flickr meet Photosynth - endless possibilites

To the Visual Communicator's eye (mine atleast) TED appears like a financial information website, not a host to a wealth of creative minds and their talks. But delve a little deeper and look beyond all the formalities (not to mention BMW all over everything) and you will learn a lot. Particularly new and emerging technologies.

(Photosynth Video)

I've just watched this video, and as always with technology am gazing from afar, 'Mmm, that's really clever...But really freaky and I want nothing-to-do-with-it and none of my photos involved'.

The technology is amazing, it reminds me of when I first discovered Illustrator uses vectors and doesn't pixelate, and well, the Notre Dame speaks for itself.

If I manage to get over my freaked out state, I would investigate getting my most local and favourite sculpture, Aldeburgh's Scallop all 3D and meta-tagged. If you can access the Photosynth software it should work, as there are hundreds of images of Maggi Hambling's Scallop on flickr.