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YOU’RE walking down the street looking for somewhere to have dinner. You stop outside a nice-looking restaurant, but there aren’t many people in it. Is that because it’s too early in the evening, or because the food and service are terrible?

If your phone had image-recognition software, you could take a picture of the place and use it to instantly pull up a list of reviews. And you could do the same for monuments and tourist attractions, CDs, logos, billboard advertisements, almost anything you want information on.

Using an image is a convenient way to bring up information, especially as…

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