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We may not have the physical fight Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk childishly threatened, but the Meta boss has launched a big hit on his Twitter rival with new social media platform Threads. Should you join? We weigh up the good and the bad so far.

After launching in July the first Photobox Instagram Photography competition rapidly went viral. Quickly amassing over 180,000 entries this competition became the world’s largest social media photography competition and, in entirely unsurprising news, a cute picture of a poodle took the top award.

Most Instagram users probably check their feed with a smartphone or similar device. New York-based studio Breakfast, however, has created a machine that displays Instagram images and basic animations using thousands of spools of thread.

In long-awaited news for Instagram devotees, the Polaroid Socialmatic is now available for preorder. The camera has the ability to capture and print photos much like an original Polaroid, but is equipped with Wi-Fi to enable sharing over the internet and social media sites.

Polaroid is aiming to release its Socialmatic camera by the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015. Gizmag stopped by the company's booth at Photokina 2014 for a closer look.

What could possibly go wrong? Adidas is preparing to release a smartphone app that takes your favourite photos and maps them onto a pair of sneakers, which you can then order. The example shoes actually look pretty sweet, but lord knows what Joe Public will want on his kicks.

Instagram raised a stink with its new terms; does its backpedalling solve the problem?

Instacube is an Android-powered digital photo frame to which Instagram users can wirelessly push their photo stream over Wi-Fi.

By adding maps, popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram has received perhaps its most significant release since launch when version 3.0 hit app stores today.

A German designer named Markus Gerke has detailed a product design concept for Instragram-inspired Instaglasses that feature a pinhole camera and a range of different filters.

An Italian design studio has developed a concept for a standalone Instagram camera that mixes Polaroid-like printing with social networking.