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The UBiqWindow: Google Earth Hologram Device You’ll Want

If you can forgive the crap music, you’ll just love this video of Google Earth mashed up with a hologram machine. This is real, and I want one very, very badly. By combining a 2D mid-air projection system and motion sensors, the device gives you a gesture-based interface for exploring the world. The term “badass”…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 4

GeoEye-1 Commercial Satellite Packs Military Power

Next month, a commercial satellite named the GeoEye-1 will go into the Earth’s orbit. Its highest resolution photos-shots that will spot a 16-inch beachball-will be reserved for military use. However, slightly lower resolution imagery will be made available in the commercial sector, like Google Earth. Military imagery can resolve images as small as .17 square…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 20

Pool Crashing in the UK Becomes Latest Google Earth Prank

The latest craze for teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is “dipping,” or gatecrashing someone else’s swimming pool. According to the Daily Mail (commenter djheath‘s favorite publication, if I recall correctly) putative trespassers select their swimming pool using Google Earth, and then notify their mates using social networking sites. The would-be revellers often…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jun 18

Google Adds Climate-Change-Predicting Layers to Google Earth

Google has teamed up with the British Government to create a couple of really interesting new environmental layers to Google Earth based on climate change estimates for the next century or so. The first layer, produced from the data supplied by the Hadley Centre depicts CO2 concentrations spanning from November 1999 forward to October 2099.…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 22

Google Earth Flying Bicycle Doesn’t Include Basket, E.T.

Elliott-wannabe Mike Kay has wired his mountain bike to Google Earth’s flight simulator mode to travel all around the world while he exercises. He used a Sun Microsystem SunSPOT, a Java-programmable wireless sensor equipped with an accelerometer and a bank of pins to connect it to the other controls. The system is simple, and it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 20

Google Goes Back to 1500, Plans to Map the Oceans

As a natural progression from Google Earth and Google Sky, the Mountain View monolith now plans to create 3D maps of the Earth’s oceans and seas and make it available via Google Ocean. The software will allow users to navigate the aquatic bottom and see the topography that exists down there. Google also plans to…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 30

Where’s Waldo? Available to Play on Google Earth

Fans of Waldo, the geek in the striped beanie and glasses who’d pop up where you least expected, can now hunt him down on Google Earth. Canadian student Melanie Coles has installed a 55-foot painting of Waldo on a Vancouver rooftop, and expects other people to follow suit with their own Waldos. More below the…

Tech News AddyDugdale Apr 11

Satski: First Real Time Interactive GPS Piste Map For Skiers

I’m not a big skier personally —but I can see why the Satski GPS system could easily become a hit amongst true skiing enthusiasts. Using the Satski, you can create an interactive piste map that can be used to guide, track , and record your movements on the slopes. You can even upload your routes…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 24

Sony Developing Gigapixel Satellite Camera, Google Earth to Benefit

Taking pictures from space takes a lot of tech power. Basically, you need to take many, many pictures and then stitch them together to get anything worthwhile, such as the photos taken for Google Earth. In order to battle the issues that come up with this method (vehicles showing up in multiple shots as they…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 28

Google Earth Helps Spot Swastika-Shaped Building

Google Earth is once again changing the world —or, more specifically, they’re changing the way swastika-shaped buildings are built. The Navy is spending upwards of $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks that, when viewed by satellite imaging programs like Windows Live and Google Earth, looks like a giant swastika. It’s nice that the world has…

Tech News Ybaranovsky Sep 27

Google Adds Satellite and 54 New Countries

Google added 54 new countries to Google Maps ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen and has plans to add even more countries in the coming months. Along with the Google Maps addition, DigitalGlobe, provider of Google’s satellite images, is launching a new satellite on Tuesday. For fans of Google Earth, the WorldView-1’s launch will be broadcasted…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Sep 14

U.S. Government Might Want to Censor Google Earth

We’ve already seen some countries get uncomfortable with Google Earth’s satellite images. You know, countries like Pakistan and North Korea. Well, it seems like a government closer to home might want Google to tone it down a bit: the U.S. government. Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, recently stated that the…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 14

Using Google Earth for a Resume Literally Answers the Question, ‘Where Are You From?’

Turkish blogger Ozgur Alaz was looking for an innovative way to cobble together an eye-catching resume, and he certainly found it by using Google Maps Earth. He assigned a color-coded place mark for each area of his experience and then filled each one with relevant information. After exporting those markers into a Google Earth file,…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 6

Google and NASA Join Forces; Nerds Everywhere Flip Out

Google and NASA, sitting in a tree, p-u-t-t-i-n-g… space related data on the internet. Yes, two of the biggest names in geekery have joined forces to give the gift of virtual space exploration to the masses. Control yourselves. Plans include incorporating NASA’s moon and mars data into Google Earth, real-time tracking of the International Space…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Dec 18

GPS Coolness: Downloading Suunto and Garmin Forerunner Data into Google Earth

The exploitation of Google Earth continues, and now Suunto is offering a free application that converts GPS data from its X9i GPS watch into Google Earth files. The downloadable Suunto Track Exporter software lets you place the GPS data you’ve recorded onto a Google Earth map, showing you exactly where you’ve gone. Heck, you can…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 13

Indian Head: Placed There by Aliens?

We weren’t aware that Indians had iPods back in ancient times, but then we weren’t aware that prehistoric Egyptians flew helicopters, either. It’s a constant learning process. But check out this location in Google Maps or enter 50 0’38.20″N 110 6’48.32″W in Google Earth and you’ll see a distinct Indian head, complete with white iPod…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 26

GPS Tracking with Google Earth

Here’s two GPS tracking devices that you probably have absolutely no use for, but are interesting enough to show you anyhow—both allow you to see where they are at all times on Google Earth. Worldtracker SMS will alert you to its whereabouts through—you guessed it—SMS to your cellphone and then lets you watch it live…

Tech News Tgrumet Jan 26

The UBiqWindow: Google Earth Hologram Device You’ll Want

GeoEye-1 Commercial Satellite Packs Military Power

Pool Crashing in the UK Becomes Latest Google Earth Prank

Google Adds Climate-Change-Predicting Layers to Google Earth

Google Earth Flying Bicycle Doesn’t Include Basket, E.T.

Google Goes Back to 1500, Plans to Map the Oceans

Where’s Waldo? Available to Play on Google Earth

Satski: First Real Time Interactive GPS Piste Map For Skiers

Sony Developing Gigapixel Satellite Camera, Google Earth to Benefit

Google Earth Helps Spot Swastika-Shaped Building

Google Adds Satellite and 54 New Countries

U.S. Government Might Want to Censor Google Earth

Using Google Earth for a Resume Literally Answers the Question, ‘Where Are You From?’

Google and NASA Join Forces; Nerds Everywhere Flip Out

GPS Coolness: Downloading Suunto and Garmin Forerunner Data into Google Earth

Indian Head: Placed There by Aliens?

GPS Tracking with Google Earth

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