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[minestrone]

Just tried out snaptell by taking 3 pictures of items in the kitchen. A captain Beefheart album, a Brian Wilson album and a Rick Stein Seafood Book. Got them all in one go, impressive.

Was coming back in the car tonight and was listening to the radio, tried out shazam and it picked up the band and song in 30 seconds. The DJ came on and said "that is a great song by an unsigned band" probably more impressive.

There is no way I want to have a phone that is just a phone anymore.

Technology is truly ******* great when it works like this.

[NickFitz]

Was coming back in the car tonight and was listening to the radio, tried out shazam and it picked up the band and song in 30 seconds. The DJ came on and said "that is a great song by an unsigned band" probably more impressive.

The other week I tried it on my iPhone in a very crowded bar full of people shouting at each other. I was having trouble hearing the bar staff over their infernal chatter. Despite all that background noise, Shazam identified the song that was playing in seconds

There is no way I want to have a phone that is just a phone anymore.

Technology is truly ******* great when it works like this.

I don't regard my iPhone as a phone. It can be used as a phone, but that's peripheral to what it is.

Last night my former-rock-star friend was in the pub and called over to me, wanting to know who played drums in The Casuals, who had a hit in 1968 with Jesamine, written by Marty Wilde. A few seconds later I gave him the answer (Bob O'Brien), then went to a YouTube post (it isn't actually a video, but a lot of old music gets posted with just a picture as the video component) and handed the phone across, where he and the other musicians he was with proceeded to have an animated discussion about the transition into the middle eight, playing it over and over again as they analysed it

Later he said, "If somebody had told you twenty years ago that something like that would be possible when you were just chatting in the pub, you wouldn't have believed them." He's right

My reply to such comments now is, "The future has finally arrived; it's here for you to enjoy (Except the jetpacks.)"