Cool advances in technology - from SIGGRAPH 2008.

This is pretty darn cool - advances in Photosynth that build a 3D scene and then put a load of photos of that scene in it, so that as you move from place to place you see different photos of it.

This is waaay cooler though - using still photos to enhance video footage - it looks at video footage, works out what the 3D world in it looks like, and then uses photos to enhance it. And then allows for all sorts of editing of that footage - including editing of it. The final example (the flower shop) is particularly impressive.

New tech stuff

New find of the day - wua.la - distributed online storage. Back your files up to _everywhere_.

I can see it working, so long as it's successful - it's a very neat idea. You upload your files to their servers - and also to other user's machines. When you need to download them they're downloaded from somewhere else in the 'grid', unless those other machines are off, at which point they're pulled from the central servers. This saves them a lot of money.

The whole thing's encrypted, and files are broken into chunks, so nobody else can rifle through your files.

And the neatest thing is, so long as they've designed it well, the more successful they get, the cheaper it gets for them to run.

Anyone else bumped into it yet?