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Google Maps Driving Simulator Lets You 'Drive' Anywhere

This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth. Geoquake's 2D Flash version may be really simple—you only have a choice of four vehicles and there's no actual collision detection—but it's got the right idea. When someone can take in street data and feed it into a 3D driving engine so we can simulate a trip to the Grand Canyon without leaving our desks, that's when we'll know the future has arrived. [Geoquake]

5:45 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Jason Chen
15,577 views, 30 comments

Latest by Zanderkinn: eh, this was in simcity 4. Except that I got to build my own tracks, and drive some ridiculous vehicles more »

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New Enterprise Hard Drives From Seagate: Encrypted, Faster and Stronger

The Seagate hard drive barrage continues with a triplet of new enterprise hard drives. First up is the Barracuda FDE, a 7200 rpm drive which offers native full hard drive encryption using AES. It'll be available in capacities up to 1TB in 2008. Next up: More »

12:00 PM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,384 views, 3 comments