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Google Goggles Smart Enough to Do Your Sudoku

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

This will save me SO much time!

Google's Goggles software for Android and iPhone are pretty startlingly cool. All one has to do is point the device's camera at something and Google knows how to do a visual search.

This is particularly useful for when you want to learn more about something but you do not know what it's called. Now Goggles has been updated for both iPhone and Android to include new features that make it more than just a visual search tool.

The new Google Goggles can identify magazine print ads from August 2010 onwards. If you see something that you fancy from Bridal or Guns and Ammo, you can whip out your phone to get the search results from the product and brand.

Goggles can now also replace your barcode scanner, as it will recognize traditional barcodes as well as QR codes.

The coolest new feature, which for most people might just be a party trick, is Google Goggles' ability to instantly solve a Sudoku puzzle. All one has to do is take a picture of the Sudoku puzzle and Goggles will automagically fill it in.

Next up has to be solving complex mathematical equations.

Google Goggles Solves Your Sudoku

Read more at the Google blog.

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alexinnes 01/15/2011 2:10 AM
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Wow this is pretty impressive :p

joytech22 01/15/2011 2:13 AM
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didn't work for me, said no search results..

joytech22 01/15/2011 2:14 AM
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Wait a minute, no edit button :<

It actually does work! awesome! ignore my old comment.

Just needed to take a photo of the entire game board.

alexinnes 01/15/2011 2:14 AM
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Aww gutted Joytech22, i am just downloading it now, need to find me a sudoku puzzle now

bob_white 01/15/2011 2:50 AM
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I agree with spammer gfjghkjhg, "very good web, i very like."
I should buy that boot he's selling for $50...

djtronika 01/15/2011 3:02 AM
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going to go read some anandtech instead...

FloKid 01/15/2011 4:58 AM
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pretty soon people will need phones to remind them how to use phones...

agnickolov 01/15/2011 7:37 AM
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Am I the first to note the Big Bang Theory reference :)

sparky2010 01/15/2011 7:54 AM
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Ok Tom's really need to filter out their user list or something, cause this spam crap is getting really annoying.. was funny at first reading the engrish, but now it's just.....

nebun 01/15/2011 8:13 AM
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joytech22 :
Wait a minute, no edit button :<It actually does work! awesome! ignore my old comment.Just needed to take a photo of the entire game board.


dummy, lol

joytech22 01/15/2011 10:51 AM
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nebun :
dummy, lol



Lol :D

micr0be 01/15/2011 2:26 PM
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what the hell toms !! SPAM OVERLOAD!!!

belardo 01/15/2011 10:27 PM
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Isn't the point of Sudoku is to use your brain?

warmon6 01/17/2011 12:37 PM
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Belardo :
Isn't the point of Sudoku is to use your brain?



Well, it is :P

Cant pick up a phone with out thinking. :lol:

JK

maestintaolius 01/17/2011 8:22 PM
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I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords and remind them that they need people like myself to aid and organize their herding the rest of the human chattel to labor in their rare earth mines.

masterasia 01/17/2011 11:42 PM
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That kid looks like he's only 21.
I wish I was talented enough to work for Google.
What does one's resume have to look like to work for Google?

jprahman 01/18/2011 12:42 PM
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masterasia :
What does one's resume have to look like to work for Google?



A genius IQ. They literally administer an IQ like test to all google applicants.