With technology moving as fast as it is, it’s any wonder we can keep up. Yesterday’s Words with Friends is todays Draw Something and tomorrow we’ll probably be playing a game that’s not even invented yet. Our time is precious, but we use most of the spare minutes we have online, so anything that will make that time more enjoyable is valuable.

Technology moves fast – remember Minority Report in 2002?

Even more prized than enjoyment however, is efficiency. The apps that help us get things done faster are worth their weight in gold and the newest app available on facebook (and coming soon to a computer, iPad or smart phone near you) does just this, bringing the kind of technology we have only dreamt about to the tip of your fingers. Quite literally.

I have over 650 facebook friends. Yep, I know. No, I don’t know all of them personally – some are work contacts, some are friends of friends I’ve met once – but everyone has a purpose for being there. Which makes it all the more difficult when I can’t remember someone’s name, only their face. Or what they were wearing.

Turns out, most of us work on these visual cues, seeing life in images rather than words. Thereitis brings this psychology and cool 3D technology together with Spaces, the most advanced search tool to hit since Minority Report suggested something like it a few years back.

The Thereitis Spaces app displays all your friends in 3D – and you can sort them by gender and relationship status

It’s really quite nifty. My 650 friends profile shots are displayed in 3D, on a rotating axis. I can use my finger (on iPad or smart phone) or computer mouse to spin the images and leverage my already organic ability to detect what it is I am looking for with visual clues. Sort by gender, location or latest profile updates. 

Only remember the first letter of someone’s name? Search using the alphabet. Search by relationship status – handy to see which of your friends are single in one hit (although slightly reminiscent of The Social Network, rather than Minority Report…) or just check out the most recent photo additions in one place.

The guys in the Social Network searched the single ladies at Harvard – the compared them

You can also use the Spaces app to see all the photos you have been tagged in on the one axis, a clever way to show a photo montage of yourself over the years and perfect for 21st birthday parties.

Now, while this app is fun and super handy for those moments when you can’t remember that tall dark stranger you added at the club on Saturday night, it’s the future of this technology that I am more interested in. A quick look at the developers website and I’m shown a mass of shoes floating around an axis.

Sort by colour, price, style while viewing in 3D – online shopping in the future

Imagine the possibilities – online shopping, where you are looking for the perfect pink peeptoe, made easy. No more trawling though online site after online site. Imagine seeing all the pink peeptoes in one, easy to compare, place? Or should I say, space?

I imagine it’s as easy as spotting the one you are after and saying, “There it is!”