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Well talk about waiting for a bus and two come along;  following on from the earlier “Google Liquid Galaxy” post spotted this video from TED 2010 featuring Blaise Aguera y Arcas who is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs and the co-creator of Photosynth.

Here he demos augmented-reality with Bing and shows some amazing features the show stopper being the live broadcast video footage he also talks about some more features including “time travel” no not Doctor Who but the facility to overlay images from the past with current, I think they may also have one up on Google with their  “back pack camera”  which enables street view inside.

All very impressive and expecting many more great things from both camps with their augmented and 3D offerings.

This video featuring Bill Nighy has been created by the people at Robin Hood Tax which is a group backed by many charities, unions and celebrities including Oxfam, the Salvation Army, Bono & Richard Curtis.

The idea is to call for an international transaction tax on investment banks with the alleged potential to raise as much as £250bn a year to bolster public services and fight climate change and poverty.

Will be interesting to see how it goes I bet a lot of politicians and economists will favour this approach to banking reform

This video of London shot in 1927 in “colour” is pretty impressive, check out the many sites how they used to look.

Looks like we may have been on the  ball with this one check out earlier post, Steve Jobs launched the iPad this evening. Even though it won’t be available for another 60+ days there is already an  iPad website.
The tablet does seem to have some good applications and features although we will have to wait and see if we get the chance to do a full hands on review

The site also has some good video content explaining this new device and also features “Jony Ive” the maestro of design at Apple.

With this new devices footprint and ability to utilise current apps looks like lots of interesting developments/opportunities ahead for lots of businesses including travel.

As Jony says

” This defines our vision, our sense of what is next!”