{"id":9233,"date":"2019-09-13T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:28:31","slug":"you-can-now-lens-uncle-bens-to-get-personalized-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/13\/you-can-now-lens-uncle-bens-to-get-personalized-info\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now Lens Uncle Ben&#8217;s to get personalized info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/09\/12\/google-lens-now-supplies-recipes-and-nutrition-advice-for-uncle-ben-foods\/\">this<\/a> will seem like small beans\u2014literally\u2014but over time it\u2019ll be a big deal, and not just because it\u2019s an instance of the engine I\u2019m working to enhance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Through Lens, you\u2019ll get meal recommendations based on your tastes, dietary preferences, and allergies, along with a personalized score for products like Uncle Ben\u2019s Ready Rice, Flavored Grains, Flavor Infusions, and beans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VentureBeat goes on to note,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The growing list of things Lens can recognize covers over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/12\/19\/google-lens-now-recognizes-over-1-billion-products\/\">1 billion\u00a0products<\/a>\u2026 The new feature follows a Lens capability that\u00a0highlights top meals at a restaurant\u00a0and a partnership with Wescover that supplies information about art and design installations. Lens also recently gained the ability to split a bill or calculate a tip after a meal; [and] to overlay videos atop real-world publications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the latter, from a couple of months ago. As I say, big things have small beginnings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unlock exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAFinals<\/a> content with Google Lens when you scan the Warriors or Raptors logo! Here&#39;s how: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OOX0ckNy0o\">https:\/\/t.co\/OOX0ckNy0o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fMhkauQcSY\">pic.twitter.com\/fMhkauQcSY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1134565216258146304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this will seem like small beans\u2014literally\u2014but over time it\u2019ll be a big deal, and not just because it\u2019s an instance of the engine I\u2019m working to enhance. Through Lens, you\u2019ll get meal recommendations based on your tastes, dietary preferences, and allergies, along with a personalized score for products like Uncle Ben\u2019s Ready Rice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}