#19 you can rotate the couple doing it 360 in real time.

Vista’s big “feature” was the default theme it came with it.

A THEME! The Aero _theme_

7 years of development for a theme.

A globe is about as useful at displaying general information as the food pyramid is at telling us what to eat. But for displaying large scale geographic info, it will probably be ideal. And maybe other “round” things, like the human head. But is it really that practical, to go running around the other side of the display, to see all of it. Or simply using 3D software, on a flat display, and rotating the image, as we do now? This will be another rich man’s toy. We’ll see a giant version of it in a James Bond movie, someday. The evil tycoon will have half a dozen of, displaying all that he owns, or plans to own. Which reminds me, we’ve seen that already in, “The Spy Who Loved Me”. And a flat project of the oceans would have worked just as well, if not better. Because who could have seen the northern pacific on that huge round thing? Did it revolve to face the operator? I doubt it.

The one I think I saw somewhere that seemed useful was cubicle/office walls that were computer monitors.

When I worked in media and publishing we’d have print outs pinned up all over the walls and even on the floors — and on THOSE we had post it notes plastered all over.

It would be so cool to have them digitally on my walls and then moved around with laser pointer or something similar. Then, as other staff are working on them, they would be updated in all locations at once.

I would imagine there are lot of projects who could use something like this — anywhere you have tons and tons of details that all need to be brought together.

In between projects, I could have cool surf scenes or classic paintings.

Try as I might, I can’ think of a porn use for it.

I would much rather have a big flat screen pushed by a powerful video card. Then I could simulate a globe and scale and do everything I would like to do.

Perhaps someone will come up with a neat use for it, but I don’t see it. Seriously, I can only see one side at a time anyhow.

I’m sure it’s to get the early adopters going. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there with 10s of thousands of *cough* porn *cough* images that needs to be sorted. This tool would help them.