I agree. But provided the condition that they make it accesible with screen
readers like talks and mobile speak.
Vetri.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kiran Kaja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Point and find with your cellphone
Actually, this technology can be really useful to blind people. Only thing
we need to do is to find a way to filter the available information. Let's
say you are moving through the shelves in a book store, you would tell the
software to notify you only when it finds titles by a particular author.
There are endless possibilities when pattern recognition/image
recognition,
barcode/RFID and location based services are combined together...
Regards,
Kiran.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Renuka
Warrier
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AI] Point and find with your cellphone
I know, it is nott so useful to the vi persons, but it is posted out of
its
intersting feature.
Renuka
Date:07/12/2008 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/07/stories/2008120755381000.htm
National
Point and find with your cellphone
Anand Parthasarathy
- Photo: Anand Parthasarathy
NO MORE WINDOW SHOPPING!: A Nokia engineer points a mobile at a film
poster
for identification and booking details.
Bangalore: You are strolling through the main shopping area in your town.
As
you pass a clothing store, you notice a dress displayed in the window that
catches your fancy. The shop is crowded with shoppers and you don't care
to
join the rush. So you just point your mobile phone at the display and
click
a special button.
This triggers a software in your handset that "recognises" the item on
display, identifies the shop and within seconds, your phone's screen gives
you the
full details of the dress on show: the material used; the colours
available;
and the sizes in which it comes, with their prices.
If you decide you want to try it on, you can now enter the shop; if you
prefer, you can order it to be delivered at home and pay for it with a few
more
clicks.
This is the stuff of tomorrow - being tested and perfected today in the
development labs of Nokia.
It is called "Point and Find," and at the company's annual developer event
in Barcelona last week, an engineer helped me experience an even more
compelling
demonstration of the technology: I pointed a phone at a cinema poster
advertising the upcoming Hollywood release, The Day the Earth Stood Still,
which
opens worldwide on Friday next. Image recognition software quickly
identified the film as the current, that is, 2008 title (eliminating the
1951 film of
the same name) and brought up on the display, a link to a trailer of the
film, as well as a synopsis and cast list.
The phone had a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) chip, which
worked
out where on earth I was standing, located the nearest multiplex that
would
be screening the film and linked me to the theatre's booking system. I
could
reserve seats if I chose to!
Nokia's Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo offers a new buzzword for
this
sort of service: So-Lo or Social Location. Technologies such as 'Point and
Find'
on our mobile phones, give each of us a new identity, he says. "Phones
will
figure out who we are and where we are - and lead us to the precise
information
we seek."
'Point and find' can be a reality as early as next week, Nokia's
India-based
vice-president Shiv Shivakumar promises.
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