After maybe 5 minutes, I got an email in my Inbox:
And when I clicked on the link, it gave me this:
So worked pretty well. Then I tried to have some fun. I was out for dinner with some friends, and tried taking pictures of friends and seeing what would happen.
Picture:
Item:
So it returned a turtleneck. So we decided to give it one more challenge. This is a co-worker who was visiting (it was his idea to do him):
And got:
3 comments:
That is so cool and fun!
How fun! I so need to play with Alvin's iphone more often - I had no idea it could do that, too!
I've seen ads for an ap called, I think, "urbanspoon". I believe it looks at where you are, finds a restaurant, and it's essentially russian roulette (that term has got to be so not PC...) and picks one - the fun part being you're supposed to up and go to it's suggestion. It can be anything -fancy, quick service, ethnic, whatever, but within a close relative distance to your current location. I think it'd be fun to do for the spontaneity of it. And I bet you could chance into some great restaurants that way (and laugh off the not-so-grand ones).
I was initially really astounded, thinking that image recognition technology had made a revolutionary breakthrough. Until I read about it and found out that it uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, which uses human power. Basically, someone gets paid a few cents to search on amazon.com and send you the results. Boo.
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