Views on Vista : Photosynth Technology Preview is Live!

I havn’t had time to check this out (doesn’t run well behind my work connection, apparently) - but it looks very interesting.

I’m just hoping I can load a whole bunch of my photos into it of a given area for it to analyse, etc.

From Slashdot, there’s an article about NEC’s new “electromechanical sommelier”.

Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle,

Apparently NEC were showing it off to a bunch of reporters, when one smartass put his hand into the robot, and was identified as Bacon. A Cameraman was identified as prosciutto*… Very interesting.

It just proves Cameramen and Photographers are of a higher grade than Reporters.

* = The reports differ in who was actually identified as what, but I’m going with this version of events.