This site combines two concepts. The first is helping to correct poorly scanned in books. Machines can’t always correctly scan and convert to text images of text. Humans are much better at it. And identifying humans to stop scripts being used say to create free email accounts is often done by using a captcha. You are shown an image and asked to type in the text or numbers. Captcha is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart .
This site serves captcha images to websites and email anti-spam using text images from badly scanned books. The correct results are then used to update the scanned book image. Quite clever though I do wonder how they know an answer is correct without doing the donkey work in the first place!
Popularity: 12% [?]
Sometimes you come across something so bizarre, you have to think is this for real? Well apparently it is. An email client that that lets you view your email as if its people in a 3d world. Spams are big, slow fat guys. Emails are svelte bikini clad woman rendered in beautiful 3d.
In the creator’s (Robert Savage) words “For movie buffs out there, the entire first level is a near-replica of the opening scene of Goldfinger, the James Bond film. The Bond girls are referenced in a campy way, and Odd Job himself has put on a few pounds since the advent of the Big Mac. It’s the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1964.”
This includes spam filtering and there is a free for life version or a LAX version (emails are Jumbo Jets!) which costs a one off $29.95. Not surprisingly this 3D etc approach has had a lot of people going WTF but it is an innovative and certainly novel email client.
Popularity: 6% [?]