Amazon Remembers: take photos of real-world items with your iPhone and buy them online
Consider this a lethal combination: Apple and Amazon are teaming up for an “experimental” application, Amazon Remembers. What this does, apart from the usual feature of being able to browse through Amazon via your iPhone, is to let you take a picture of the product you see in the real world and buy them online – be it on a clothes rack in a store or worn by a total stranger.
Consider this a lethal combination: Apple and Amazon are teaming up for an “experimental” application, Amazon Remembers. What this does, apart from the usual feature of being able to browse through Amazon via your iPhone, is to let you take a picture of the product you see in the real world and buy them online.
How does this go exactly? Okay, so you spot a cool pair of boots/sneakers/whathaveyou on a guy/girl across the lot. Instead of walking to the other end just to ask where they got their shoes, you take a picture of it. You then upload the photos to Amazon, which are then pored over by the folks at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Program, who will then try to match your photographed item with those available on their site.
Too easy, huh? You will, however, have to wait for as little as 5 minutes to 24 hours before you can get the results. Then again, it does seem more convenient, right? This experimental shopping option comes in the heels of other projects, such as TextBuyIt, which Amazon launched in April to let shoppers text what they want to buy.
Amazon Remembers is now available for free download over at Apple’s App Store. I suggest you pry your girlfriends away from their iPhones now — and your credit cards.
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