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Google has just announced the release of a new application for mobile Android : Google Goggles .

This is an innovative research in the image:

• You take a picture of an object you want with your Android mobile (eg the Eiffel Tower).
• The photo is sent to Google and analyzed.
• If Google "recognizes" the object, the application sends text information on the photographed object such as name, address, website ...

According 01Net , the service works pretty well so far for "monuments, books and DVDs, logos, business cards, companies, products, bar codes and text. The system is, however, not effective for furniture, animals, or cars. "

Ideos Google Goggles sees as a real tool for daily access. Indeed, imagine a blind person who presents a business card: it gets in real time the text of the card in the phone and can find all information about the caller. Another situation: a blind person can get all information about a subject close to her only by using his mobile phone (for a remote object, it must nonetheless assistance to take the picture).

Google Goggles is stored in the tools for the Accessibility 2.0 as automatic closed captioning YouTube videos from Google .