Cell phones’ new talent — take a photo, find a Web link

Using a computer mouse to point and click on an Internet link has become a routine way to find information online.

Now get ready to point and click in the real world, using a cell phone camera.

That’s the vision of Evryx Technologies, a Glendale-based company founded by engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. …

Using sophisticated image-recognition software, Evryx has created a system called Snap2Link that lets people connect to Web sites by using cell phones to click on specific 2D images and some 3D objects in the real world.

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Try it out: Take a cell-phone photo of the Mega Millions logo on a lottery ticket and send it to us@snap2link.net. You’ll get a link by return e-mail that will suggest numbers for you to enter on the Mega Millions ticket.

Video: See how it works

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