I need your help!

[pocaracas]

Methinks you want something closer to Google goggles...

Yeah... Don't think that'll work so well for me. Don't you need sight for those?

Google goggles is an app for android (I don't know if they made one for the iphone) which can take a picture of anything and search for it online.... yes, most of the results are a bit crappy, but sometimes, it works quite well, like with brands or simple objects.
Real world example: if I take a picture of some painting, it can identify which painting it is... or, if you do like I just did and took a picture of my microsoft mouse, it returned the leaning tower of Pisa, because the mouse mat has that tower in it. I then tried to remove the mat and got nonsensical results for "similar images", spanning from furniture to jewelery, to hats, to balls.
It also does OCR (image to text) quite well , not to mention barcode reading and searching for the item that barcode refers to.
Of course, QR codes are also understood.

Also, I just took a photo of this image:

And it identified it as a reef shark.... which is nice and right on the money!
Although, on my first attempt, I caught some letters on the same frame and it only identified those letters.... I had to aim a bit more carefully to get the correct result.


OK, I admit the technology isn't there yet, but it's a step in the right direction.