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Modular cellphones are a neat concept. Rather than buying a new phone once the technology gets outdated, you could simply swap the outdated part for the brand new one. In a simple sense, it is this idea that forms the basis of Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone.
A hilarious video that imagines what things would be like if Google was a guy working in a traditional office, solving people’s queries face to face.
Here’s what makes Google the visual experience you know. The icons, images, photographs all have a solid design backing deciding what they should look like and what colors have to be utilized. Google Visual Assets Guidelines is quite an interesting view, even if you have little interest in design.
An obscene quantity of data passes through the tubes at Google’s data centers. Captured for a new website, these images form a project called Where the Internet Lives and while not technically correct, that phrase is pretty close. We’re just smitten by the sheer expanse of these data centers. The set moved through eight data centers of the internet giant.
Checkout this demonstration of Google’s augmented reality glasses. It lets you do stuff on the go, apparently working with awesome gestural interfaces where the user has to do little more than move his eyes. The video just shows the concept at the moment and apparently is about giving screen time to a guy who can learn to play a ukulele in a couple of hours. But yeah, Project Glass looks seriously cool.
Google worked with Modify Watches to come up with a range of timepieces that their fans would adore. The watches all have simple looks and you could choose between three designs; Chrome, Android or a regular Google watch. The rather simplistically designed analog watches have interchangeable color bands. Priced at $60. Via Ubergizmo
The video here shows giant pumpkins being carved out at Google’s Mountain View, CA campus. They spent about 8 hours carving these pumpkins, and made them shine.
We’ve already seen a batch of propaganda posters from Aaron Wood. Now he’s got more on the war between Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. Checkout the new batch, you can also buy prints for the posters on Etsy.
One of the big features Google Plus likes to talk about is the inclusion of circles, where you can effectively categorize people in your network. If the experience with Facebook and Twitter tells us anything, we will have a lot of people there with whom we have no acquaintance, or awkward friendships at best. This …
However smart it may be, Google Earth is a software and it has its limitations. Which means it gets a bit confused, showing us scenarios like drooping bridges, suspended roads and dimensions gone haywire. Of course, since continuously updates its software, these abnormalities may soon disappear. Thankfully, artist Clement Valla has an excellent selection of screenshots offering such weird perspectives. Check ’em out, they’re totally worth it.