This tip is for those of you with Android smart phones or Android tablets with cameras, or for those of you with iPhones.<\/p>\n
Google Goggles is a free android app (you’ll need android operating system on your smartphone or tablet computer with camera – or an Apple iPhone) that lets you search by taking a picture. Google uses image recognition technology to recognize objects, images, paintings, books, DVDs, CDs, famous landmarks, businesses, products and more.<\/p>\n
Currently it has quite a few options. You can take a picture of various things and Google Goggles tries to identify them and then gives you information about them. Take a picture of text, landmarks, books, art, logos, items and more and Google Goggles finds information about it. You can take a picture to translate text to and from different languages. It can recognize text in a document and give you a link to its online version. You can even scan barcodes to get product information.<\/p>\n
Here are some examples I have used:<\/p>\n
1. Landmarks – when visiting a landmark, take a picture with your camera and get all the details about the landmark. While crossing the Mackinac Bridge, I took a picture and Google Goggles recognized it and pulled up a page telling all I ever wanted to know about the bridge, its history and more.<\/p>\n
2. Barcodes when shopping – Gives more information about the product, finds product reviews, brings up comparisons so you can price shop, and more.<\/p>\n
3. Take a picture of a new wine you want to try to learn all about its characteristics, ratings, taste and more.<\/p>\n
4. Take a picture of a book cover and get more information about it.<\/p>\n
It does not do well with animals, furniture, apparel, plants, etc., but they will be continuing to update the capabilities. Imagine how nice it will be to take a picture of a plant or flower and have Google Goggles identify if for you.<\/p>\n
You can get your Google Goggles on at http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/goggles\/#text<\/u><\/b><\/a>. Go googling with your Google Goggles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This tip is for those of you with Android smart phones or Android tablets with cameras, or for those of you with iPhones. Google Goggles is a free android app (you’ll need android operating system on your smartphone or tablet computer with camera – or an Apple iPhone) that lets you search by taking a picture. Google uses\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,10],"tags":[1230,1619,31,827,1229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}