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Given my history for “new ideas”, I fully expect that this service already exists…but if not I hereby release this idea to the wild so people with more resources can bring it to life. I want is a service where I can:

1. Take a photo of a product’s bar code/UPC using my camera phone (for example, a deodorant stick that’s running low).
2. SMS (or whatever) the photo to a service.
3. The service will identify the product and add it to my list(s).
4. I use another app on my mobile device to view/modify the list of previously sent items.

I would definitely use this to build shopping lists, and I see plenty of room for other features. Please tell me this is available!

Who knows? Maybe this already exists, but any search engine that could provide this would make me (and I am guessing MILLIONS more) very happy.

Basically - instead of searching for text, allow me to CutNPaste an error dialog. This will save me a lot of time from transcribing (common) error messages, and will probably provide more accurate search results. For example, this dialog:

I’m sure many others have seen this exact error dialog, and there are proably 2-3 simple solutions. Google, take me away!