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My, Times Square is looking particularly lush today.
(Credit: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)
If you want to see New York as a wilderness area, you can watch the CGI makeover in “I Am Legend,” or turn to the Urban Jungle Street View site. Urban Jungle takes advantage of a little-known part of Street View called depth data. This allows the positioning of objects in the correct 3D space, so it really looks like a tree is growing out of the middle of Times Square.
It can be hard to navigate around once you’re in the Urban Jungle map because the usual Street View directional cues are absent. Also, everything that might look familiar is covered in vegetation. This is really more about the novelty of slathering Street View locations with greenery. It works best in locations with tall buildings, but feel free try it out on your own house.
The Urban Jungle experiment may not be around for long. Einar Öberg, the site’s cre… [Read more]
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For the last half century, space junk has been circling the earth in very destructive patterns. Now an Australian team of scientists addresses the problem head on armed with high- tech, infra-red lasers that will zap the debris out into space. Read on for more information.
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Streaming services, set-top boxes and dongles are dominating HD news this week, and there’s quite a few to discuss. Rumors are bubbling up about more Amazon hardware to match the competition’s offerings and Chromecast continues to make headlines with…
A city as progressive as Springfield—renowned globally for its renewable energy production—should be on the forefront of public transit innovation. But as we’ve learned this week, Springfield is rife with transportation shortcomings.
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The pinnacle achievement in active eyewear was once simply making a pair of sunglasses that were light and wouldn’t shatter into your eyeballs. While that’s still important, technology has obviously progressed. So what is the future, exactly? Heads-up displays? Augmented reality? Cybernetic retinal implants?
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The verdict on virtual reality seems to be in: the future of the technology is in fully immersive, face bound ski-goggles that block out your physical perceptions in favor of digitally created wonderlands. Well, unless you’re looking at Seebright’s…
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