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Amazon iPhone App Lets You Buy Anything You Take a Picture Of [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... Tomorrow, Amazon's launching an iPhone app that'll exist solely to make buying crap easier. Its killer, buy-more-crap feature? Take a picture of anything, and Amazon'll shoot you the product page to waste money on it. ...
Amazon iPhone App makes blowing your unemployment check easier
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Amazon is releasing an iPhone App today according to the New York Times that will allow, amongst other less revolutionary functions, people to take pictures of something they want and have it come up as a purchase option. Obviously, if this works, it'd be a really interesting feature. ...
Amazon on iPhone: Death by Camera to Brick-and-Mortar Stores
Mashable! —
... The way Amazon Remembers works isn’t quite as cool as you might think though. According to The New York Times, the photos are actually analyzed by freelancers in the Mechanical Turk program. Nonetheless, it should be a pretty cool way to make sure you’re getting the best price, or find other gifts, when out shopping this holiday season. ...
iPhone Roundup: Apps Store's Top Tens, Easy Wi-Fi App, Amazon App
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... that you set up once, and will automatically sign you in each time you go to an AT hotspot. The app is free until Friday. Lastly, Amazon is offering an app called Amazon Remembers to iPhone users. It is pretty basic. Take a picture of something, you know, like that new set of speakers you've been drooling over, and the app will upload the photo to Amazon's servers. The photo is analyzed and matched to an Amazon.com product page. The product's page is then returned to the user. According to Amazon, the process can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours for a result to be ...
Amazon releases Amazon Mobile iPhone application
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Amazon has just released an Amazon store application for the iPhone. (Press release here.) In addition to the ability to search and place orders through Amazon’s secure servers at least as well as one could with the built-in web browser, it also adds a feature called “Amazon Remembers.”
With Amazon Remembers, iPhone users will snap photos of things with their camera (sorry iPod Touch users, you’re out of luck) “to keep track of things in their daily lives”—and then Amazon’s Mechanical Turks will try to find ...
Amazon launches an iPhone app, uh where was this on Black Friday?
VentureBeat —
... For some products, this Mechanical Turk process will apparently take up to 24 hours, according to The New York Times’ Bit blog. But for me this solves two problems. First, remembering things I’m considering buying while at a store but don’t want to buy on the spot. And second, finding a potentially much better price for said product. ...
Welcome to Sunrise Mall — please check your iPhone at the door
GMSV —
IPhone owners who download Amazon’s new contribution to the App Store should expect some surly looks from salesfolk if they try out one experimental function in the aisles of their local brick-and-mortar stores. Aside from providing a tailored interface for mobile browsing of offerings from Amazon and its retail partners, the free app is also serving as a test of a subversive little feature called Amazon Remembers. Using the iPhone’s camera, you can take a picture of most anything, store it to jog your memory later, or, more interestingly, submit it to the flesh-and-blood ...
Amazon.com join Apple App Store with ‘Amazon Remembers’ app for iPhone
D' Technology Weblog —
... users take a photograph of any product they see in the real world. The photos are then uploaded to Amazon and turned over to the far-flung freelance workers in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program, who will try to match them with products for sale on Amazon.com. The results will not be instantaneous (between 5 minutes and 24 hours, the company says), but the idea is to entice consumers to buy products from Amazon instead of its offline rivals.
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