If you're at all interested in cutting edge design and technology, and how it's being combined take a good look at the TED website. It has a wealth of interesting videos for your viewing pleasure.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Yesterday's Deep Zoom blog post has proved popular so here's a video of Photosynth - DeepZoom's big brother - in action on the TED website. It's worth taking a look and you don't need the Silverlight 2 beta plugin to see that the fuss is about. Photosynth offers an exciting new way of viewing your images and photos and can even project them into three dimensional space. The images here don't do it justice, you need to see it moving.

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.

- TED

It's fast, dynamic and you can experience it on the Live Labs website.

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