What Are Google Goggles??

It’s a sophisticated image recognition program (not a facial recognition program). Google Goggles is an app used on smart phones that lets the user take a picture and send it to an information database. Google will then do a search and return any relevant details about the object.

Some things that can be snapped and inquired about include text, landmarks, books, art, wine, company logos, foreign words and more expanding rapidly. If a person was tasting a particular brand of wine that caught their fancy, they could snap a picture of the logo and be inundated with information about the company, where it was produced, ingredients, nutritional information and more. Likewise taking pictures of different landmarks returns all the pertinent information about the structure. The future of Google Goggles is virtually unlimited. Hikers and nature enthusiasts could someday have the capability of taking a picture of plants and leaves and scanning them to return information about the type of species as well as if a certain green is poisonous or not. Some day we might even have the technology to snap an image of a star as we’re hurling through space and have the data uploaded to our brain within seconds. Either way, it’s sure we’ve come a long way since our last greatest technological breakthrough.