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Eyealike: Who would play you in the movie of your life?
Eyealike lets you do one of two things: Find real people or celebrities that look like other celebrities. Or find celebrities that look like you, by uploading an image. Not just any image will do. We uploaded about a dozen cropped headshots before we found one that took, and then Eyealike tol us that James Woods, Cuba Gooding Junior, Fisher Stevens, and Paulie Shore were all matches. So umm, we're not necessarily going to vouch for this site's accuracy just yet.
But as the technology progresses, ActiveSymbols could license its application to sites like Facebook or Flickr to do things like auto-tag all of the people in your photos, or let you find photos similar to the ones you've uploaded. As technical demos go, we're less than impressed with Eyealike. But we give ActiveSymbols credit for thinking big.
[via GigaOm]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
