In October, Google acquired Keyhole, which offers a streaming GIS interface. I've been playing around with it for a few minutes, and i think its very interesting. Keyhole is the 3D digital earth pioneer—the only company to deliver a 3D digital model of... View full entry
The Pentagon started to build a new Internet six weeks ago, says the NYTimes, for "a God's-eye view" of battle. The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. View full entry
No more guns -- just a "killer" simulation app + multiplayer. The Runtime provides a stable, robust platform for interactive walkthroughs and simulations.Get the Unreal RUNTIME engine! View full entry
Forbes sez: Computer-aided-design tools are getting so cheap and powerful any metal-bending firm can find its inner Frank Gehry. View full entry
If NM2 fulfills its promise to the television of the future, viewers will be able to participate in storylines, manipulate plots and even the sets and props of TV shows. The BBC reports on this new interactive media genre being forged by the European Union. View full entry
The company claims to have developed a Revolutionary New Software for the Construction Industry, more in their website >> View full entry
Google has just announced it's newest software offering - Google Desktop. This new software can be used offline to search for information on your hard drive, in a similar fashion as it's hugely successful online search engine. Unfortunately the software isn't available for Mac. View full entry
The new 60GB iPod will have photo-viewing features. Due to be released in the next 30 to 60 days.read more >> (via Protein feed) View full entry
The buildings are fantastic explosions of curvilinear shapes, executed in ways that seem more appropriate for paper than structural steel. They're also representative of a dramatic new approach to designing and constructing buildings: building information modeling, or BIM, in which blueprints and... View full entry
Four Churchs in Moneterrey, Mexico, are illegally jamming cellphone signals with Israeli-made transmitters in order to keep the silence at Sunday Mass. Priests from all over the country want one, a new black market is on the rise. (More) View full entry
Jirka Jirout a Czech geek fitted his vehicle with an apple G4 and now drives what 'might be the most perfectly integrated computer-car on the planet'. (via ALT1040) View full entry
A note on the future of the 3D printer industry by Phil Gyford View full entry
Want to build a predator attack drone or design the next "bendy building" master piece? Well Dassault Systemes is offering a Student Version of CATIA - for a C Note! View full entry
Sometimes, you look around at all these gadgets and in a rare moment of inspiration or madness, you look at them all a little different”” connected in a way they are currently not, but perhaps should be, or at least could be. From bd4d View full entry
... including the long-anticipated 30" monster. All of a sudden my cinema screen looks dated and tiny... discuss. View full entry