Cognited » recommendations http://www.cognited.com Fuel for the mind, sparked by curiosity. Mon, 24 May 2010 06:23:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Wacky Product Recommendation of the Day http://www.cognited.com/2008/12/04/wacky-product-recommendation-of-the-day/ http://www.cognited.com/2008/12/04/wacky-product-recommendation-of-the-day/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:05:12 +0000 Warren http://www.cognited.com/?p=81 Over at techflash.com, Todd Bishop, co-founder and managing editor, decided to play around with Amazon’s latest iPhone App. You take a photo and submit it to Amazon’s infamous Mechanical Turk, then it spits out a product recommendation based on the pic. Sounds like a recipe for wacky recommendations, but I haven’t played with it yet.

Anyways, it looks like the app got a little confused with Todd’s BBQ and mistook it for an iPod Nano, as you can see below:

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