Hasta La Gadget!

Previously, free rein to explore the labyrinthine laboratory that is CERN has been granted only to the lucky, or those with four degrees and an aptitude for finding theoretical particles. That changes today, however, as anyone can now explore the home of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland through Google Street View. All the imagery was captured back in 2011, but it’s finally been stitched together, allowing you to wander freely around the site of the famous particle accelerator and learn a little about its experiments. Hit up Google Views to begin your personal guided tour, and let us know if you spot this Higgs fellow everyone’s so keen on finding.

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Source: Google Views, Google Europe Blog

Once you’re done couch-surfing that spectacular Google Street View of the Burj Khalifa, you can now head on over a few thousand miles with a click of the mouse to the Eiffel Tower, where the views are no less impressive. The fine folks over at Mountain View used a special Street View Trolley to capture marvelous 360-degree shots from every floor of the historical monument as part of a collaboration with the Eiffel Tower Operating Company. Google’s Cultural Institute then collated all those images and presented them in three online exhibits along with historical documents that tell the story of the landmark’s birth and cultural impact. You can head over to the Cultural Institute link below to get a slice of Parisian history, or just take a peek after the break to see a video of how those panoramic shots were taken. Unfortunately, you’ll have to supply your own croissants.

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Source: Google Cultural Institute, Google Blog, Google Street View

The folks from Mountain View are constantly adding more and more features to Street View — and, well, today’s no exception. Via its Maps blog, Google announced that it’s giving Street View a hefty boost by adding over 1,000 fresh destinations to the mix, noting that the idea is to make it “more comprehensive and useful for you.” There’s new imagery from places in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and, of course, the US, allowing users to check out sites like the Seville Cathedral (Spain), Bosque de Chapultepec (Mexico), The Mark Twain House (USA) and many, many others. Google’s highlighted some of these new destinations on its website, so pay the source link below a visit if you’re interested in a quick, virtual tour around the world.

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If you’ve been taking far too many virtual road trips after employing the (unofficial) Street View Hyperlapse chauffeur, you may be running out of places to go next. Well, today Google has added Hungary and Lesotho (a country within South Africa) to the list of lands you can vicariously visit, which brings the total number of Street View-catalogued countries to 50. This being the “largest single update” since, well, the last big one, Google has also added “new and updated imagery for nearly 350,000 miles of roads across 14 countries,” including more places of interest for its special collections, thanks to the Street View trike. So, why venture outdoors this lunchtime, when you can wander the streets of Budapest instead?

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Source: Google Lat-Long Blog

It’s been more than two years since the tragic Eastern Japan tsunami and resulting Fukushima Prefecture nuclear plant crisis, but many of those who lived in affected areas still can’t return: witness the 21,000 residents of Namie, who had to evacuate and haven’t been back since. Thanks to a newly published Google Street View run, those former residents can once more see the town they had to leave. The 360-degree imagery shows Namie in the deserted state it faces today, with little recovery work done or possible. Google’s photos can’t accelerate the recovery process, but Mayor Tamotsu Baba views them as an incentive to eventually return — and a better way for the rest of the world to understand the tsunami’s long-term effects.

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Via: Google Official Blog

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