{"id":775,"date":"2015-12-05T00:41:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/usatodaycom-tiny-tech-company-awes-viewers\/"},"modified":"2015-12-05T00:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:41:42","slug":"usatodaycom-tiny-tech-company-awes-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/usatodaycom-tiny-tech-company-awes-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"USATODAY.com &#8211; Tiny tech company awes viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/techinnovations\/2003-03-20-earthviewer_x.htm'>USATODAY.com &#8211; Tiny tech company awes viewers<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Keyhole (Google Earth)<\/p>\n<p>But EarthViewer moves like a high-end videogame, repainting the screen at 60 frames per second.<\/p>\n<p>EarthViewer &ldquo;grew out of a tradition of technology for flight simulators,&rdquo; Hanke says.<\/p>\n<p>One of its breakthroughs is the ability to quickly access more than seven terabytes of data. One terabyte equals 16 days of continuously running DVD movies, or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime, according to IBM. EarthViewer&rsquo;s other feat is fusing that data into a realistic simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Keyhole, founded in 2001, is marketing mainly to businesses, which pay $599 to thousands of dollars a year for access. Takers include commercial real estate companies, city planners and engineering firms.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, videogame graphics company Nvidia partnered with Keyhole to create a consumer version of EarthViewer. After downloading EarthViewer software, the service costs $79 a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USATODAY.com &#8211; Tiny tech company awes viewers Keyhole (Google Earth) But EarthViewer moves like a high-end videogame, repainting the screen at 60 frames per second. EarthViewer &ldquo;grew out of a tradition of technology for flight simulators,&rdquo; Hanke says. One of its breakthroughs is the ability to quickly access more than seven terabytes of data. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}