Joe Johaneman
08-24-2010, 06:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20014476-248.html' target='_blank'>http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-2...014476-248.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Good news for iPhone users who had lusted over the Android-only app Goggles from Google. It's set to hit the App Store sometime in the next three months."</em></p><p>This is one of the two things I miss about my Nexus One (the other is speech-to-text everywhere in the OS). Google Goggles is a great app that lets you take pictures of things like book covers, DVDs, logos, etc, and it will do searches based on that picture. You can find things like pricing information, or a cast list for a DVD, or anything else Google has indexed. It also has rudimentary OCR and access to Google Translate, so you can take a picture of a sign in a foreign language, and it'll do its best to give you a translation. The Android version also works with barcodes, and there's no reason to believe the iPhone version won't as well. Google Goggles is rumored to be coming out later this year. </p>