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You never know what you’ll find when playing around with the 360-degree street view feature on Google Maps. For example, here is something spotted that we’re sure isn’t an experience that is to be remembered as a happy one. For some reason, someone (a woman no doubt) decided to slam her Mercedes into a pole, exactly where the panorama camera was set for taking photos. Did that stop the people over at Google? Psh, as if! Snap, snap. You got... Continue reading

As you sit and look through your old photos, your bound to come across a few that make you debate whether you are a flagrant alcoholic. Where the hell was this picture taken and why are my balls taped to my ass? Sound familiar? Anybody? Well, then. The Sony GPS-CS1KA GPS allows for you to add in a location to your image, in addition to the usual time and date listed in the exif file. When you use the special... Continue reading

Moon In My Room [Boing Boing] – Not the sort of full moon we’d like in our beds, but cool nonetheless. Yoshitomo Nara Clock [SweatyFrog] – A really cool clock design using 84 art pieces by the artist. Low-Res Man [Core77] – Made out of 1cm acrylic glass cubes, this human figure looks to be a 3D model of a 2D pixelated world. Google Maps At The Gas Pump [Electronista] – Why wasn’t this done sooner? – Andrew Dobrow

That old expression “Go fly a kite”, which is basically a nice way to go tell people to go f*ck themselves, is brought to mind with this Cursor Kite. Since the kite string is almost invisible to the human eye the kite just looks like a real-life floating cursor, which is just beyond awesome. The Cursor Kite reminds us of the real-life Google Maps icons that were floating around recently. Integrating small time tech with big time earth is such... Continue reading