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It looks like things are starting to get serious in Eden of The East, but what really caught my eye in this ep was the phone application that Saki and her friends had made.

So what does it do and why do I think it’s interesting? Well, first off, it takes any digital image and using the internet, it gives you facts about whatever is being viewed. In the screencap above, it’s giving some facts about a bridge.

Below, the application tells you what kind of home theatre equipment Akira has.

It can also give you details about a person based on their clothes and faces:

Something like this could be really helpful for people who are lost, or are just curious about something. It could also potentially cause some big problems. The way I see it, if something like this was ever made, we’d all get flooded with targeted ads in our daily lives, and not to mention invasion of privacy. If technology got to the point where a program could tell what kind of person you are based on your dress and who you are using face recognition, then it’d only be a matter of time before ads on the street switch to display something that it thinks will interest you when you walk by.

Random people on the street would also be able to look up info on you just by pointing their cellphone at you. I guess this could be helpful for someone looking to pick up a date for the night, but I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t want random strangers knowing their name, age, occupation, etc.

Well, hopefully when something like this does come out, the programmers would have enough sense to limit the kind of information it can find. Otherwise, it’s a pretty nifty thing to have.

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