Check out this panorama of the inauguration. You can zoom in and out and see incredible detail of what's happening during the speech. The photographer used a fairly inexpensive ($299) gigapan robotic controller that you attach to a tripod and it controls your small digital camera to take hundreds of pictures then use their software to stitch it all together and then post at the gigapan community.…



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This looks like tons of fun. Released at CES 2009 and available at Amazon any day now for only $89.95. Only available for PC's at this time, hopefully a mac version will follow.

I'm trying to find my kid's 3d movie glasses from Shrek 3D and try it out. Here's the press release:

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The Minoru 3D Webcam is a single piece with two cameras spaced

roughly the same distance apart as human eyes, for the… Continue

Today at MacWorld Apple announced major updates to Ilife software suite, a new MacBook Pro 17" with new non-replaceable battery with 60% improvement (an extra 3 hours) between charges, and new pricing for music at the Itunes store. With iTunes Plus, you get high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding. All free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM). So iTunes Plus music will play on iPod, Apple TV, all Mac and Windows computers, and many other digital music players. You can upgrade the… Continue

Both Macworld and CES (Consumer Electronics Show) are this week. I'll post lots of new gadgets here over the next week or so.

John
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Check this out. A cool page with things happening "now". Some web cams, #'s of all sorts of different events (babies being born, money spent, etc). Nifty.
http://now.sprint.com/widget/

John
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