The awards are a great opportunity for young companies to get their products out there and get their names knows; for more established companies it’s a chance to prove their worth and defend their position at the top.

The MEGAs are a real gem of an award (not just because Ideonic won one) but because they focus on innovation, they focus on picking out the products, campaigns or individuals who are really pushing new boundaries. As well as MirrorMe for best application or gadget, last year’s winners also included: ScrapperWiki for technology – a data store which allows developers to scrape, store, aggregate, and distribute unstructured public data in more useful, structured formats; onedotzero_adventures for creative – an interactive design piece at the BFI; and a number of other great projects across 11 categories.

So if you’re doing great work hurry up and get it submitted so we can see it and shout about it!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/megas

We’re pleased to announce that our multi award winning application makes it debut on the iPhone, and it’s even better. We have learnt a lot from the Facebook version of the application, and we wanted to bring new features to the iPhone version.

The app brings several new features to MirrorMe, including the ability to work in offline mode and manually detect your face and apply filters, choose how far in to the future you want to age, and extended sharing options. We’ve also optimised our server so online processes should be even faster.

We spent weeks optimising the application and interface to suit the iPhone, and implemented changes such as the offline mode to ensure everyone can enjoy the results of MirorMe, even without a connection.

Available on the App Store priced at £1.19, download it today and let us know what you think.

Jeremiah Alexander and Adam Gatenby of Ideonic receiving their Megas award from Aleks Krotoski Academic, tech journalist on The Guardian, presenter of BBC2's Virtual Revolution at Paramount, Centre Point, London. (Photo: Frantzesco Kangaris)

We’re proud to announce that MirrorMe has won a highly prestigious 2010 MediaGuardian Innovation Award (Mega) in the Applications and Gadgets category for its Facebook application, MirrorMe.

Judges praised MirrorMe by declaring: “It’s new, usable, popular and therefore has social value and empowers kids on making decisions about their future.”

The application beat off very stiff competition including from Nike Football Master Control to win this highly prized award.

Receiving the award at an awards ceremony at Paramount, Centre Point, London on Thursday 25 March 2010, Jeremiah Alexander, Ideas Architect, Ideonic says:

“It was mega to win a Mega. Sorry! Couldn’t resist that one! The MediaGuardian Innovation Awards (Megas) are the pinnacle of media award world.  They are the Oscars for our industry. To beat off competition from the likes of Nike to win a 2010 Mega is amazing.

All the team worked really hard developing the MirrorMe application and took risks to push both the technical and creative boundaries. It is humbling to receive recognition from the key movers and shakers in the digital community for this project.”

See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/megas/winner-2010-applications-gadget-mirrorme

The Mega awards are run by the MediaGuardian – a section of the national broadsheet newspaper, The Guardian.

This is MirrorMe’s second award this year.  MirrorMe won the Interactive Media Awards (IMA) Outstanding Achievement Award in January 2010.

We increased both our technical and creative boundaries during developing MirrorMe, and with an iPhone version of MirrorMe in development, we continue to do so.

MirrorMe features in the ‘Application and Gadgets’ category along side iPhone apps Bunny Munro by Enhanced Editions,  and the Nike Football Control application. It’s a great honour to be up against such great applications, and shows what great work we’re doing at Ideonic.

The winners will be announced at the awards night in late March. For more information about the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/megas.

We worked really hard developing the MirrorMe application and took risks to push both technical and creative boundaries. This makes it even more rewarding we receive recognition from the digital community.

We launched in Q4 2009 and are excited to announce that MirrorMe has already won its first award! MirrorMe beat competition from across the World to win an outstanding achievement award in the lifestyle category of the 2009 Interactive Media Awards. It’s a great honour to get this award and hopefully the first of many!

http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/certificate.asp?param=70503&cat=1

Although primarily designed to be simple and fun, MirrorMe has some clever technology behind it. It uses advanced Facial Recognition technology to detect over 86 unique points on the human face and uses this information to create an individualised and scarily accurate facial distortion. It also incorporates medical research to create changes specific to the individual user’s sex, age, location, ethnic origin and bad habits.

MirrorMe will be coming to other social networks in the New Year, and an iPhone version is also planned. Try it for yourself.

MirrorMe is a Facebook application that allows you to take any photo of yourself and after entering an overview of your bad habits, morph your face into its degenerated future form. You can then share and compare images with your friends and experiment with the effects of different lifestyle choices.

Although primarily designed to be simple and fun, MirrorMe has some clever technology behind it. It uses advanced Facial Recognition technology to detect over 86 unique points on the human face and uses this information to create an individualised and scarily accurate facial distortion. It also incorporates medical research to create changes specific to the individual user’s sex, age, location, ethnic origin and bad habits.

Have a go yourself, and see what you will look like when your old! http://apps.facebook.com/mirrorme