Google Goggles Demo - Too Cool!
 

This is pretty amazing and opens up a world of potential uses...

The Google Goggles service in the video is currently an application for Android

Pretty neat tool

geek glasses :1orglaugh

nice tool anyway

very fucking pimp and nice

At first, I thought it worked with the glasses he was wearing :1orglaugh

I was thinking of this the other day when I was looking at a picture of a bikini model in a bar. Soon they will have facial recognition to find other photos of same person, persons name etc..

[QUOTE=Tube Ace;16624204]At first, I thought it worked with the glasses he was wearing :1orglaugh

Same here !! :1orglaugh

Its cool but google said yesterday they have having a lot of problems with it and many glitches and so its going on the back burner (still with people working on it) and that maybe..just maybe it will see the light of day in the future.

Interesting, I am gonna go research this more

the japanese people have been using tools like this for a few years now..

Thats freaking awesome.

well the light of day is shining here with info on how to get it for your Android phone plus another info video:
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

That is very cool, but I bet it's going to open a can of worms.

I presume they're using streetview images to match up the photo you take of a business, returning its location and other information. This brings about some scary scenarios... what if someone "goggles" the background of a photo of some random hot girl on facebook? Within seconds they have the exact address of the location.

Even if it's designed to exclude residential addresses there are some locations that will undoubtedly slip through the cracks, and limiting to business locations only will still not provide full "location anonimity" - someone could still figure out your town or a common meeting place by finding businesses in the background.

Scary stuff. :helpme

I remember a year or two ago a site which allowed you to tag people's faces, which went into a big pattern matching database. Using their toolbar any content on a site which featured a known face (using facial recognition technology) would superimpose the person's name over the image. Again a cool application, but something that has serious privacy concerns. I don't know if the site ever came out of beta - can't remember hearing anything about it recently...