In case you are wondering, the house is on Ellidaey Island off the SW coast of Iceland

If you fancied a new interest, you could probably knock up something yourself using the Google maps API.
https://developers.google.com/maps/

If you want to leave legacy photos for your offspring, could I urge you leave hard copy versions.

A recent project I have been involved in has shown how rapidly things can change.

Making use of the 100 year old photographs was easy.

Trying to retieve 20 and 30 year old text and graphics files was a nightmare. Finding working drives for old format discs then trying to convert what were once relatively mainstream file formats took hours of work and proved simply impossible in a couple of cases . I spent three weeks trying to find someone with a working zip drive only to find that the disc I had was corrupted.

Thought you might like to see an image of the next ipad.
Though larger , do notice that it is still rectangular, still thin, still has rounded corners and users can continue to use the 'pinch to zoom' geature.

Hang on a minute.

This pic is from a 1983 book - The Joy of Computers - Peter Laurie.

Didn't apple invented all of these design features and the pinch gesture ?

[flash=600,500:25sb4j7q]http://www.youtube.com/v/gbjW57zlVfc[/flash:25sb4j7q]

How far we have come ...

[flash=600,500:3exjazhb]http://www.youtube.com/v/pzqdoXwLBT8[/flash:3exjazhb]

I liked the style and the rendering/simulation

Absolutely mad idea tho'

I thought this looked like an interesting project
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328546.200-thermal-flashlight-paints-cold-rooms-with-colour.html

or...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game

[flash=600,500:3okvwn16]http://www.youtube.com/v/gBxeju8dMho[/flash:3okvwn16]

[flash=600,500:2svsdbsa]http://www.youtube.com/v/YDHJEbTPs7o[/flash:2svsdbsa]

I think this is really amazing

This what the author of this video says about it

@unknownuser said:

Got a Kinect for Father's Day. After two nights of hacking with the new SDK, I created this holographic display effect. What you're seeing is a monitor lying flat on a table. The Kinect detects the position of your head and the software adjusts the image to give the illusion of an object standing on the monitor. This is not post-processing like most AR demo's you see.
The software consists of my own simple 3D engine and a very simple vertex shader to do the transformation of the perspective.

Yes I think its a fake too. There lots of small clues here and there

[flash=600,500:2njfxwdf]http://www.youtube.com/v/Ka10gNdYCxA[/flash:2njfxwdf]

Spotted this site on "Click" a UK TV program

http://androidboy1.blogspot.com/

For Sketchup users I would think that this

http://androidboy1.blogspot.com/2010/10/smart-measure-ver-10-manual.html

could be very useful

[flash=600,500:1u6y76z4]http://www.youtube.com/v/E2J2OMFf6jk[/flash:1u6y76z4]

[flash=600,500:1h8t6s30]http://www.youtube.com/v/nt8oHv09e_k[/flash:1h8t6s30]

[flash=600,500:2anok883]http://www.youtube.com/v/mBOdZ6nhDJg[/flash:2anok883]

Now there's a Sketchy Physics project

When I taught science in a large inner sity school, we had an astronomy topic for the 14 year olds.
One question I always posed was
'How many stars do you think there are altogether'

So what do think the largest number that the students ever guessed ?
10 million ? 100 milliom ? 1 billion ?

No...

10
(not 10 million or 10 thousand ) just 10

Because from that light polluted estate that was (and still is) all you could see, even on a good night.

This work, by Michael Hansmeyer, looked very interesting, especially the laser cut cardboard models

More information and video
http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/columns_info.html?screenSize=1&color=0

Over at the Corner Bar Aerilius put up a link to a nice javascript model viewer

http://finnrudolph.de/JavaScriptObject/Introduction

Which comes with an image file generator plug-in for sketchup. It all works very well, but if you want to change the parameters of the plug-in - viewpoint, number of frames etc. you have to edit the plugin in notepad and resave it.

http://finnrudolph.de/JavaScriptObject/SketchUp

It would be much easier if there were a dialogue display as with other plugins. I've emailed the original author to suggets this, but as he hasn't updated the plug for over a year he may have lost interest in it.

As the plugin-in is Creative Commons licenced , maybe someone on here could adapt the script instead?