On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote: > http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/product.asp?cid=8&scid=105&pid=748 > > My sister's kids just got one of these for the holidays. It's an > interactive globe for education purposes that is "internet updateable" > via USB with new packages from the company for a fee. It would be > really neat to display other info on it. I haven't found any other > info online about people playing with it. Anybody know anything?
This looks intriguing, and potential in the way that the RoboSapien was for hacking. However, I can easily imagine this "internet update" is an unique, binary format that would be difficult to repurpose. I recently saw the "Science on a Sphere" at NASA Goddard (http://sos.noaa.gov/). It's powered by essentially a movie clip of individual images in spherical projection, and controlled with a WiiMote - but no real interactivity. It seems possible to create a spherical projection using a upwards facing projector into a globe with some optics. The 3D equivalent of the long-time-in-coming touch-tables. Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
