With everything else becoming smart in the world, we bring you through the steps required to plan a smart wedding.
What is a smart wedding?
The modern age has seen our world become more connected that ever. Often a celebration of tradition, there are several ways you can discreetly usher technology in your smart wedding. To host a smart wedding is not to say there will be drones flying around the first dance or a robot greeting guests. A smart wedding, to us here at Goos3D, is you getting the very most from your big day and making the planning process as simple as possible.
Plan your smart wedding using Wunderlist
Wunderlist is a must have for those seeking to inject a bit of organisation into their lives. Such a craving for organisation normally comes during the planning phase of a wedding. Our in-depth research (a season and a half of “Don’t Tell the Bride“) has shown us that one-half of the wedding party is usually the organised one. Wunderlist is a must have if you are that other half – aka the unorganised one. The app lets you categorise your tasks and set reminders for their due dates. As you complete tasks you mark them completed.
Considering your smart wedding is going to be one of your biggest days, you might even consider investing in Wunderlist Pro. The best feature of Wunderlist Pro is the ability to assign tasks. So if your other half was supposed to confirm the DJ, you can see if that’s been crossed off their Wunderlist or not. Wunderlist feeds even the most control hungry of smart wedding planners out there.
Decide upon your smart wedding hashtag
Yes, you need to have a wedding hashtag. A hashtag has become one of the most interactive and rewarding elements of a smart wedding. By deciding upon a unique hashtag and making it known to your guests, you are growing the number of photographers present exponentially. Your smart wedding hashtag will also act as a unique identifier for IFTTT – which we will discuss later.
Get a shared email address
Naturally, a shared email is only going to be used for wedding-related stuff, but it’s a handy little tip to ensure both parties are up to date on the latest communications. Using an application like IFTTT also has added benefits when you can both access the same Google Drive account, so we recommend you get a Gmail account.
If This Then That
IFTTT is one of our favourite apps and it runs most of our lives in Goos3D Tower. IFTTT also places a huge amount of power into the hands of a smart wedding planner. Now that you have a wedding hashtag for your guests to use, you’ll need to scrape everything from the internet that uses it. To do this, you need IFTTT and some recipes.
Save photos from your wedding hashtag on Twitter
This recipe will automatically save any photos posted to Twitter accompanied with your wedding hashtag. If you play around with IFTTT you also find options such as automatically retweeting anyone using your wedding hashtag amongst other great recipes.
Email your DJ with your latest favourite tracks
This recipe is probably our favourite out of the lot. No smart wedding would be complete without some cracking tunes. Normally, you’ll have briefed your DJ with the music you would like weeks in advance. There is always the chance you’ll hear a new song you love a week before the big day. This recipe emails your DJ with every song title you add to a specific playlist in Spotify. You’ll need to have an agreement with your DJ about doing this of course, but you could recommend they use IFTTT to manage emails from you too.
Keep track of wedding receipts
A side project of IFTTT is the DO series of apps. DO Camera is a useful one for smart wedding planners. In the run up to your big day, you will be racking up the receipts. DO Camera lets you launch a secondary camera app on your phone. Photos taken with DO Camera app are organised into specific Google Drive folders. Now you have a folder filled with images of your receipts. Genius.
Now you have the tools to host a smart wedding. Perhaps you were married recently and found tech that made things easier? Share it with us in the comments below.
It’s perfect timing for Samsung to release their new watch as smart watch sales 
From the teaser images Samsung has released, we expect the watch to have a rounded face. This seems to be the preferable trend from smart watch consumers. They seem to want to keep their watches similar to your standard watch, but with the added perks of it… well… being smart.
A great crowd in attended the launch of Samsung’s latest superphone at Dublin’s 
The Note7 is slightly bigger than the Galaxy S7 Edge. On paper, that equates to a 5.7″ screen versus a 5.5″ screen. Side by side, you would be hard-pressed to tell the two handsets from each other. Holding the handset doesn’t make it any easier to tell the two apart. You wouldn’t notice the bigger Note7’s design as it fits really snugly in your palm. The curved edges of the screen is extremely subtle and the blue model is gorgeous – much nicer that the blue Galaxy S5 that we feared was being resurrected.
Lots of the hardware onboard the Note7 echoes the Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, but two big features stood out on the bottom of the device. Many of those accessories you have will no longer be directly compatible with the Note7 as Samsung finally opt for a USB-C charging port. For the user, this means faster data transfers, faster charging and the knowledge that the local pub is unlikely to be able to give you a charge.
You won’t feel like you’re living in a futuristic world until you unlock your 
Production delays led to delays in the availability of the Gear 360. Such delays should be in the past now, as the latest in image capturing was on show at the Note7 event. Combined with the companion app, users can capture stunning 360 images with no visible stitch line. The Gear 360 is rumoured to be entering the market at £450 so whether or not it will be accessible remains to be seen.
Quite the opposite to the Gear 360 is the Gear VR. Coming in at just €99, the Gear VR is an affordable alternative to high-end virtual reality devices. The latest, black version, of the Gear VR will be much like the model that shipped with the Galaxy S7. Notable differences included an updated touchpad and interchangeable connections for micro-USB and USB-C.
The wearable accessory specialists offer a wide range of bands for various smartwatch users. Some of the pioneers of the market feature including our beloved 
The range of colours available ensures all users will find a band that suits their taste. Better still, the options are not limited to the colour of band, but the combination of band colour with buckle style. You can choose a buck from a nice variety, including brushed steel and rose gold.
And to our favourite feature: the quick release. Obviously, given our desire to find a band that we could quickly pop off and swap out, traditional watch straps simply wouldn’t cut it. The guys over at Clockwork include the quick release functionality seen on the official Huawei Watch bands, making it extremely convenient to change between business and sports.
Tynker is a web based coding application
ScratchJr is an online tool providing written and animated guides for coding. Kids can create their own stories and watch them afterwards. We already imagine the kids loving the look on your face as you watch their creation unfold, making this a great bonding opportunity.
This is 16-year-old Josh Bell. Last year, Josh’s company turned over £250,000. This company, founded in Josh’s bedroom, was a hotel-booking website which over 95,000 hotels signed up to. The idea started after a conversation with a hotel owner and at the age of 15 he owned a company. Josh achieved these amazing feats because of self-taught coding. Imagine the possibilities for a generation immersed in coding. That’s why we believe in coding for kids.
With many ISPs blocking access to the Pirate Bay, the first port of call for users is often using a proxy site. A proxy site is a carbon copy of the original site on a different domain, allowing users to bypass roadblocks. Right now, if you Google search for 
Google regularly displays rich content at the top of searches – Rio 2016 (above) being a great example. A very similar snippet appears for Pirate Bay proxies. Listed for the user are sites broken down by how fast they operate. Such a service, while likely automated, is some sort of showing from Google that file sharing doesn’t really bother them.
However, once you get past the notable performances from Smith, Leto and Robbie, and the impressive soundtrack, the film feels like it’s a gap filler for DC’s Justice League movie. And a rushed one at that. There aren’t too many moments of note for the rest of the Squad. The ridiculously named Captain Boomerang is more concerned with his social life than anything else. El Diablo mopes around like a child and Slipknot is barely in the film for five minutes before he… well, you’ll see for yourself.
Up first is the design of the both the Note 7 and Galaxy S7. You can tell straight away the two are related. The same exquisite aluminium framework and sleek glass bodies compliments the sophisticated styling. All that remains as a discernible difference is the size. The Note 7 comes with a hand shattering 5.7” display in comparison the S7’s 5.1” screen.
The S-pen is the main leader of software changes. With the phones capable of achieving very similar tasks, the S-pen paves the way for numerous innovative ways of interacting with your phone. You can quickly translate things, create GIFs and combine the Always-on-display with the stylus to allow users to always take notes, even with the screen locked. Between the phone and the S-pen, the Note 7 can detect a massive 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity – which we can’t tell exactly why, but is extremely exciting.