I should also note that I'm not doing an OCR based method -- I'm using a "fingerprinting" perceptual hashing method that instead looks at the entire picture of the card (similar to how Google's "Find Similar Images" function works)

Thanks!

Yeah, it could possibly be sped up a bit, but right now I'm doing a linear search for the nearest Hamming distance in a data set of about 25k cards (all of the MtG cards printed) -- if I were to optimize the Hamming search with a tree of sorts (similar to the algorithms used for spell-checker algorithms) I could possibly speed it up, but no need to prematurely optimize things at this point.

Maybe 0.1 seconds, on average? Not quite fast enough for 30 fps, but close enough that the lag isn't really noticeable to the user.

Currently I'm using OpenCV and a lot of glue code to scan real-time video and recognize cards for MtG. The database is easily extendable for Pokemon, Yugioh, L5R, and other card games.

I wrote it in Python on the PC, and recently ported it over to native Android. So far it works really well, and you can see a screenshot of it in action right here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/v44gIbB

Like others, I'm trying to put my kids through college, and am not quite willing to open-source my months of work just yet. However, I'm not looking to scalp anyone, and my rates are very reasonable. Feel free to PM me if you would like me to license this library to you -- it would be a fairly turn-key solution for you.

Clearly they didn't slow the speed of light, but sped up time. The speed of light is a constant, the flow of time is not.

Sounds like you may want a luggable PC rather then a laptop, unless battery operation is mandatory.

Remember the old Apple III computers you had to drop from about three feet to get the chips to reseat? Yea.... this is nothing new.

I dont think telling people you can fix a mac book by baking it will end well. So perhaps a disclaimer saying NOT to do this would be in order?

This would be a good test of the time delta between a country getting internet access and the time when they start to produce internet porn.

This is an overreaction. What we are seeing is a rare opportunity for a politician to accuse Greenpeace of overreach.

The ecological impact is no more significant than were someone to walk through the Nevada Black Sands and disturb wagon wheel tracks from the 1800s. The Hummingbird was not actually touched nor will it be impacted by the group's efforts.

The statements from the government are meant to prevent future uses of the land for political purposes. The statements from Greenpeace are diplomatically what's best, but, in reality, they know all this too.

Only the elite get food, water and power much less internet access.

Just hit my two score birthday, so perhaps its the age talking, but MAN are kids today idiots.

How come when I update my monster.com profile it's not news?

I run virtual machines, large development systems, etc. This likes to have more then 3.5GB of memory to allocate. Thus 64bit.