Use 'CuteTown' to Give Your Town the Sim City Treatment

What happens when an app developer marries Sim City with Google Maps? CuteTown is born!

CuteTown is a stylized 4-D city map, of a real place, with time serving as the fourth dimension. You can use the forthcoming CuteTown app to create a new map or edit an existing map.

Supposedly, users don't need any special knowledge of 3-D modeling to make an incredibly detailed CuteTown map, down to your house, your neighbor's house and the lawn in between.

Check out the full Stanford University CuteMap here.

Amazing 'Hexacopter' Lets Photography Go Airborne

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Your dreams of creating amazing aerial photography are about to become a reality.

Thanks to one gadget-loving couple, your DSLR may be taking flight sometime soon. Meet the eye3 hexacopter, a six-armed carbon-fiber UAV that was created to take your camera airborne. It uses Google Maps and open-source code to navigate, and it's modular for simple repairs after unintentional crash-landings. 

The eye3 features three CPUs and a 350-watt motor on each arm. Surprisingly, it can carry a payload of 5 to 10 pounds, plenty of power for your DSLR to take to the air.

Check out some sample shots on engadget's video, here.