THE FUTURE IS AWESOME » apple http://www.thefutureisawesome.com All things future Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Army of Low Paid Workers Help You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need with Amazon iPhone App http://www.thefutureisawesome.com/2008/12/03/army-of-low-paid-workers-help-you-buy-stuff-you-dont-need-with-amazon-iphone-app/ http://www.thefutureisawesome.com/2008/12/03/army-of-low-paid-workers-help-you-buy-stuff-you-dont-need-with-amazon-iphone-app/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:23 +0000 Duncan http://www.thefutureisawesome.com/?p=638 Amazon has a new iPhone app in the wild. It’s interesting because it lets you take a photograph of something and then it tries to find a product on Amazon.com for you to buy. At first I thought it was some incredible algorithmic photo processing awesomeness like SnapTell.

Upon looking into it I discovered it’s just a front end to their Mechanical Turk system. You get results in 5 minutes to 24 hours. Of course this is not even close to fast enough.

It’s a free download in the app store.

[Amazon Mobile iTunes App Store]

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