Google Body Browser

The latest lab invented by Google - Body Browser.

It provides a detailed 3D model of a human body, which uses WebGL to display.  There are several options to navigate and browse through your body, to name some:

• Skin (outlook)
• Bone
• Muscle
• Organ
• etc...

Or you can search by typing keywords.

A YouTube video showing the Body Browser:

So now you can be more familiar with your body, but you need to have a latest new of Google Chrome 9 beta/dev/canary, or Firefox 4 beta.

Source:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-body-browser.html

Charles

Visualizing Friendships - Facebook Worldmap

This is a very beautiful image created - base on the friendships among all Facebook users.

Paul Bulter, an intern working in Facebook, has used the data of 500 million people regarding their social relationship to construct an image of the world.

Copyright Paul Bulter/Facebook.

The image of Facebook Worldmap is generated using the R Project for statistical computing, he inputted all the coordinate of the cities and generate base on the data in the repository.  The image is also visualizing the user base of Facebook in the world.

A pretty good looking image that you can know the majority of Facebook users located...

The original thread by the author:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919.ksh/sg

Charles

Chrome OS test pilot programme

Are you living in the US?

Good for you!  You have a chance to register and try out the latest developing Chrome operating system.  For those IT enthusiastic person living in the States, you may register the Chrome OS pilot program on or before 21 December 2010, Google will choose the right users to try it out.  For those who've been selected in the programme, they will receive a Cr-48 Chrome notebook and test it out.  They are asked to send feedback to Google regularly as well.

I wouldn't mind - or should I say I love to do so, just like help the research of Google Voice in Cantonese before - to send regular feedback and would like to be one of the tester, sadly it's not available in Hong Kong.

Charles

Google Nexus S

Google Nexus S is finally there!

Official video


Behind the scenes: Party


Official Website:
http://www.google.com/nexus

Official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html