Drop the Lonely Planet book and flip on Google Goggles. Have a hard time reading menus and museum descriptions in foreign languages? Problem solved with Goggles – maybe the coolest Android app in the market. Quite simply, take a picture of the Mona Lisa, Big Ben, or Brooklyn Bridge, and Goggles searches the web for any information on that object. If that is not enough, Goggles now translates words written in languages you don’t understand, and the translation appears on your phones display.
The new text recognition app uses optical character recognition to work out what the text says. Currently it reads English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and translates into assorted other languages. Other languages like Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic are also in the works. Other cool features of the app include the ability to add Goggle images in your phone’s photo gallery. To get the latest version of Goggles, download the app from the Android Market.
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