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iCandy: July 2010

IEEE Spectrum's monthly slideshow proves that an image is worth a thousand bytes

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Photo: Patrick Bernard/AFP/Getty Images
Suspicious about the provenance of a bottle of wine being sold by a dealer or restaurant? Snap a picture of the label on any bottle of Bordeaux on your smartphone and an app uses a special code printed on the label to pull up details about where the wine’s bee
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