Google Goggles - a very nice start!

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Comment by Konstantin A Lukin on January 17, 2010 at 5:16am

Ah.. this is interesting.. and the fact that Pravan is planning to open source his invention is also pretty cool :) Sort of like bridging the gap between reality, cognition, and machine power.. and opening the gates to freedom of implementation/application. A natural combination, but are we ready to have this kind of information availability literally at our fingertips?..

Also interesting what Pranav said in part 2 of this video: 'it will actually help us not being machines sitting in front of other machines'.. but could this 'help' us become dependent on machines even more than we ever were before, also in a very personal kind of way?

Well, guessing it could be useful for having those surf reports handy.. :)

Comment by Kimo Watanabe on January 12, 2010 at 7:39am

If you haven't seen Pranav Mistry's 6th Sense technology demo, you've got to check it ot. It's along these lines, but further reaching and very very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXWcKmnKLzs

Comment by Konstantin A Lukin on January 9, 2010 at 11:24am

I really like location based search, which makes city navigation much easier. Text based search is also pretty cool, even though, I do agree, some of the examples in this video could use a bit of improvisation. This technology, in general, looks very promising, and I do look forward to seeing it mature into a useful visual recognition tool.

I also wonder if Google ever releases an API to use with any video data feed. This could allow for very interesting applications, such as a robotic reality recognition.. or something along those lines :)

Comment by Brian Russo on January 9, 2010 at 10:00am

That should have been plant* not paint stupid thing won't let me edit.

Comment by Brian Russo on January 9, 2010 at 9:59am

I think this is cool and definitely some applications.. but a lot of these examples are kinda silly..as they've said.. it only works well on certain things - but they're things that I wouldn't really need to search for anyway. If I have someone's business card why would I search for their phone number? Yeah it's neat but let's face it - it's also stupid. The things I want to search for visually are those that it won't handle well. For example if I'm trying to recognize a certain type of paint.. or a certain pattern of marble tile. Those are the things that we need to visual search for.