Thinga.me from Microsoft Garage is a new Pinterest competitor

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Published onJuly 6, 2016

published onJuly 6, 2016

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Microsoft Garage, the crazy inventive division of Redmond, is coming out with another curious product, and this time it’s a social media app. MeetThinga.Me, the latest effort from Microsoft to dethrone image sharing service Pinterest, reportsEngadget.

Ok, that’s a bit of hyperbole, since Thinga.Me, being a Garage app, is much more of an experiment than a full-blown social network the scale and popularity of Pinterest (after all, the app is an early release, and only available on iOS on a sign-up basis at the moment.)

Nevertheless, the idea sounds like the dream of collectors of all things physical: take photos of your thing, and the app will cut out the background, leaving only the intended object of worship to be put into galleries, themed to your liking. You can even tweak the look of the cutout a bit for that extra flair, like finding the perfect outline for your collection of football badges.

Overall, Thinga.me looks like a cool app that scratches a special itch for those who wants to digitalize their physical collections. While Microsoft Garage is clearly using it as a way to get user feedback, we hope the idea will get enough traction to get a more full-fledged release on other platforms as well (Microsoft’s own, even.) For now, if you’re a collector and on iOS, go to Thinga.Me’s homepage,sign upto get the app, and start photoshooting.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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