Want to see what Google Earth looks like on 48 screens? I’ll give you a hint: It looks awesome. Above is a video of Google Earth on 48 screens, which covers 40 square meters and almost 100 million pixels. This display was put together in the Paris Center for Architecture and Urbanism. The installation is powered by Google’s Liquid Galaxy software that is used for Google Earth being displayed on multiple displays. The map can be navigated by using four multi-touch displays that allows visitors to pan and pinch and zoom in or zoom out. [UberGizmo]
Google Earth was launched in 2005. Every year Google updates the images in Google Earth in certain portions of the world. Google updated Google Earth to include what Haiti looked like after the major earthquake. They also updated Google Earth with imagery from Japan to show what happened after the tsunami. However Google Earth never shows you imagery from the country of Israel for legal reasons.
The Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Earth software has helped archaeologists find 1,977 potential digging sites, including 1,082 ancient stone tombs (pendants). University of Western Australia professor David Kennedy scanned about 500 square miles on the Arabian Peninsula using Google Earth.
Google Earth 6 is the latest version of the desktop version of Google Earth. Google Earth lets you navigate around towns, cities, countries, etc. Google has announced that they have Google Street View integration and 3D trees.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a new version of Google Earth that has a weather layer. This way you can track images of rain and snow in real-time. To see the weather layers, enable the clouds layer and zoom in to a specific location. Check out some of the screenshots below:
Google Earth, the globe mapping software created by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has helped scientists find a hominid fossil that is about 2 million years old. This discovery is known to be one of the biggest palaeoanthropological finds. In March 2008 Professor Lee Berger of Witswatersrand University in Johannesburg started to use Google Earth. to map caves and fossil deposits. Below is an excerpt from the Google Earth Blog written by Chief Technology Advocate Michael Jones:
“At the beginning of this project, there were approximately 130 known cave sites in the region and around 20 fossil deposits. With the help of the navigation facility and high-resolution satellite imagery in Google Earth, Professor Berger went on to find almost 500 previously unidentified caves and fossil sites, even though the area is one of the most explored in Africa. One of these fossil sites yielded the remarkable discovery of a new species, Australopithecus sediba. This species was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known species of the genus homo — and its introduction into the fossil record might answer some key questions about our earliest ancestry in Africa.”
Happy Friday everybody. Today is February 5, 2010 and below is the Pulse2 News Roundup. We are going to talk about Facebook, Apple, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sony, Jersey Shore, Google Earth, FriendFinder, TechCrunch, Patrick Stewart, Jon Stewart, and Bill O’Reilly today.
Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan
Facebook is working on overhauling their message system in order to replace it with a web mailing system. The code name for the project is Project Titan [TechCrunch]. Facebook has also turned 6 years old this week and has reached the 400 million user milestone. [Mashable]
Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser
Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location based advertisements for their applications. “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store,” Apple said [MacNN]. You can now browse the App Store on the web [PCWorld].
Snoop Vader
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was caught in the middle of an imperial march walking around SoHo New York. It looks like Snoop has crossed over to the dark side since he is walking right next to Darth Vader. [HuffPo]
Sony Profits
Sony announced yesterday that they have returned to profit during the last three months of 2009. As a result, the company raised their outlook. [New York Times]
Snooki Crasher
A new meme has hit the Internet thanks to Jersey Shore character Nicole “Snooki” Pilozzi. The meme is called Snooki Crasher and it features images of Snooki in places where she doesn’t belong. Below are a couple of examples. [URLesque]
World War II on Google Earth
Images of World War II destruction have been uploaded to Google Earth. The cities where the images were uploaded include Berlin, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden. [Telegraph]
FriendFinder Cancels IPO
The FriendFinder Network filed for an IPO about a month ago. The FriendFinder Network is a brand that oversees porn websites and social networks. The company was supposed to start trading this week, but they have cancelled due to “market conditions.” [AllThingsD]
TC Intern Fired
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington apologized to his readers on behalf of an intern that accepted a MacBook as compensation for writing a blog post. The intern was fired and every blog post he wrote was deleted. “I apologize to each one of you. I promise that we will always maintain complete transparency with you on how we operate, even when it isn’t such an easy thing to do,” stated Arrington in his apology. [TechCrunch]
Patrick Stewart on Twitter
Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard, calls his mobile phone “my beautiful iPhone.” But he doesn’t quite understand Twitter and is has a fear of getting addicted to gaming. “To reduce life to–how many? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.” [HuffPo]. And if you’re a fan of Patrick Stewart, check out a project that my friend Mo Kakwan made at Yahoo! Hack Day a few years ago.
Bill O’Reilly vs. Jon Stewart
Comedy Central news host Jon Stewart was a guest on FOX host Bill O’Reilly’s TV show earlier this week. The debate between Stewart and O’Reilly attracted 4,091,000 viewers. And about 1,041,000 of those viewers were aged between 25 and 54. [BusinessInsider]
The 2011 Audi A8 is one of the most high-tech upcoming vehicles to hit the roads in 2010. The Audi A8 is equipped with a 4.2 liter FSI V8 motor and 372 horsepower. Fuel consumption will be reduced by 15%. And the transmission of the A8 is eight-speed tiptronic transmission with manual mode. The A8 navigation system is very intuitive as well.
The Audi A8 will have a multimedia interface (MMI) combined with the standard navigation system and touchpad. The car will have a traditional hard disk navigation system with integrated GPRS/EDGE modem integrated into the MMI which will allow users to download content from Google. Audi A8 drivers will be able to map out trips using Google Maps or Google Earth. As a matter of fact, the Audi A8 is the first production vehicle to have Google Earth integrated into the navigation.
By inserting a SIM card into the A8 MMI setup or data-enabled phone supporting Bluetooth, A8 drivers will be able to have a 3D view of their surroundings using Google Earth in the MMI. The LCD display is 8 inches and supports terrain modeling.
The 2011 Audi A8 is one of the most high-tech upcoming vehicles to hit the roads in 2010. The Audi A8 is equipped with a 4.2 liter FSI V8 motor and 372 horsepower. Fuel consumption will be reduced by 15%. And the transmission of the A8 is eight-speed tiptronic transmission with manual mode. The A8 navigation system is very intuitive as well.
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