Archive for the 'Travel' Category
Google mashup with photos and wikipedia entries!
Google mashup
Air Travel and Web 2.0 are making a tremendous impact in India. Here is the definitive list of Travel 2.0 in India.
“Tracksticks are small GPS location recorders capable of continuously [...]
“It took six months for Liberation journalist Ondine Millot to get to the truth about the most sordid side of France’s housing crisis.” - BBC
France’s sordid housing crisis
Flickr images as they are uploaded. Clever mashup.
Flickrvision
Chemicals, contaminants, pollution, price: new reasons to rethink what you drink and beware of bottled water.
Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water
Today Amazon launched an electronic reader to read books, magazines, blogs etc. on the move. 3 years in production, the look and feel gives the impression that it has been in production for 30 years without any recent updates. You can buy books via Amazon’s book store from anywhere using the inbuilt wireless technology used [...]
The team from Carnegie Mellon University finished first in the DARPA Urban Challenge where robotic cars were to complete a fully autonomous 60-mile journey including turns, intersections, overtaking and flat out cruising. Stanford came in second with Victor Tango in third place. MIT finished sixth. (via Scobleizer)
Carnegie Mellon and GM’s Boss Wins DARPA Urban [...]
“India has emerged the most popular destination for British patients wanting to undergo surgery for ailments that would otherwise take months to treat in the National Health Service (NHS).”
“Several websites based in India and Britain act as a single-window facility to arrange treatment for British nationals. Many of them return home, singing praises to the [...]
Think well before you travel to USA on a visa!
Atrocities in American Airports
“Galactic Suite”, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay. - CNN
Fly me to the moon: [...]
Not physically, metaphorically… The kind of flights that are expected in the 21st Century are finally here, well at least in America. Virgin America, the new Airline by Richard Branson’s Virgin group, has an unrivalled in-flight entertainment system. Aesthetics, personal screens (commonplace), a QWERTY controller (not so common), Linux based systems running Google Maps , [...]
Quite impressive collection!
Pictures from the sky
Photo Tourism is a project by Microsoft and Washington University in which a 3D model of a scene is generated from various arbitary picures of the same scene/monument and then allows the user to browse through the contributing pictures using the 3D model. See a live demo on the website (link below). Also see a [...]
An interesting compilation of some key facts about some geographically tiny countries.
The 5 Smallest Countries in the World
Interested in Photography? Shunya has some of the best travel pictures of India. Check’em out.
Shunya’s travel pictures from India
