Tag: GOOGLEGOGGLES

Google Goggles can do some pretty incredible things, but did you know that it can solve Sudoku puzzles? Seriously! Take a snapshot of an incomplete puzzle, and Goggles will start answering it for you. And, it will do it faster than a Sudoku champion. (Yes, such people exist.) Check out the video after the break. ...

It's early December, the holidays are just around the corner, and you haven't even begun thinking about what gifts you're going to buy for your friends and family. Each day seems to bring a new diamond commercial and another blow-out holiday sale, but, for some reason, you can't muster up the energy to get off your couch and face the gauntlet of yuletide shopping. Before you know it, you're on a ...

Your obedient-child instinct may compel you, upon landing, to call or e-mail your friends and family to let them know you're safe and sound. Problem is, your American phone probably won't work overseas (more on that later this week). So, instead of allowing your mother to stay up all night in a worrisome sweat (Oh Mom, we're fine!), take some time to teach her how to follow your flight online. ...

The visual search tool Google Goggles is finally making the leap from Android to the iPhone in the latest update of the company's search app. Just like Android, you snap photos of books, art or landmarks, and Google Goggles scours the Web for relevant data. Only the auto-focusing camera of the 3GS and iPhone 4 (and the iOS 4 software) are capable of unlocking the feature. Get the updated ...

In February, Google teased us with an updated version of Google Goggles that could translate words appearing in photographs, but, sadly, that version was limited to German-to-English translations. Still, we were promised that an update would bring other languages, and that day is finally here. Now, Goggles can read images featuring English, French, Italian, German and Spanish words, and translate ...

Android owners have been enjoying the perks of the Google' Goggles application for a few months now, leaving us iPhone users jealous. After reading Google's latest announcement, we're now even more jealous of our Android brethren. According to the Google Translate Blog, the company introduced a Google Goggles prototype at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that instantly translates text ...

Android owners just got another killer app -- Google Goggles. Goggles is a visual search app that lets you snap pictures of things like books, paintings, or landmarks, and get back Google search results. You can even snap photos of business cards -- Goggles will recognize the text as contact information and allow you to add it to your address book. Slightly more interesting, Goggles has some ...