From Engadget.com:
The UK product design firm PDD is set to demonstrate the Helix, a concept cellphone, at 3GSM next week in Cannes. The screen on the phone swivels completely around, giving you full view of it whether it’s opened or closed…
Well, Google have done it again with another killer web app. Google Maps is really quite stunning in it’s implementation. It’s fast, and the map display is good quality. You can drag the map about just as you’d expect to be able to, and you can search for almost any company or organisation and it’ll pick it out on the map for you. It doesn’t use Flash or Java, in fact I haven’t entirely worked out how it works yet.
In short, Google Maps works entirely as you’d expect. Only trouble is, it currently only covers the United States. Come on Google, give us UK maps!
Edit: Somebody has already dissected Google Maps.
Well, I’ve only just got here and I’ve already been having problems with the site. The Apache service on the server I’m on kept dying and so the site was unavailable for quite some time. A quick check of the ASO forums revealed that it was a side effect of so many people moving in onto the newest server.
I’m going to give ASO the benefit of the doubt for now and see how it pans out over the week.
PixelHum, the new website from danbee. Risen from the ashes that was ClockRocket.net, PixelHum will document the hobbies and interests of a lone techie living in a big world.
I have had an interesting idea that might combat comment spam in an effective way. I’m going to have a play and see if it is actually feasible though, so watch this space. I could just be covering old ground.