This makes my brain hurt. In a good way. Google Goggles is a new google labs offering for android moble phones. Its a visual search engine. Take a picture of an object, place, storefront, etc and google will use its massive computing grid to return results regarding that object.
Here's the proof direct from Google Google developers.
Can you imagine where this will go? They already do facial recognition ala PicasaWeb Albums. I can imagine an app where you descreetly take video of your day and then at the end of the day, tag all the people you met, or at least get a refferance tag the next time you see them.
"Jane Doe... You saw her last in the mall on November 7th.. You don't know her, but 3 of your friends do."
Or "Bob Wilson... Senior Engineer, ABC Corp. You met him last year at a sales confrence. He likes to drinkYingLing "
The law enforcement applications are endless too.
Every patrol car, ambulance and firetruck could have a camera on it, and stream information back to a central location to quickly track vehicles for amber alerts.
At any rate, even just on the comercial use proposed by google today, its stellar.
I'm torn now about my future iphone purchase...
Way to go Google!
Monday, December 07, 2009
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