{"id":16757,"date":"2015-08-30T03:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/this-app-can-scan-and-solve-math-equations-instantly"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:44:56","slug":"this-app-can-scan-and-solve-math-equations-instantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/this-app-can-scan-and-solve-math-equations-instantly","title":{"rendered":"This App Can Scan and Solve Math Equations Instantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-app-can-scan-and-solve-math-equations-instantly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A viral video about a new app looks like a dream come true for anyone who struggles with math.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the promo clip, PhotoMath, dubbed a \u201csmart camera calculator,\u201d appears to use smartphone cameras to scan a photo of a math equation in a textbook and display the answer instantly \u2014 similar to apps that scan barcodes and takes users to a link in a web browser. It looks like the app can also show step-by-step instructions for solving the problem.<\/p>\n<p>PhotoMath\u2019s parent company MicroBLINK launched the app this week at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/10\/20\/microblink-launches-photomath-to-solve-math-equations-with-a-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch reports.<\/a> It is available in the App Store on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3531375\/photomath-app-smart-camera-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video about a new app looks like a dream come true for anyone who struggles with math. Based on the promo clip, PhotoMath, dubbed a \u201csmart camera calculator,\u201d appears to use smartphone cameras to scan a photo of a math equation in a textbook and display the answer instantly \u2014 similar to apps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64350,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions\/64350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}