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Fashion retailers eye up image-recognition apps for smartphones

Software from firms such as Snap Fashion and Style-Eyes lets shoppers upload photos of clothing and link to relevant stores. When Cara Delevingne told Vogue that one of her favourite apps was the newly released Asap54 which uses visual-recognition technology to identify clothes it was a PR shot in the arm for the new player in an area where competition to become the definitive technology is rife. 

(Source: The Guardian)