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Google's Street View trike goes where no Street View has gone before
Google has built Street View into a fairly comprehensive collection of images from city streets around the world. The problem is that Google's iconic street view vans can't get into every tight nook and cranny. That's why the big G is introducing a new camera-equipped vehicle: the Street View Trike. The trike is coming to a walkable space near you, if you nominate your favorite spot.The trike is actually a bike with a camera-equipped cart attached to it. It looks a lot like one of those ice cream carts, except that instead of ice cream, it's carrying thousands of dollars of photo equipment. Locations the trike has already visited include Legoland, California. Check out the video after the jump for more fun trike action.
[via Lifehacker]
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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Malaycobra said 10:54PM on 10-16-2009
Feels like April 1st...
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Apfelgluck said 6:03AM on 10-17-2009
A simple trike... with thousands of dollars' worth of photo equipment : I just love that combination of old simple traditional stuff (though when the wheel was invented it wasn't then so traditional!) and modern technology: yeps, big hands don't make their way through needles :)
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