A partnership between Google and Monopoly will turn the whole globe into an interactive game.
Read more...September 3, 2009
July 21, 2009
Google Earth 5.0 Contains Lunar Atlas
Exactly 40 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, Google Earth launched the 5.0 version of their software containing an interactive 3-D atlas of the Moon.
Read more...April 29, 2009
Pic: Real Life Dead Pixel
A small 82cmx82cm square of dirt has been created to represent a “dead pixel” in Google Earth by artist Helmut Smits. He burned out the square from a patch of grass, which would look like a non-functioning pixel at a vertical distance of 1km.
[via Laughing Squid]
April 22, 2009
Google Maps Typography
Rhett Dashwood spent several months between his commercial design projects scanning Google Maps to try to find land formations or buildings that resembled letter forms. Th image above is just the letters he found within the state of Victoria, Australia.
Rhett Dashwood
[via ComputerLove]
February 18, 2009
Surfing Google Earth On the Wii Fit
Two German artificial intelligence researchers have developed a hack for the Wii Fit that allows them to surf Google Earth terrain. While the Wii Fit has already demonstrated another capability in the internet-assisted health care realm, the hack gives it a fun new use by taking advantage of the boards 4 ‘wobbling’ sensors, converting them into steering and throttle, allowing the user to cruise over the satellite mapped ground like famed Marvel comic hero Silver Surfer.
[via kottke]
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