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Photosynth is an amazing 3-D image stitching application from Microsoft. In this video Blaise Ageura y Arcas shows off the technology and it could utterly transform images on the net, providing image connection, panning and zooming. In essence it links images by their content, opening a new world of possibilities.
The text service from Knowledge Generation Bureau (KGB) boasts that it will answer any question you text to it (for 50 cents) (This service is also available in the UK) The company routes the questions to thousands of Agents who find the answer and text you back. Read more on time.com.
In these days of credit crunch around the world, here's an article on how much you
are paid on minimum wage, in the USA, the richest country in the world. After paying your minimum rent, you have $18 per day, thats about 14 Euro per day, for everything, food, clothes, light, heat, everything !! and, get this, you even have to pay tax at this level of income. Read more here.
Swiss scientists have developed a robot which sweats in order to test new clothing materials (initially for skiing) which allow the evaporation of sweat.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil and X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis are setting up a new school at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, to allow graduates from different disciplines to work together and learn about key technologies, which will transform businesses and industries in the years ahead. Read more at BusinessWeek.
A recent study of attitudes of potential IVF treatment patients has
shown that there is a distinct preference for embryo screening for
diseases and also for tall, athletic and intelligent characteristics.
Read more on ScienceBlogs.
A new free game created by MTV Networks, gives you the opportunity to land a plane on the Hudson river just like the recent real life incident. If you land it successfully then the passengers come out and cheer, but if you crash it you just hear gurgling sounds, Read more on Reuters. This could spawn a new wave of news related games.
Amateur Video footage from the actual crash: (CC Flickr - Maiabee)
This is a fantastic time lapse video made by Tel Aviv photographer Eyal Landesman, which has had about 1.5 million hits. Its 3 and half minutes well spent.
