That's pretty wicked sick object recognition. I suppose your object needs to be in their database, but even then, I'd love to see that algorithm. I did some work with OCR and it's no joke.

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I find it sad that the largest economy in the world can't figure out how to put bill identifiers for blind people on their money. Every other advanced economy in the world (that I'm aware of) manages this.

Actually I think it uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk. That means they pay real people on the other end to identify the photo.

Check it out here https://www.mturk.com/mturk/

The going rate for photo identification is about 2 cents for 5 photos identified. This is paid to the person who takes the contract on Mechanical Turk.

Here is TapTapSee's subscription model.

50 Picture Pack for $4.99 (no time limit)
100 Picture Pack for $7.99 (no time limit)
One Month of Unlimited Pictures for $9.99
Three Months of Unlimited Pictures for $24.99

A.I. that can identify objects using picture is not here yet. At least not like what you would believe watching the above video.

Here is a video about actual A.I. object recognition and what it involves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULY1RYhbNI

If I were a blind guy (no jokes, please), I'd want the voice app that when you used it it said stuff like, "It's a doorknob what, are you BLIND!??"