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New Google Trekker Camera: Tracking Maps Off-Road

Friday 07.06.2012 , Posted by

Check out Google’s latest gadget: the Street View Trekker! It’s a backpack-mounted, panorama grabbing camera that will be used to map off-road trails. The device runs on two lithium batteries for an entire day and weighs under 40 pounds. Luc Vincent, the Engineering director, has already taken it skiing and has hopes of taking it to the Grand Canyon, Venice, and numerous other places in the future. With Google Earth, it will allow people to take virtual of tours of places they may never have the endurance, ability, or time to see. Google is also working towards having all of their maps offline, so they can be accessed even when a device is out of range for 3g or Wifi service. [Read more...]

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Game Changer: Camera Creates 3D Rooms in Minutes

Wednesday 04.11.2012 , Posted by

When it comes to the task of creating 3D images of interiors, complete with furniture and a myriad of colors and textures, the job until now has been highly labor intensive. Now, a new system called Matterport is doing that same job in only a matter of minutes, and making it almost as easy as using a point and shoot camera. The devise, based closely on the Xbox Kinect (in fact the prototype was literally this), uses twin lenses on a hand held unit which connects to a laptop. By simply walking around the room and “painting it,” a mass of depth and color information is collected and interpreted into a 3D environment. [Read more...]

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A User-Generated Collection of Google Earth Imagery

Monday 03.26.2012 , Posted by

There are many beautiful places in the world, but we often miss a lot of that beauty until we look at it from “up above.” Stratocam, a program developed by former Google and Dreamworks employee Paul Rademacher, allows visitors to take their own aerial snaps with the help of Google Earth and later vote for their favorite photographs from the community of images. [Read more...]

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The Top 25 Most Extraordinary Google Streetviews

Thursday 03.08.2012 , Posted by

Ever since Google came out with its street view feature the world has become a lot more accessible. With just a few clicks you can find yourself walking down the Rue de Rivoli or exploring the Australian Outback. Every once in a while though, the Google car camera catches something so extraordinary that it makes you stop in your tracks (your clicks?). The 25 images below range from soldiers to polar nights, from Parisian lovers to burning vehicles, all of them a testament both to modern technology and the strange yet interesting world we inhabit. [Read more...]

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Mappable 3D Data Visualizations in Real-Time

Monday 01.23.2012 , Posted by

If you ever get tired of boring, flat charts in a presentation, then you may want to look at them in 3D and 4D.  An new application called DataAppeal could make the lives of researchers, students, developers, governments, and business representatives much easier; and their data much more understandable. DataAppeal is web-based application, based off of GoogleMaps, that allows the user to map and complete geographic analysis using data, and visualize it in 3D and 4D models. It allows people to represent data in a new way that makes it easier to understand and actually see. Nadia Amoroso, one of the creators of the application says “[DataAppeal] allows the transformation and interpretation of information to be intuitive, understandable, straightforward and fun.” Amoroso answered some of my questions below: [Read more...]

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ONLINE SUPERHEROES: BATTLE FOR THE INTERNET

Saturday 12.31.2011 , Posted by

From the creative mind of Caldwell Tanner, illustrator of College Humor, writer of his own captivating and hilarious illustration blog, and graphic artist/comedian extraordinaire, now comes “The Internet League of Justice” illustration series! Imagine if the most popular online websites and social media networks were superheroes! What powers would they have? [Read more...]

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Social Media Addicts Guide To The Social Universe

Thursday 11.10.2011 , Posted by

Everyone does it on some level.  Whether it is someone addicted to text messaging, your parents joining Facebook, or any other number of reasons someone is part of the social network, everyone seems to have their social network vices. Here’s a fun collection of 5 charts, illustrations and infographics for a laugh about the follies and truths of the social mediasphere.  Maybe with a little help from these charts, we’ll post all the right stuff in the right places! [Read more...]

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We Want You! Social Media Propaganda Posters

Wednesday 08.10.2011 , Posted by

The new web is a battlefield and the players are the social media giants; Twitter, Facebook and now Google + duke it out for talkative and loyal followers. These retro designs by Aaron Wood imagine the propaganda posters that would have lined streets had these clashes happened 70 years ago. Thankfully all these fights come down to choice… but if you still want to show support for your favorite social media contender, slap up one of his 11×14″ posters from Etsy.com. [Read more...]

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Google Makes Interactive Music Video for the Web

Thursday 05.12.2011 , Posted by

Chris Milk’s new music video for the song 3 Dreams of Black is a unique and immersive new way to experience our music. Made in collaboration with some folks from Google (its a Chrome Experiments project), the video uses WebGL to render 2D and 3D imagery in your WebGL capable browser… and it even allows you to control elements of the vibrant action.

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Add Local Expertise With Google Map Maker: USA

Friday 04.29.2011 , Posted by

Google Maps has come to be an extraordinary tool for people to use in their search for locations, and as a route planner for traveling by car, public transportation, and on foot. Google Maps uses satellite images to show street level information and terrain but there hasn’t been highly detailed information about the ever changing landscapes of actual neighborhoods… until Google Map Maker. [Read more...]

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