Cool Stuff

November 24, 2009Cool Stuff, general, Human Geography

Amazing film footage of San Francisco in 1905

When the main focus of your work is historical landscapes, like mine is, your biggest obstacles is finding good data about what that landscape looked like. I know I would […]
November 20, 2009Cool Stuff, general, space (not spatial)

Cool views of the International Space Station with Photosynth

Two things that are definitely high on my cool list – space stuff and Photosynth – have come together to allow you to take a virtual tour – inside and […]
October 13, 2009Cool Stuff, general

A Little Early Halloween treat from VerySpatial

We received a very curious request from Ed, one of our long-time readers, who wanted to see the VerySpatial folks get down with their own Monster Mash. And, of course, […]
September 30, 2009Cool Stuff, general

Just a friendly reminder….

I couldn’t resist the urge to try a little more moviemaking, so here is a little PSA about a problem all of us GIS geeks out there have encountered at […]
September 23, 2009Cool Stuff, general, Podcast, TV

VerySpatial TV 41 – Xtranormal

So, while perusing the latest and greatest stuff on the intertubes, I can across a cool site called Xtranormal, which offers you some fun tools to create your own animated […]
August 27, 2009Cool Stuff, Gadgets, general

MAPTOR – Cool Concept for Projecting Your Maps on the Go

Some of you may have seen this already, but here’s a cool concept for those times when you just want to see a map, or when you want to point […]
August 14, 2009Cool Stuff, general, Social Networking, Software

MySynths – Photosynth meets Facebook

As many of you know, I just love Photosynth, so naturally I had to post when I was catching up on tech news this afternoon and read about MySynths, a […]
July 29, 2009Cool Stuff, general

Eye-Fi SD Card Adds Geotagging to Pics

Engadget is reporting the release of Eye-Fi’s new WiFi enabled SD card. It provided automatic geotagging for life for all your pictures. The product is designed specifically to work with […]
June 18, 2009Cool Stuff, general

The Solar Human Hybrid Project – by an 8th Grader!

Anyway you do the math, the SOHH Project is one pretty cool ride. The vehicle holds four people (plus a dog!) and cargo, and runs off solar and person power. […]
June 16, 2009Cool Stuff, general, LBS

Layar – Augmented Reality for Android and iPhone 3GS

Jesse and I are on the road covering the Game Education Summit, but I wanted to take a quick minute and post this video preview of Layar, an Augmented Reality […]