Decaying Detroit: Google Street View Shows Change Over Time
The dark architectural equivalent of 'Faces of Meth,' these compiled Google Street View images of Detroit from 2009 through 2013 paint a poignant portrait of decay in the city. Entitled ...
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Virtual LEGO Blocks: Build with Chrome, Set on Google Maps
Build with Chrome is the new, fast and simple model-maker in town, and this one lets you create structures faster than digital SketchUp or physical LEGOs ever could. Of course, this Chrome ...
Extreme Street View: Google Employee Maps Deserted Island
Street View has mapped much more than roads in its, but sending a lone urban explorer through the haunting multistory ruins of a remote island may be one of their riskiest geographic ventures ...
Phonebloks Unlocked: Google Backs Modular Mobile Phone
More than the sum of its parts, the conceptual swappable-piece mobile phone design that went viral but is now being backed by Google-owned Motorola and is suddenly much closer to becoming a ...
Google Maps-Inspired Birdhouse Guides Birds Home
This little orange icon tells us just where we need to go on Google Maps - and now it shows birds where home is, too. Designer Shuchun Hsiao has created a series of birdhouses modeled after the ...
Art Imitates Digital Life: Real-World Google Map Pins
When you look up a city on Google Maps, a little red icon shows you exactly where the center of that city is - and it even casts a shadow, making it seem as if it's a part of the cities itself. ...
Chelsea Illustrated: Google’s History-Telling Mural
Scaffolding is rarely attractive, but Google might just change that perception with a 450-foot mural by Brooklyn design studio Dark Igloo that wraps around its building in New York City. 'Chelsea ...
Nine Eyes of Google: Street View’s Strangest Images
As Google's Street View vans cruise around the world, they don't just capture static images of roads, buildings and fields. They take candid snapshots of humanity - images that can be funny, ...
Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View
Google's Street View has made it easier for us to find our destinations, but has it influenced us in other ways as well? When Google sent out a fleet of automobiles armed with GPS units, laser ...
10 Urban Snaphots: Google Street View Pictures Freeze Time
Google Street View has changed the way that people interact with online maps as well as real cities. Controversial and illicit images as well as strange photographic glitches have only heightened the ...
