this year.

When it comes to useful new product development Google has been the leader with products like Google Earth and Picasa (which they aquired, but I still find it one of the most useful pieces of software I use). Today I viewed a great video of a product Photosynth by Micosoft’s new team ‘Microsoft Live Lab’. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. It creates a DNA finger print of an image and can then look for similar images that you have taken (or that others have taken of the same location) and stitch them together into a 3D-esque environment. The result is amazing. I want to try this product. I would have no problem opening up my images to being analysed in this fashion so they could be used in Photosynth. Check out the video.