Visual browser lets you search with your phone’s camera
Have you ever been curious about a product you’ve seen on a billboard, but not so curious as to want to actually type the search request into a search engine? Enter the newly-released Thrrum Visual Browser to save the day. Once the software is downloaded onto one of the compatible Sony Ericsson handsets, you only need to take a picture of the text you’d like to search for, and it does the rest. The rest being, presumably to translate your photo of words into actual text for a search engine request. So if you’ve ever wanted to experience the steadfast reliability that is OCR software, and take it with you on your cell phone, this is just the ticket.
[via MobileWhack]
alright-
when this can do what the korean phone can do in macdonalds (order by pointing at menu no rfid required) I am SO buying one it’s not even funny…
maybe we can teach one to look at a (for instance) CHINESE FOOD MENU…order what you want and pay for it with a pre-established line of credit/debit…and tip the freaking driver…
dude…daddy want one…
-db
but I could be getting lazy
This just blows my mind, I can not see this being used this way, it is reading what I can already read, grabbing the text within the picture then searching for that. so in the picture above it would search for ” bal avail ” wow now what do you think thats going to bring up.. WOW genius
If it could translate foreign text into your language then that would be great but thats not what this does.
You know there’s this thing called Q-code that one ups it and has been in Japan for quite a while.
It’s a CueCat on steroids!