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This app created by UNG students could change the way you purchase — and give — products
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The University of North Georgia's Caleb Hearn, right, and Sam Herrera placed in the top-5 of the InVenture competition recently. The two business management majors developed an app for breweries and wineries to display messages by scanning labels. - photo by Scott Rogers
Caleb Hearn was sitting at the table with his father, Mike, who was drinking a glass of 19 Crimes wine, the bottle sitting nearby. The characters depicted on the wine bottle’s label come to life when customers open an app on their phone and point their camera toward it. It was in that moment the life of Hearn’s app, Opus Affinity, began.