Given that more Mac users/fans will be somewhat mislead by Mac Funamizu's name appearing in headlines recently, here's what this non-Mac news is all about. Funamizu has this idea of developing a gadget that incorporates a camera and a scanner. The built-in GPS could use Google Maps "or an improved image search to recognize objects and deliver useful information about them," according Alex Chitu up on Google Operating System.

In fact, this new device could actually make the Cupertino labs just like that. But first, let's see a sample of Mac's thoughts: "You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc. etc. But as a designer myself, I hope it's able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on," he explains.

Now, think about it. Who is bold enough to come up with a dedicated such device? Sure, it'd be easy to implement this with the iPhone, but Apple doesn't want easy. Apple wants to shock the world by coming up with something totally unique. Still, the report doesn't mention the company behind the MacBook Air. Chitu does point out that Google's acquisition of Neven Vision is a step in the Point-and-click search direction.

Mac's idea is very similar to what GeoVector has going on. GeoVector 3D Search also let users scan stuff around and get info on particular objects. GeoVector "currently provides products and services which significantly simplify local searches, allowing users to point their mobile device toward objects of interest to access information about them. Users can point and click with their mobile phone the way a computer user navigates using a mouse," says an official report. The service, however, is limited to local search for now.