Google goggles

Google unveiled another innovative,revolutionary,superb application called Google goggles .Wear them to see the web thru Google's eyes.Using this application we can take photo  of  any object in this world and get information about it cool na .lets dive in to know more about this story  ."A picture speaks lot more than words" google has made this  real.
Using this cool application you can point ur android based cellphone at your friend ask him to smile
take a photo of him now google returns information about him cool isnt it.You can even take photograph of a unknown location where u r roaming and google inturn returns information about it .see this

Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering for Google, photographs a wine bottle with a mobile phone to demonstrate the speed of the search engine's new features in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.
Google Goggles currently supports photo-based searching for : books, DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info, artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, and plain text.

let us understand how "Google goggles" works: When you capture an image, Google breaks it down into object-based signatures. It then compares those signatures against every item it can find in its image database. Within seconds, it returns the results to you, ordered by rank. Some results are returned before you even take a photo thanks to seamless integration of GPS and compass functionality.For text, Google Goggles uses optical character recognition (OCR) to try and read things like logos and labels to aid the search