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youtube.com - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- MCA2142, on 04/15/2009, -1/+44Hopefully soon with better technology.
"You've had 9 beers. She's a 4 out of 10." - levitron, on 04/15/2009, -0/+38Yeah, but can it recognize $20 bills?
- ryan83189, on 04/15/2009, -0/+37Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars. - jacobo, on 04/15/2009, -1/+34How about showing it a mirror?
this is a mirror
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this is a phone? - 818digg, on 04/15/2009, -1/+29Guys, this is for blind users. It's not to help sighted users recognize a 20 dollar bill.
What this can evolve into would be interesting for sighted users. - acnownzu02, on 04/15/2009, -0/+22Accidentally submitted this as a news article rather than a video, but it's definitely worth checking out.
- Mengs, on 04/15/2009, -1/+22We got it! you got twenty dollars!
- cam0man, on 04/15/2009, -1/+19JUMBO LENGTH FIRE HOSE
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TWENTY DOLLARS - chantardness, on 04/15/2009, -0/+16Awesome! But can it correctly recognize '6' written upside down?
- shutaro, on 04/15/2009, -4/+20Yo dawg, I heard you like objects.
- Dpack1, on 04/15/2009, -0/+15Wooosh!
The idea is that the device reminds you that she's still a 4 and not the 5 or 6 that your beer goggles see. - quidpro, on 04/15/2009, -0/+14Damn! I sure would love to see it try THAT!
- Richman777, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13Man I'm dumb...
- PsychoPNut, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13if i show it my... oh never mind
- Hetman, on 04/15/2009, -0/+12It is not useless at all. One of them main problem blind people have is recognizing currencies. This would help them tremendously. Depending on how well it worked, it would also help blind people distinguish between different boxed food items. This has many practical usses.
- dstrizzle69, on 04/15/2009, -0/+12It will say "Baby Penis"
- Memnochxx, on 04/15/2009, -1/+11It's still a twenty dollar bill, folding it up doesn't change it into a person.
- AndrewDB, on 04/15/2009, -0/+9It won't find anything.
- cam0man, on 04/15/2009, -0/+9imagine if you were blind.....
- manergy, on 04/15/2009, -1/+10How many dollars?
- Lingur, on 04/15/2009, -0/+8One word: Robots.
"Hey iRobot, get me a granola bar!" - Hardataq, on 04/15/2009, -2/+10Twenty dollars.
- larryyhi, on 04/15/2009, -2/+9Shouldn't it say "President Jackson" when presented with the picture of him on the twenty dollar bill?
- Richman777, on 04/15/2009, -0/+7Object recognition doesn't have to be just for people. If you feed it to some kind of AI it could synthesize what's going on around it and come up with decisions on what to do and/or what's going on around it. It's just another sensor.
- dafragsta, on 04/15/2009, -0/+7it is in no way useless. In addition to helping the blind, as some have already pointed out, it is pivotal for future AI that software be able to recognize everyday objects. The quicker, the better, because it's probably one of the single biggest roadblocks on the way to strong AI.
- dafragsta, on 04/15/2009, -0/+7To all the morons who are saying this is useless, I'm glad you aren't developing software, robotics, or pretty much anything else that requires an imagination.
- Dpack1, on 04/15/2009, -0/+6I never understood why American currency was all one size. Here in the UK each note is a different size for this very reason.
Also stops people rolling a bunch of 1's and wrapping them in a 20 or something. - christoast, on 04/15/2009, -0/+6so i put an object in your object, now you can look at objects while you look at objects
- canthraxp, on 04/15/2009, -1/+7What if they recorded the voices on the phone, then played as it showed objects on the screen?
I don't like sounding skeptical, but a viral video could be easily made with a cellphone and pre-recorded voices, any links to the actual project? Website? Company? - jawni, on 04/15/2009, -0/+5I wonder if it could recognize a 20 dollar bill if it were folded in half
- fallout49, on 04/15/2009, -1/+6Can you imagine the possibilities? This tool is great for visually-impaired, but you could use it at the grocery store for self-checkout without scanning everything. Or comparing prices on different products, similar to SnapTell.
- bluehouse, on 04/15/2009, -1/+6<Holds up camera to lady at the bar>
"Broke ass bitch. Go home and jerk off" - pensivewombat, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4Nineteen dollars...*****!
- matt.rubin, on 04/15/2009, -0/+4I hime to put the 20,5,1, in the frame and have it say 26 dollars. That would be cool. Layout a bunch of 1s see how much it is....
- Hetman, on 04/15/2009, -0/+4My sister is blind, and that was the first thing I thought off. If it just worked for currency it would be great.
- acnownzu02, on 04/15/2009, -1/+5iVisit was a 1st place winner at the 2009 CTIA E-Tech Awards: http://www.ctiawireless.com/media/news_details.cfm ... in the Healthcare category.
- nanexo, on 04/15/2009, -2/+6this is so coool !!
- Hetman, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3It is usefull enough for blind people. I would like to try to make it more into something they could wear as glasses. So then they could just lift currency and items up to it and it would relate the information through some type of headphones.
- IntangibleGrasp, on 04/15/2009, -1/+4These are all very easy objects to recognize, with very distinct intraclass invariant textures on each (eg all granola bar packages have the same design (at least for a specific flavor)). It's still cool that this can run on a mobile device, and that it seems to well with partial matching, but this thing wouldn't be able to recognize, say, a shoe, or a chair, or a pen/pencil, because these objects don't have one specific texture and shape, but a very wide range of them. That type of object recognition is still an open research area.
- diablo75, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3I know a lot of visually impaired people who would love this feature on their cell phone.
- cl2yp71c, on 04/15/2009, -1/+4Such technology should be implemented in visual aid for blind folks.
- ptoomey, on 04/15/2009, -1/+4Useless if you can see, but what if you're blind? Looks like a great tool in that case, especially for things that can't be differentiated by touch alone like bill denominations.
- BrianD2, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3This is the internet sir, there are no fake videos on the internet.
- AgentMull, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3Yeah, it probably wouldn't be able to recognize those types of objects, but usually those kinda things are much easier to recognize by touch. Its hard to distinguish flavors and brands of candy and granola bars by touch and without opening them up. Same thing with money and cereal boxes, etc.
- yaosio, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3I post on Digg so I am unable to imagine anything. I'm dumb.
- artificialhero, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3Welcome to the internet. Try not to do that.
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3not as cool as a guy with $20 though
- acnownzu02, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3Maybe because visually impaired users aren't going to carry around a super computer with them on the go.
- the8thbit, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2hang over translator translator: I would like to see him [the person in the demo] place a $20, a $5, and a $1 dollar bill within the frame, and have the device respond back with "26 dollars", the correct dollar amount. That would be cool. The obvious application for a technology which could do this is to place a large number of bills in frame, and have the device quickly decipher the worth of the combined bills.
- the8thbit, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2d-_-b
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