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Perhaps the Coolest, Most Depressing iPhone App Yet

Via Gizmodo, soak in the splendor of Keynesian augmented reality.

Recovery-layar

As of today Android and 3GS users can see recovery.gov contract data on their phones via the Layar augmented reality application. Layar is an application that overlays your view of the real world with waypoints representing your favorite coffee place, the movie theatre you're trying to find, or in this case, where some of that $787 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going.
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There are also a few options to help you filter the results should you be in a contract-heavy area like DC, it is possible to filter by amount or search by name if you're trying to find larger contracts or contracts for a certain nearby recipient.

This data is taken from the recovery.gov Where Is The Money Going? map which provides a KML file containing all recipient reported Contracts. As of October 30th this data will be updated with the final contract, grants, and loans.

Handcrafted by Flip on October 28, 2009 |

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