With Google Lens, your smartphone camera won’t just capture what you see, but it will be able to understand what it is looking at and react accordingly. People will be able to point their phones at foreign signs for quick translation, or focus on a concert marquee to book tickets to an event.

Apps like Instagram and VSCOcam may have people fancying themselves as amateur photographers, but nothing quite compares to the work of a professional. Which is why Snappr – an Australia-born start-up – is offering on-demand pro photography at affordable rates.

Over 27,800 photos are uploaded to Instagram every minute, and 1.8 billion photos are shared via smartphones and tablets daily. Leica is attempting to buck the trend for instant gratification with the launch of the Leica M Edition 60 camera – which doesn’t have an image display.

Whether it’s to savour a memory or gain social cred on Instagram, everyone takes pictures – but what impact does it have on our experiences? Canvas8 spoke to Alixandra Barasch, associate professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, to uncover the science of visual memories.