Laser Center in Hungary

"We are supporting it, and giving the needed government guarantees." - said Gordon Bajnai on Saturday (2009.09.26) about ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure), which may be built at Szeged, Hungary.
The same time, Hungarian government plans to increase R&D money by more than 5% next year.
"We cannot allow the crisis to live up our future." - said Bajnai, Hungaries prime minister.

Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers

http://spacefellowship.com/2009/09/23/radar-map-of-buried-mars-layers-matches-climate-cycles/ Whats laser to Earth, is radar to Mars.

Google maps for indoors

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Charting-the-Final-FrontierGoogle-Maps-for-Indoors/

GPS devices to monitor snowfall

A strange feeling is getting stronger and stronger in me: we are able to do anything, we already have the devices, it is only a question of creativity, manpower (engineers power of course), and time. We are just able to do anything.
Way back I read some news about earthquake detecting hard disks, and now this:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/929/2

Data sources

A few geographic datasources on the net worth checking:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
http://www.geocommons.com/

Detailed photo of a 300 ft tall tree

"...what the photographer ended up doing was building a custom rig containing 3 cameras, each one taking a slightly different shot: one to the left, one to the right, and one on the dead center. The rig was mounted to a gyroscope, and then the cameras took a series of pictures as the rig was lowered to the ground.

The end result: a vertical panorama comprised of 84 pictures, all stitched together to create one of the most complete pictures of a redwood tree we’ve ever seen."

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/30/how-to-photograph-a-300-ft-tall-tree-without-getting-a-splinter/

Night sky, milky way

http://www.sergebrunier.com/gallerie/pleinciel/360.swf