Google Maps Navigation lets you search along your route. Search for any business by name or type, or turn on popular layers such as gas stations, restaurants, or parking.
Google Maps Navigation (Beta): traffic view
Google Maps Navigation features traffic view. An on-screen indicator glows green, yellow, or red based on the current traffic conditions along your route. A single touch on the indicator toggles a traffic view that shows the traffic ahead.
Google Maps Navigation (Beta): search by voice
With Google Maps Navigation, you can search by voice. Speak your destination instead of typing (English only): “Navigate to the de Young Museum in San Francisco”.
Google Maps Navigation (Beta): search in plain English
With Google Maps Navigation, you can search in plain English. No need to know the address. You can type a business name (e.g. starbucks) or even a kind of a business (e.g. thai restaurant), just like you would on Google.
Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
a demonstration of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps on
Android 2.0 phones.
Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
http://www.ted.com Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Voicemail, the Google way
Google Voice with your existing number allows you to get many of the features of Google Voice, without changing your phone number. Learn more at http://www.google.com/voice
Google Earth Hero: Chief Almir and the Surui tribe of Amazon
After observing the effects of illegal logging on the Surui indigenous people’s territory in Google Earth, Chief Almir Surui began using Google Earth to protect the rainforest and preserve his people’s way of living in harmony with the rain forest.
Google Earth Hero: Save The Elephants
For over 20 years, Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, has used Google Earth
to track, study, and protect elephants from poaching with geofences and satellite collars on elephants.