Google Street View Hyperlapse

A San Fransisco digital company, Teehan+Lax Labs, have created a nifty app to create a 'hyperlapse' (video technique using timelapse and a moving camera) using the data from Google StreetView.  It's very clever and inventive, the original files that created it are available to the public (who know how to use it) and it's very addictive!

I've been trying to tour around Lincoln Cathedral using the Hyperlapse app.

Google Re-invents the Touch Screen Keyboard

Google has for a long time been at the front of invention and innovation and have released yet another new way of dealing with everyday technology.  In an attempt to solve the problem of needing a very small keyboard on the small screens that smart phones naturally have, they have enlisted a relative of Morse Code co-inventor Samuel F B Morse to develop a new way of inputting text.

Gmail Tap, in the new Gmail app for smart phones, gets rid of the normal keyboard and replaces it with just two buttons for Morse Code input; one for dot and one for dash.  The Gmail Tap website gives a guide to learning Morse Code and, once learnt, users can write two things simultaneously, raising productivity twofold.