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"  There&amp;#039;s a new app coming that&amp;#039;ll let you take photos of your meal and then it guestimates the contents and also tells you how many calories is in that Double Bacon Double Cheeseburger. Uh, if you really want to know that. Of course, the real question is whether or not it actually works. The app makers have some thoughts on that: [Dror] Oren [executive director at SRI Ventures, the makers of the app] explains that because of hidden fats like oils and butter used in foods, you can&amp;#039;t get a precisely accurate count of the calories in all foods, but he stresses that for many people, getting a range \u2014 between 400 and 600 calories, for instance \u2014 is still helpful. The plan is also to use context clues about where a person is or what they have eaten in the past to figure out a more accurate calorie count. For example, if you&amp;#039;re taking a picture your burrito at Chipotle, Ceres could figure out the right questions to ask to approach a more accurate calorie count. Norman Winarsky, the VP of SRI Ventures, expanded the concept to include heard conversations at the table that could be sent to the cloud and other information, perhaps pulled in from other apps like food logging services. The primary technology, though, is the image recognition. &amp;quot;If a human can recognize the food, so can the app,&amp;quot; said Oren. Jokes on you, app! There are multiple doughnuts under that vegan kale chicken salad up there! GOTCHA! Oh, wait... Follow Laura on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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