Google just announced a new application for their Android system called Google Goggles that enables you to take a photo of a great number of items and have Google recognize and report back more information about said item. The introduction video does a good job of explaining how it works and I must admit, you can color me impressed on this one. That is some seriously Futuristic Tech. How well does it work? I've no idea. Probably not as well as one would think but the potential to be able to take a photo of a business card and have it be inserted into your Contact List is pretty great. I'm sure this has a long way to go in terms of being super practical in its usage but the concept is solid.

I'm quite curious to see if this makes its way over to an iPhone style app or if Google is going to start launching things that are exclusively available for their Android operating system. Maybe there's already a ton of examples of that happening but it seems like the more people that use your system, the more data you have on how to optimize it...

Long story short, check out Google Goggles.