Perhaps the Google Goggles are too rose-colored: Google has been criticized before for ignoring the possibility of familial strife.
Other apps, for example Layar and Google Goggles, combine visual images with data gleaned from web browsers and other software.
The current Google Goggles app for Android and iPhone lets you use the camera on your phone to generate search queries.
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But I found this mostly worked with photos of famous places or people Google has collected via its Google Goggles product.
The phone also appears to come loaded up with Google Navigation (a bit of a no-brainer) and the brand-spanking-new Google Goggles.
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In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation.
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Google Chief Eric Schmidt demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that lets users translate written words using a camera phone.
And apps and other tools (such as Google Goggles, which lets consumers use pictures taken with their mobile phones to search the web) help blend online and offline experiences in exciting and dynamic ways.
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If it senses that you've fixed your gaze on a specific location for more than a few seconds, a nose-bridge mounted HD camera will take a 50 x 50 pixel snapshot and compare it to its image database -- much like Google Goggles.
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In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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However, Mountain View's added a new twist when you'd flip up its bezel -- at that point, it's claimed that the watch could channel a plethora of other Google apps, like Gmail, Goggles, and Maps.
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