Google Tinkers with Sudoku
You know the drill. You’re walking home from work, stag, one evening, you, with those lean and shriveled thumbs from work, fiddle with your smartphone or the equivalent, catching up with breaking news from the technology section of the Grit. Then, by a very fortuitous chance, you notice the masthead denotes “Newt Gingrich joins in with Mark Fuhrman at the Algonquin Table, aptly relocated to the Apollo Theater.” You’re on pins and needles, trying to evade those lowlife human stories, but you are actually actuating an image of a moron who would pay for drive-thru burgers with a check. Then you find yourself subliminally rummaging through the web archives with a classic hunt and peck approach, which is endemic to skycaps with no arms. You’re there: “Google unveils a cutting-edge technology that solves any cryptic from the Mouse Trap!”
Google has never lowballed me with underwhelming awe, and its latest implementation that solves Sudoku enclosed me in a cage with Christine O'Donnell trying to dabble me into witchcraft, making my cranial ridge burst. I’m astonished. Sudoku puzzles have never shone the come-hither look straight at my face, but now I am utterly sold. Sudoku beckons. I’ve been a rabid fan of Sudoku since the roll out of that feature on Google Mobile (iPhone), or Goggles, and I am glad to say I’ve never been so excited about new technology since Sinbad.
The new feature is offered gratis, and is available for phones that have Google Goggles, or Google Mobile (iPhone) installed. Preferably, I would not overuse it, for your phone can easily turn into a threadbare liberal perception, or should I say, Casual Determinism, that is predisposed to decline. If you have an iPhone, tap that austerely embroidered camera icon that looks like an iPod Shuffle counterpart, and grab the image of a recognizable image of a Sudoku puzzle. You should careen through the process, unless by a hapless chance, a vagrant drifter walks up to you and shoots you in your head. The app will then analyze the picture, and, voila, the mystery-shrouded puzzle you had been grappling with is settled!
All in all, the app works impeccably, lest the image displays you losing a game of tic-tac-toe with a grub worm or worse. Other than that, the addition of Sudoku-solve imparts of us that we are meandering toward the never-ending vista of technology, that Google has yet to proffer.
Joonsoo Yi
