Gmail Goggles is probably more for fun than a serious stab at a new feature but it’s still one of the most interesting things to come out of Google labs in a while. Goggles is enabled late at night and over the weekend and is intended to prevent you sending that late night plea for your ex to come back or wee hours email to your colleagues telling them exactly where they’re going wrong.

It’s a nice feature, even if it isn’t all that practical. If I’m too drunk to come up with the product of 11 X 2 I’m probably too drunk to type an email (not that that’s stopped me before, mind). When I get too drunk to remember my PC has a calculator program I’m probably so far gone my forlorn plea to lost love or scathing diatribe against company policy probably looks like this though: hdfzpiu;o gw piuggpouisd fuginhatuy betchgb grds nihget.

Still, no less interesting for all of that, and this does have practical applications…I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s heard friends say they wish their mobile had a breathalyser to stop them texting while drunk. Add this feature into Android and Google might find the mobiles flying off the shelves to those whose fingers get a bit too busy after a bevvy at the weekends.