Crastinate

It’s great to watch technologies develop from something that is cool but useless into something phenomenal. There are two really cool technologies that keep getting better and better but have yet to be real useful to most people. The first is facial recognition. I’ve been using it in iPhoto and while it’s cool, it’s not extremely helpful in my day-to-day life. Here is how that works:

Then there is the new geo-coding technology that layers metadata on physical objects that can be picked up by phone cameras. This is the latest company that I’ve seen doing something with geo-coding:

See where I’m going with this? We’re probably only a few years away from facial recognition technology being used on every picture on the web. Your camera phone could instantly scan the person in front of you, check the web, and come back with a name instantly. I would find that EXTREMELY helpful. I’m calling it now, folks. Real-time facial recognition is only a couple years away. First company to do it well could make a killing.

Ely Rosenstock