One of Simon’s ear­lier posts reminded me to pick up the lat­est issue of Technology Review. In it, there’s a piece on two new image-handling tech­nolo­gies -- Photosynth and Seadragon -- both of which now fall under the Microsoft umbrella. Photosynth enables smooth, seam­less visual nav­i­ga­tion of high-resolution imagery, and Seadragon gen­er­ates 3-D com­pos­ites out of ordi­nary two-dimensional pho­tographs. Yeah, I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s true. You should just watch the 7-minute demo.