Google Goggles has just been released for iPhone, as part of an update to the official Google Mobile App. The app allows you to point your phone at an object such as a building, a book or a piece of art, and instantly get information about it from Google. Check out what it can do in this quirky promotional video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezc108DTaug[/youtube]
Although it doesn’t yet work with faces, Goggles is still a very cool piece of technology, and you feel a bit like you’re looking through Robocop’s visor when you’re using it. Now I think about it, many of the tools in the Google Mobile App replicate the functionality of futuristic cyborgs of the 90s. There’s the ubiquitous homing device (Google Earth), speak-to-search (Google Voice), instant remote communication (Gmail and Buzz), and a powerful interpreter (Google Translate) that would put C3PO to shame.
Oh, and you should bear in mind that Google Goggles functionality only works on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 devices.
