{"id":2620,"date":"2004-10-28T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2004-10-28T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T13:24:49","slug":"a-couple-of-technological-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/a-couple-of-technological-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of technological notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>3D without the glasses<\/b><br \/>\nWell, the wrist-phones and the robots have already arrived and, lo and behold, the 3-D monitor is knocking at the door. <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20041028\/D860FBT80.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">It&#8217;s a flat-panel monitor from Sharp that looks like any other LCD screen until you hit a button and watch the image deepen into the screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharp3d.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The monitor isn&#8217;t cheap and it isn&#8217;t very practical<\/a>, but engineers, architects and other professionals who work with 3-D imaging may be able to justify its $1,499 price<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Google Digital Maps<\/b><br \/>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20041028\/D860HFJ80.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Google Inc. (GOOG) has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp., extending the search engine leader&#8217;s bid to fend off rivals with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keyhole uses 3-D technology to provide faraway or close-up views of a region, neighborhood or specific address. The images, which rely on shots taken from satellites and airplanes, can be tilted into different positions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do I feel like we should start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/004392.php\">keeping an eye on Google<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>both via 7d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D without the glasses Well, the wrist-phones and the robots have already arrived and, lo and behold, the 3-D monitor is knocking at the door. It&#8217;s a flat-panel monitor from Sharp that looks like any other LCD screen until you hit a button and watch the image deepen into the screen. The monitor isn&#8217;t cheap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}