"Dubbed Recognizr, the app essentially works like this: the user points the camera at a person across the room. Face recognition software creates a 3-D model of the person's mug and sends it across a server where it's matched with an identity in the database. A cloud server conducts the facial recognition since and sends back the subject's name as well as links to any social networking sites the person has provided access to." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Does it show a Whuffie score? - Vlado Handziski

i knew this was coming and keep telling people the world is gonna freak out when it happens, but didn't realize it was so soon. can't wait to see the publics reaction when it's main stream. - romerotron

Anybody else thinking about Daniel Suarez's DarkNet idea? - Adewale Oshineye

Random connections live and in real time with perfect strangers with stalker apps to knock out the nutters. Awesome. - Thomas Power

nice work - mehmet t. akalın

I need this to help me remember people's names :) - Mike Cassidy

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This sort of thing is only going to work as an opt-in service, so I don't see any harm. You have to upload photos and profile info and such for it to know you. My only real concern is over false matches. - Otto

Why not just go up to the person and say hi? - Sam Levine

Other people have tagged my name and photo on Facebook, Picasa, etc., so there's plenty of data out there to build a recognizer even if I don't opt-in. - Amit Patel

@Sam : I assume it's for getting links to people whom you've already gone up and said hi to. Or stalking, of course. Either way works. - Otto

@Sam: I think the idea is that you find out details about them, then go up and say, “Hi Sam, remember me? We went to X high school together. Hey, what are you up to? Are you still going out with Y?” as you swipe their wallet. - Amit Patel

I'm uncertain how well this would work if dealing with, say, "the whole world" as your data set. Face recognition apps like Picasa Web or Photo Tagger on Facebook generally only work because the data set they're dealing with is "your friends". It doesn't have to search the entire universe of people to identify them, just the universe of my existing friends list. - Otto

@Nicolas: You just have to find makeup that causes extreme glare to camera CCDs but is invisible to the human eye. I think the people who make radar detectors and license plate obfuscation have some material like this (so that their license plates don't show up on police cameras). - Amit Patel