Search by Tapping Technology from Amazon Released
September 19, 2012
A fascinating and strange innovation has been introduced from Amazon early this month. The company has introduced a new spin on search, which offers instant information to users about the media they are working with. According to “Amazon Introduced X-Ray Technology for Kindle Lineup” on SlashGear, the X-Ray technology allows users to simply tap on the media they are interacting with and get information about that media. For example, a user watching a movie from Amazon can tap the film and get data instantly from IMDB.
The article tells us more:
“The same brand technology appears in X-Ray for Textbooks, with your ability to tap anywhere – or in a whole lot of places, at least, for more information at your whim. When you’re tapping a video, you get information not just about the video, but about everyone in the scene that’s identifiable. In a textbook, more educational information appears. This X-Ray technology is set to be shown on the Amazon Kindle Fire HD lineup first, and will certainly be expanded in the future.”
The technology also already exists on the Kindle Paperwhite ereader and enables users to tap anywhere on a page to get information about characters and other story details. We are impressed with this seemingly magical search without search feature and are curious to see more action from this tappable technology.
Andrea Hayden, September 19, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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