'Technology' Category
Updated CScout.com Launched
It had been a long time in the coming, but a couple weeks ago we launched the updated version of CScout.com. I’d held off on telling people about it until the bugs had been worked out, and now it’s finally at that point.
Today I made just one more adjustment to the site. The displayed image [...]Augmented (hyper)Reality
via @whoisstan
Pretty ridiculous that he needed instructions on how to brew a cup of tea, but a compelling projection nonetheless.Optimism
“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what [...]
Google Maps Labs – Aerial Imagery
Another addition to Google Maps that I just discovered today is Google Maps Labs. There’s a bunch of stuff I’ll never activate/use, but the Aerial Imagery is pretty cool. There aren’t a ton of sites covered and available for Aerial views, but the Winchester Mystery House that you see above is incorporated.
From the house’s Wikipedia [...]The Distributed Flight Array
A flying platform from ETH Zurich is made up of autonomous wheeled vehicle that lock together to share the task of controlled and autonomous flight.
via Technology ReviewGoogle Maps Street View Image Overlay
Much like the image overlays in Bing Maps that I wrote about a couple months ago, Google Maps now has the ability to position user generated imagery on their Street View interface.
This is just a quick post to get it out there, so when I’ve got a free few minutes I’ll look for other locations [...]Meowmania
http://meowmania.jqln.org/ via @rcittadini
[Update] There’s an iPhone version of Meowmania blithely named “Pussy.”Launch iTunes and download using this link.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
Continuing my space travel thread, here’s a video captured by camera E-8 as the Saturn V rocket left to take the first men to the moon.
The video was amazingly shot at 500 frames per second and its 8+ minutes here translates to about 30 realtime seconds. Love it.
via Zack Lieberman via @shakermaker341Talking Carl Talking to Carl
WordPress RSS Aggregator w/ Yahoo Pipes
I worked yesterday on a new feature we’d like to introduce into CScout’s Mobile Trendpool. Right now we have a couple sections on the site that display a list of headlines relevant to people looking at mobile, but it’s a clunky implementation requiring an editor to manually populate the list.
To circumvent the existing updating process, [...]
