Nokia's Point & Find service makes reality better

[bittersweet]

I like this idea, not in Canada yet but really cool:
From Engadget: "Nokia just tip-toed out for a glimpse at innovation with the beta release of its new Point & Find application and service. Simply aim the camera of your Nokia phone at any object in meat-space and the Point & Find application will access relevant data off the Internet. Ok, not any object as the beta only recognizes movie posters at the moment, but that's the long term plan. Point & Find uses real-time image processing to recognize real-world objects in a Nokia database of virtually tagged items using the phone's camera, Internet connection, and GPS data. The software also recognizes bar codes and supports category-specific text-entry search. The beta software is a free download for Nokia owners in the UK and get this, the US too"

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/01/nokias-point-and-find-service-makes-reality-better/


http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/point_find_1_lowres.jpg


http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1302140

[Neon]

Here is a video demo of the point and shoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezct1VoRwUQ

[Hog]

that is actually pretty cool... probably come to Canada in 2015 though

[MobileSyrup]

Here is another video of the Point & Find. Only available in US and UK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1wM6nlcALA

[holiday]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1PAX3SBxVs

Experimental indoor positioning service in Helsinki, Finland - pretty cool idea

[IheartEU]

that is actually pretty cool... probably come to Canada in 2015 though

Comment of the day! Man, that's so true :``(

I really like how companies like Nokia are putting money in stuff like this, and implementing it in all their phones AND it's free while others like Apple feel like they are on top of the world 'cause they added MMS and video captioning to their hottest model...

Go figure lol...