Archive for January, 2007



Microsoft Photosynth Tech Preview

I saw this first at last year’s SIGGRAPH. Photosynth is the name for what seems to have become the actual product. It is really spiffy, fly around famous scenes around the world, focusing on pictures taken by various people through time.

Check out the Piazza San Pietro in Rome for an amazing Tech Preview. And it works in Firefox! (but you need Windows XP or Vista)

Winter surprise

We’ve been feeling as if we were caught in an Indian Summer, with 23 degrees celsius on January 15th, only 4 days ago. But yesterday morning, I was in for a surprise as I walked out of the door: