Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who do I look like most of all?

Normally used for security purposes, face and image recognition technologies are making their way into other, more entertaining, fields. One service, kaocheki lets people send a digital photo of themselves via cell phone to find out which celebrity they most resemble. The Japan Times reports.

"Taking full advantage of the high-resolution camera phones that are everywhere in Japan, two-year-old mobile content provider J-Magic Inc. launched the service on a trial basis in late April. By early June, more than 22 million users had tried the service.

"I didn't expect it to become such a big hit," said Takuya Miyata, the 34-year-old founder and chief executive officer of J-Magic. "The popularity has spread through mixi (Japan's top social networking site) and blogs. I didn't do much promotion."

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