Google Street View moves inside art museums around the world to let you experience art in a completely new way with the Google Art Project
The Art Project from Google enables you to explore inside galleries and view the available artwork in high resolution.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThNZH5Q1yY)
The Art Project is available at
http://www.googleartproject.com
Other Links
A behind the scenes look into the making of the Art Project
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYXdEUB0VgQ)
Read an article by the Head of the Google Art project at the Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html
Recently spotted this 3D Scanner application for the iPhone.
Not sure whether there is any practical use but found it fun nonetheless…
More detail at
http://www.trimensional.com/
Body Browser is an application from Google Labs that allows you to interactively explore a 3D model of the human body in a web browser.
Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL.
The tool can be used to identify various parts of the body. You can explore and study bones, tissues and ligaments, along with various organs and muscles and rotate and zoom into the 3D model of the body.
No plugins are required (Flash, Java etc. not required) but you will need a WebGL supported web browser. Browsers which are enabled (or can be enabled) include Mozilla Firefox 4 (Beta) and Goggle Chrome (Canary Build)
The Google Body Browser is available at
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com
Other Links
Mozilla Firefox 4 (Beta)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
Google Chrome (Canary Build)
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs
Cannot see the wood for the trees – well somebody had to say it 
The latest version of Google Earth includes the integrated Street View functionality.
In addition 3D models for dozens of species of trees have been planted in a number of places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-earth-6the-next.html
http://earth.google.com/
Researchers from the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/) have created an application for the Microsoft Surface that can be used by visitors to Cambridge (UK) to plan their trip.
Up to 4 people can use the system at the same time to choose the attractions in the city that they want to explore during their visit before printing out a final itinerary.
Currently available at the Tourist Information Centre in Cambridge (UK) until mid-June, 2010
PhoneGap is an open source development framework for creating mobile applications using HTML and JavaScript.
As simple as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Software development is hard work. Device integration should be simple so you can focus on the application you are building instead of authoring complex compatibility layers. PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices native functionality with open standards.
http://www.phonegap.com/
It enables you to build mobile applications for a number of devices while still taking advantage of the core features available in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.
There is a “Wiki” of information available at:
http://wiki.phonegap.com/
PhoneGap can be downloaded from
http://www.phonegap.com/download
where you can also obtain a device simulator application.
September 24th, 2009
Mick
In the latest version of Picasa, there is a feature that uses face-matching technology to organise your photos according to the people in them.
Picasa 3.5 scans all the photos in your collection, identifies the ones with faces, and groups photos with similar faces together. It’s easy to add name tags to dozens of photos at once by clicking “Add a name” below a photo and typing the person’s name. Once you’ve tagged some pictures, you can make a face collage with one click, easily find all your pictures with the same two people in them, or upload your name tags to Picasa Web
Full details can be found at
http://picasa.google.com/
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