google goggles
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- digdre
well, fuck me
- R_Kercz0
works great!
- yeah? you used it?baseline_shift
- just tested it on a book i had here, it and gave me accurate results very quicklyR_Kercz
- baseline_shift0
WOW.
- scarabin0
so that's how they're gonna take on iphone; by making new apps android only
- android = linux, right?detritus
- oh, shut my mouth, i'm thinking other new ChromeOS thingie.detritus
- android is linux too actually kindaBIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD
- lvl_130
that looks awesome. and yeah, if google continues to only push apps for it's phone, i could see it competing with the iphone.
- ItTango0
holy shitz... just downloaded it to me droid. very nice.
- Stugoo0
ok someone recommend me a driod phone....
what are the browsers like on those things?
- SlashPeckham0
making computers understand the world.. its the holy f**cking grail!
- I'm not sure I'd use the word 'understand'...seems like 'identify' is more the thing.luckyorphan
- good point - I'll sit back down :)SlashPeckham
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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"Go to Android market from your phone and search for "Google Goggles"."What market? Whats an Android?
- Emersson120
i'm stoked...
- shitehawke0
This will just make the robots more efficient killing machines!
- inhaler970
thats just one step away from taking a portrait of someone and connecting them to Facebook myspace etc.....
Then OUR TRUE IDENTITIES WILL BE KNOWN!!!
RUN AWAAAAAY!
- luckyorphan0
Know less. Think more.
- you should reread those sentences and get back to us.lvl_13
- neverblink0
Isn't tis just a copy of LAYAR? http://layar.com/
- also works on iPhoneneverblink
- I though that was an AR Browser - has layar got goggles?SlashPeckham
- nocomply0
Wow. That idea is totally awesome. I gotta get an android phone.
- scarabin0
the only new feature to this incidentally is the recognising landmarks thing. i had an app a year ago called snaptell that would identify movies, books, posters, etc the same way
- egosmoke0
fantastic!
- TheFatBaron0
And Amazon's iPhone app has something similar, though it's a mechanical turk. Is this Google thingy actually tech based? Or do they just have an army of overseas labor?