interesting project by product design student Ben Arent. Recognising both the untapped potential of the 'grey pound' and a lack of online social networking for pensioners , he's come up with jive, "a range of devices that you buy your grandparents to let them keep up to date and stay in touch with you".

Of most interest to us is betty, because it's a magnetic tangible interface. That means it reacts to real-life (magnetic) objects which the user places on the screen, therefore providing a physical link to a digital action. Learn how and why on the site.

Next, Alex Bridge noticed the OpenCalais service which is provided by information big guns Thomson Reuters. It's a free-to-everyone service which analyses content you provide (i.e. unstructured text) and returns structured semantic metadata about it (formatted results identifying entities, facts and events within the text).

Some obvious uses for this technology include the automatic tagging of blog articles and the organisation of museum collections - so far, at least one museum has used it for auto-tagging their collection and is positive about the results.

And finally...

Tristan linked to this latest unusual use of Augmented Reality technology - for adding extra sparkle to magic tricks.

Gav shared Google MyWay, so you can all create a great browser solution for the egomaniac in you:

... and some visual fun from Joe:

How not to get seen in everyday situations

and a Creative Review article on Mr Chicken, the man who makes the majority of all the signs for fried chicken outlets across the UK.