Breathtaking

I have been slightly involved with a project at work with some new technology that stemmed from a collaborative effort among Google, CMU and NASA. Basically, they developed a camera that takes panoramas, which are subsequently posted online, and... I really don't know how to explain this... you can "search" the panorama. You can zoom in and out. Something like Google Earth, only better. WAY better.

So they handed out a bunch of cameras, and we are among those testing it out. The views and the details are really phenomenal, and I can't remember the last time I saw something that excited me as much as this has.



Here is a link to the Pittsburgh stuff that is on there, or you can go to gigapan.org to see a sort of slideshow of examples and see stuff that has been posted from around the world.

It really is amazing, and the applications and potential for this are mind-boggling!