yet another infographically 'inspired' movie, here dealing about the consquences of a 'Big Brother' state.

it seems the Iraq war movie was quite influential/inspirational in its use of contemporary visual style, which has also been adopted by Google master plan.

[link: bigbrotherstate.com & youtube.com]

an electronically enhanced umbrella that conveys the weather through a multimodal visualization experience. a user walks with a umbrella, augmented with a speaker, color-LEDs & a hand fan, over a big worldmap & can hear, see and feel the weather of a certain place of the world. the weather data comes from the Yahoo-Weather-Internet service, which offers XML-Files for many cities of the world.
The umbrella is connected to a motor to drive the speed of the fan, while white (thunderstorm), blue (rain or wind) & yellow (sun) LED lights show the weather-light-atmosphere, where the user at the moment stays.

see also weather forecast umbrella.html & tangible weather channel.html.

[link: fh-wuerzburg.de|via hackaday.com]

By opening Google Earth and selecting the new WWF layer under "Global Awareness," you too can visit this extraordinary place. Watch this and over 150 WWF projects across the world and connect with WWF’s global website.Track Campo Ma’an’s progress; it will take some time, but if we succeed in this project, both the local communities and the park will benefit.

The first time I flew over southern West Virginia and saw mountaintop removal coal mining from the air, I knew that if everyone could see what I had seen—mountain after mountain blown up and then dumped into streams in the neighboring valleys—they would think twice about where their electricity came from the next time they flipped a light switch.

That's why we at Appalachian Voices, and our partner groups, created the National Memorial for the Mountains, using Google Earth to tell the stories of more than 470 mountains that have been lost, as the centerpiece of our website www.iLoveMountains.org. We never imagined that those stories would now be available to over 200 million people as part of the latest release of featured content in Google Earth.

Now it's your turn to fly over the region. I invite you to take a look at the mountaintop removal layer in the new featured content for Google Earth. Look for "Appalachian Mountaintop Removal" under the "Global Awareness" folder of the "Layers" sidebar. You can take the site tour of a mountaintop removal operation, explore the featured mountains and affected communities marked with blue flag buttons, and use the slider bar to see high resolution images of these mountains before and after mountaintop removal. To view all the locations of the over 470 mountains that have been destroyed, please visit the full featured version of the Memorial on www.iLoveMountains.org.

Thanks for visiting and helping us spread the word, and thanks to everyone at Google Earth who worked so hard to help us bring this important information to life.