Gadgets

• April 25, 2011Cool Stuff

  oh, so wrong

  This is one of Threadless’s new designs for the week…entitled ‘Pop It‘. Of course if you like globe oriented t-shirts you may want to check out Threadless’s back catalog. For […]

• April 24, 2011Cool Stuff

  Game of Thrones opening

  HBO’s new Game of Thrones has an awesome opening that ties cartography, 3D, and steam punk in a great way.

• April 4, 2011Cool Stuff, Gadgets

  A touchable interface

  A year ago, the weekend after Where 2.0, we headed up to San Francisco to hang out with friends, to check out WonderCon, and for me to wait in line […]

• April 3, 2011Gadgets, LBS

  World’s First GLONASS Smartphone

  In a world where GPS enabled smartphones are as passe as intermittent wipers on cars and coffee makers with clocks in them, it’s neat to read some exciting new location […]

• March 9, 2011Cool Stuff, general, space (not spatial)

  Welcome Home, Discovery, and Thanks for the Memories…

  We’ve had more space posts than usual in the last week or so, but I wanted to give a shoutout to the Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew, for the […]

• March 2, 2011Cool Stuff

  Geospatial Revolution, Episode 3

  If any of my students have found the blog this semester…they now know how I am going to start class on Friday.

• February 24, 2011Cool Stuff, general, space (not spatial)

  Shuttle Discovery set for its final launch today

  It’s the beginning of the end of an era for NASA’s shuttle program, as Discovery is set for its final launch at 4:50pm EST today, with Endeavor’s final mission currently […]

• February 12, 2011Cool Stuff, VirtualEnvironments

  Project Galileo

  Since I seem to be highlighting software that I am interested in getting time to work with lately, I thought I would return to Project Galileo, a great project that […]

• February 5, 2011Cool Stuff

  One of my favorite pre-SuperBowl commercials

  I know this has already made its blog rounds, but after using it as a PSA in class this week I just wanted to share it again. Just remember, while […]

• January 27, 2011Cool Stuff, general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

  3D Street-style Mapping with Kinect

  Almost daily, I see a new cool and amazing hack that someone has accomplished with Microsoft’s Kinect that tops the last one. I’m hoping to try my hand at some […]