Things In My Head

Google is introducing their self-driving race car to enter into Nascar this year…

From the Google Racecar website:

Ever since mankind could go fast, we have longed to go faster. And ever since we’ve done work, we have longed to have someone else, or something else, do that work for us. You might already be familiar with our self-driving car project. We’ve spent years working on a tough engineering problem—how to create a hardware and software…

Some of us may remember this game from the 80′s, and now it’s being revived as an iPad game/app

Apparently Sir Richard Branson has his eyes on traveling to the center of the Earth with his new Virgin Volcanic division.

From his website:

Only 500 people have been to space, only three people have been to the bottom of the ocean, but no one has ever attempted to journey to the core of an active volcano. Until now.

The team behind Virgin Volcanic believes going to the core of the five most active volcanoes is just the first step. In future this technology can be developed as a clean, safe and fast alternative to trans- continental commercial aviation. By taking the heat from molten lava Virgin Volcanic plans to develop a totally renewable energy source to power the VVS1.

Las Vegas Nevada, showing street view of Hooters with terrain view of map below.

Google maps has officially launched support for 8-bit gaming systems, like your old Nintendo systems you have in the closet.  You can try the 8 bit version of yourself at Google 8-bit Maps

And here’s an introduction video that Google put together explaining the new NES / Nintendo Google system