
ShopSavvy is a shopping assistant developed for Google’s Android mobile phone platform and was T-Mobile’s featured application for their US launch of the G1 in October of 2008. Users can scan the bar code of any product using their phone’s built-in camera.Sounds great doesn't it? Fun at least. So I just scanned this:
ShopSavvy will then search for the best prices online and through the inventories of nearby, local stores using the phone’s built-in GPS. ShopSavvy won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and is available in Google’s Market.


I'm thinking there is great potential for a meme here of other amusing Shopsavvy system failures.
6 comments:
To be fair, Crimpy Critters would probably be less damaging to your health.
Depends what you crimp
It's probably designed to do that if you scan an "unsuitable" product.
Try a bottle of Absinthe next.
Epic Fail? Really? Hundreds of thousands of people use the application to save money everyday. We do have a growing problem caused by UPC spammers - i.e. people who pollute public UPC systems with incorrect UPC and EAN numbers.
For big ticket items like consumer electronics we have a very high (99%) accuracy rate, but with items like water, Coke and cigarettes there is a LOT of UPC Spam. Some of it isn't even spam, today retailers like Amazon sometimes return three different items for the same UPC. We are working on a new SPAM model that will compare UPC/EAN numbers and titles from several retailers and select the most common response.
Try some more items like Books, DVDs and consumer electronics and give us a chance...
Alexander Muse
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Errrr assuming this comment is real can you not see the hilarity that a packet of cigarettes would produce the result of a childrens toy? Chill out.
Maybe that's what they think the inside of a smoker looks like?
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