October 11, 2007 - 08.40 GMT Charmed Labs announces Gigapan, an ongoing partnership with Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group, and Google. In Gigapan, Giga stands for many, or billions of pixels, and pan as in panorama. One of the primary goals of Gigapan is to capture stunning panoramic images of our world using technology that is affordable to the ordinary consumer. It accomplishes this by precisely manipulating the camera's pan and tilt gaze with precision motors while taking many, possibly hundreds of pictures....More
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