One more thing to embarrass yourself with while walking alone

Although this somewhat new technology is really cool and interesting, I just don't see the need for it.  Anyway- Yahoo has teamed up with vlingo, a speech recognition technology firm to provide users of Yahoo with the ability to make web searches on their mobile devices without actually doing anything. 

The same technology that is already in cars and on computers can now be used anywhere. This new option is called oneSearch 2.o. Users only simply have to speak the words of what they want to search for...and vola! According to the MediaWeek article, "over time, the product's voice recognition capabilities will adapt to an individual users' voice, said Yahoo executives."

The technology will start out only on BlackBerry devices but will eventually expand to other sources.  In addition, Yahoo will enhance text-based mobile search tools as well. Sometime in the future users will not even have to open a browser to conduct a web search.  That sounds just plan lazy to me! 

Now, I'm usually very busy but I don't have a BlackBerry or other crazy devices.  Even for people who use things like that 24/7 this may seem a little much. On the other hand, this new idea could be everything they ever wanted. I guess we will just have to wait and find out.