Google wants to tell you the calories in your food

Google unveiled their latest game-changing plans for technology at a tech conference in Boston this week. The proposed app currently goes by the name, Im2Calories, and uses algorithms to analyse pictures of food posted to Instagram and assess the calorie content of the image. Sounds beyond the realm of possibility even for Google, yet the company have invested $400 million to acquire the company, Deep Mind, that own the technology essential to the program's operations. The Im2Calorie project leader, Kevin Murphy, admitted to Popular Science that the system still has trouble accurately identifying items of food in the picture and given the infinite ways that food can be presented and photographed, creating a program to decode these images seems to be something of a reach. Would you like an app to monitor your foodie posts?