Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to cover a really cool android application from google called goggles we've been working on this for a very long time and it's not perfect but it works quite well what it allows you to do is take a picture of a cover of a book or a barcode or an electronic device or a landmark it will use image recognition to try to figure out what you've just taken a picture of then it will do a google search for that item so let's do it with a let's test it out with a few different scenarios let's start off with a barcode I've got a bottle of windex over here that has a nice big bar code in the back I'm just going to kind of position the camera in front of it make everything steady and take the picture of the barcode all right there's the picture and it will analyze and there we go the first result is correct multi-surface windex with vinegar 26 ounces is the 26 ounce yes it is very nice so it does very very well with barcodes let's test it with a book cover so we've got a book here I'm going to put it sort of up here a little bit and try to focus the camera just right let me get it into a portrait there we go alright so that was a good picture it should get it there is one up on Wall Street on amazon.com so you could go right to that site and buy the book if you wanted to let's try it with something else let's make it a little bit more tricky will try with an HTC snap so let me try to get this position properly alright and let's see if it gets this right it often has a hard time with devices like this but look it got it HTC snap links right to the HTC website so you can get more information about the snap if you wanted to all right let's try something else here's a sony cybershot camera let's see if it can figure out what this is so we're going to take a picture hopefully not get a shadow in there the flash oftentimes causes a reflection makes it a little more difficult so I'm assuming this won't get right and it didn't it got it totally wrong let's try something else will take the HTC hd2 take a picture of that do it in portrait try to get that get out of the way so there's no reflection and one two three okay so a reasonably good picture of the hd2 let's see if it can recognize that no no results found with the hd2 so again googoo babbles works quite well in a lot of situations I've taken pictures of like a touch pro 2 and a touch pro and it has worked you just have to have the background right and the the object perfectly in focus in order it in order for it to work but it does work extremely well on barcodes book covers and on landmarks so really cool application if you android 1.6 or higher definitely check it out it's free right now that's it for now