An iPhone App I’d Like to See
I came across some iPhone Dev Camp App favorites that were pretty cool. And useful. One app I’d like to see for the iPhone is one that used the built in camera to read bar codes and then pull up information. If that was possible, you could do things like:
- Scan a bar code on a food item and get nutritional information, definitions of what those 26 letter ingredients are, etc.
- Scan a product and get reviews, price comparisons, place to purchase, etc.
Then, if they could get some text recognition you could take a picture of a business card and have the iPhone recognize the text and add the info to your contacts list. Possible? Probably not. Would be super cool though.
Ok… One last thing. Cover flow for contacts.
That’s all.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Use of 1-D and 2-D barcode recognition from mobile is already popular in Japan, and to a lesser extent in Korea and China… examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture#Forefront_of_consumer_technology
jd/adobe
August 9th, 2007 at 5:22 am
It should be possible — similar functionality (barcode reader/text recognition) exists on Sony-Ericsson P990i, and it was released more then a year ago.