Today , Amazon launched an iPhone appthat’ll exist solely to make purchasing crap easier . Its killer , buy - more - crap feature ? Take a picture of anything , and Amazon’ll germinate you the product pageboy to waste money on it .
So how does this economy - stoking magic app work ? A complex , supremely intelligent algorithm that can analyze pixels and fix just what it is you want to buy ? Gremlins ? Google ? Actually , if you guessed gremlins , you almost on the money .
When you upload a photo , Amazon ’s living , breathingMechanical Turkworkers ( so - named for one of thefirst “ robot ” ) endeavor to match the photo up to Cartesian product for sale on Amazon.com . You ’ll get termination back in 5 minutes to 24 hour . The giant twirl , obviously , is the potential for human mistake — how will they secernate one giant black HDTV from another , for illustration , especially with the iPhone ’s rotten camera ?
Normally , it ’d be the sodding time to plunge this sort of app — the holiday time of year — but with the financiapocalypse , I sorta wonder how many George Bush bobbleheads this thing is gon na sell . [ iTunesviaBits ]
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