Evolution finds a home for recognition technology

Evolution Robotics has finally found a home for its generic product recognition technology. The firm will embed it in camera phones from Japan's Bandai Networks in the spring. The technology is impressive. You take a photograph of an item and send it off to Evolution's servers, which identify it and send back a suitable URL. …

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not an orange...

It's a small off duty czechoslovakian traffic warden.

Or so my phone tells me.

Mine's the one with the deerstalker in the pocket.

[Christoph]

How does it tell the difference

between a can of soup and an Andy Warhol painting of a can of soup?

[breakfast]

No, Dougal...

This cow is *small*, those cows are *far away*.

[Geoff Mackenzie]

@Christoph

Easy: one of them's mass produced crap; the other is ...

Actually I see what you mean.

[michael]

sorry but

that is no moon....

ok ok I am going to need to shove

[XML slave]

Finally, the difference can be told

Clerk - "What is that in his pocket? Is he trying to steal something?"

Lanehawk - "It's not a banana."

I'll need me coat. No heckling needed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Taking Bets.

If there are two sites with info on the item: one, a recognized and authoritative site with accurate and useful information, such as the Tourism Board for that very city, and the other site is a paid cron- er, associate of the service, or maybe Wikipedia, and the person who set the service up was a cron- er, associate of Wikimedia; which site do you think will come up?

It's the plaid oversize with squirt lapel flower.

[Anonymous Coward]

Exciting possibilities

Imagine if coppers had these!

'No, that's a Brasilian electrician.'