Accenture demos the 'Pocket Supercomputer'

Foodstuffs can be identified by their packets, even if the name of the foodstuff is written in non-Latin characters, such as the Chinese pack of soup seasoning pictured above.

Businesses can use the application for inventory purposes, or to train staff to recognise different electrical components, says Accenture.

A "three-dimensional" image of an object can also be uploaded onto the phone, to look at the virtual object from different angles. The motion-tracking technology Accenture uses for this is a free library of algorithms called Open Computer Vision originally developed by Intel. This could be used to train employees about certain pieces of stock in a warehouse, for example.