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Amazon Flow appears on the iPhone
- tzs 15y agoInteresting. It does surprisingly well on some things--just a glance at "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" box identified it. And it does surprisingly bad on some things--a Diet Pepsi from a co-workers desk was identified as a Camo Gladitator II Heavy Duty Belt Clip Carrying Case for various Samsung phones.
- shizcakes 15y agoIt works pretty well! Tried it on some DVDs, they were all recognized.
- lukifer 15y agoThere's a mention of the App Store, but no link. For the lazy: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flow-powered-by-amazon/id474664425?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flow-powered-by-amazon/id4746...
- breck 15y agoWow. 5 for 5 on items in the office (windows office, a dvd, apple keyboard, mouse, and a coffee machine box). It shows the price, the # of stars, and whether Prime is available. Also, the fact that it automatically saves the image is a great touch. You don't have to press a single button. You point it at things and it just works. A thoroughly well executed app in all respects. The team that did this knows what they are doing. I could see using this in my daily life. Very well done.
- rwolf 15y agoIf it links to the Amazon store, does that mean Apple is getting a cut of all sales made through the app?
- famousactress 15y agoSo awesome. I think it's still got a ways to go.. I played with it and it did great on books, not awesome at reading barcodes. I'd love to see it get to the point where I could point it at my coffee cup or trackball. I don't imagine that's all that far off. Really, really cool app. Bummer for the metalab folks that Amazon decided to call it flow though!
- 1010011010 15y agoAmazon Goggles
- wanorris 15y agoCan anyone familiar with both this and Google Goggles comment on whether there's any notable differences, or whether this is indeed pretty much Amazon's version of Google's Goggles or Bing Vision on WinPhone?
- helper 15y agoI did a simple test of Amazon Flow vs Google Goggles. The main difference was that Flow linked to the product page where Goggles gave a link to a picture of the product.
- lukev 15y agoThis works really well. Tried it on a couple dozen books around the house. Pretty much 100% recognition on everything new enough to currently be in print. It failed to recognize a lot of out-of-print stuff, but that's to be expected. It seems to be that if there's a picture of Amazon of the item, it will work.
- WalterBright 15y agoIt doesn't show up in the App store for my ipod.
- WalterBright 15y agoUpdate: it does now.
- juxta 15y agoSurprised there is no android app considering the fire tablet runs on backend android?
- wildwood 15y agoWell, the Fire has no camera, as far as I can tell, which is a requirement for Flow to work.
- adelevie 15y agoIf anyone here would like to implement their own apps that utilize image search, check out http://moodstocks.com http://moodstocks.com. I've been playing around with it, and the results are very accurate.
- robchez 15y agoFYI - Not available in Australian App Store.
- inconditus 15y agoIs there an API for something similar available? It would be pretty cool to not limit this to phones.