Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones with Snap of Camera [w/ video]

Amazing. This would be so useful in the morning - read stuff on your computer, take it on your phone on the bus/subway to continue reading, and then throw it up on your screen at work. They should call it "torch" or something like that - feels like you're passing the olympic flame between devices.

i am too lazy to hold up my phone to monitor several times a day.Hold up, open camera app, take photo, wait for process, get results. IMHO, this is right problem with wrong solution. We need an different interface. May be like the Apple's Airdrop and somekind of easy interface to push data from screen.

Lets not forget the argument that Apple made with not doing touchscreen on laptops and pc's etc.

The method of sending data back to the computer shown in the video is almost more impressive.

I've often found that it's easier to take a photo of event information on a computer screen rather than try to enter the information in my phone some other way--which always struck me as "wrong". The method demonstrated seems like a useful way of extending that action.

Another article on the same work: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/deep-shot-uses-c... (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2665639)

Just a heads-up for folks who can't/don't want to watch a video right now:

This is a link to a blog post with a video in it, not a direct link to a video. (I was mislead by the [video] tag; it's from the original blog post.)

The article seems to imply that you need a desktop app installed to extract fully-qualified URLs from the open application. I wonder why a better alternative wouldn't be to embed an encoded URL as part of the webpage itself, have the phone extract the URL from the image? Essentially a steganography-meets-QR code approach.

That makes my experiments with QR codes look a bit feeble!