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Google have launched Google Goggles on an unsuspecting world! Google Goggles is an amazing new Android app that uses visual search to query the giant search engine. You can literally point your Android phone’s camera at any object, and Google Goggles will attempt to recognize it and search Google for related info about it.

Other apps already do this to a degree – ShopSavvy, for example, will let you take a snap of a barcode, and will then fetch related info about the barcode’s product. But Google Goggles goes much, much further.

Not only barcodes – you can snap the books themselves, logos, objects such as buildings, even text, and Google Goggles will fetch information that’s genuinely realted (well, mostly – sometimes it doesn’t work!)

Check out the video after the jump.

In a hugely significant step, Adobe have released a mobile version of Photoshop for the Android platform. Photoshop for Android represents a real vote of confidence in the Android platform, as Adobe is huge and Photoshop is its crown jewels.

You’re probably thinking that it can’t be all of Photoshop squeezed onto an Android phone, though. And yes, you’d be right, but as the video shows, it’s a slick app all the same.

See the video and more details after the jump.