September 15, 2008

Cool recent tech: Lifelike 3D, image detection, & more

I’m more than a little snowed under right now with preparations for next week’s announcement, but I wanted to share a few interesting finds:

• Photographers are always asking for better ways to prevent misuse of their works, and TinEye promises to help by using image-recognition techniques to find images in the wild.  Ars Technica’s got details.
• I’m delighted to see that Cooliris, the very cool browser technology formerly known as PicLens (see previous raving), is available once again for Safari.  I’d forgotten how much I missed it until it returned recently.  The developers are also offering an embeddable Flash-powered version for use on your own sites.
• 3D technology is getting waaay too realistic these days.  [Via Daniel Presedo & Zorana Gee]  Tangentially related?: Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars.