The folks at MicroBLINK just made it a lot easier to cheat on your math homework. All you have to do is point, shoot, and solve for X.
Their creation, PhotoMath, is a ridiculously easy-to-use app built to answer most math questions within seconds. Just use your phone to snap a picture of the problem. The app can't help with handwritten problems, but it can help with square roots, linear equations, and arithmetic. It can even do algebra, so long as the X is italicized.
Depending upon your age, you're probably thinking either I'm so using this on my math homework or Where was this when I was in school? But PhotoMath wasn't made just for quick and easy solutions. The app will also teach people how to do the problem in question, step by step.
More than an educational tool, though, the app is a demonstration of MicroBLINK's text recognition software, CEO Damir Sobol says. To that end, the company has developed point-of-sale software for the European market, barcode scanners and text recognition that can easily scan and store information.
Still, for people trying to learn how to do math right, the app could be a tool for not only finding the answer to an equation but also learning how to get there.
Via Mic.
