Nick Thompson’s first-person map

2009 October 11
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by Skud

I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but life got a bit crazy and I forgot. In any case, Nick Thompson is a now-ex-colleague from Freebase who came in on his last day at the office with this fantastic gadget that he’d hacked together:

It shows you the geography around you and the stars, moon, and sun in the sky, based on various data sources that he mashed together. You can even look directly downward past your feet to the antipodes, and see Australia from the under-side. You can also use the gadget as a clock and calendar by noting the position of astronomical bodies — a kind of modern Stonehenge.

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7 Responses
  1. Alexander Marks permalink
    October 11, 2009

    Incredible project. There’s more info on Nick’s site: http://nixweb.com/you-are-here/

  2. Theory permalink
    October 11, 2009

    Holy shit that’s cool! There must be some sort of commercial opportunity in that device. What a stupendous hack!

    —Theory

  3. Bettina Tizzy permalink
    October 12, 2009

    Want! Oh, I want soooo badly. Seriously.

  4. polarbear128 permalink
    October 13, 2009

    reminds me of this:

    http://www.google.com/sky/skymap.html

  5. Serafina permalink
    October 15, 2009

    I was going to say the same thing. My G1 does that same thing except it’s just the sky… don’t see why they couldn’t expand it to land-based features too!

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