Gadgetory

ever wondered how Google gets street view images inside hard-to-reach places well it's not a robot or really small car it's actually human power and in this case by a sink ball-based running group call just run lah who will be putting on the Google tracker to get pictures inside Singapore's parks and running trails now volunteers from the group such as ultra marathoner avatar Singh will be donning the 20 kg or 40 pounds tracker to walk yes walk their way through Singapore's tourist attractions as well as nature spaces that's because Google doesn't want them running as you'll be too fast for photo taking each striker comes with 15 cameras a computer located at the bottom and takes a picture every 2.5 seconds so it doesn't matter if you're mid stepped as the algorithms will adjust and fix the image accordingly I put on the tracker myself to try it out and it turns out it's not as easy as help Aventura made it look the trigger wobbles as you walk and going up and down stairs means you have to be mindful of the balance of the rig be too far forward or backwards and you may find myself falling down now it's heavy but with a bit of care anyone can use it even my friend here the rig weighs half as much as her and with that I'm off to get some more exercise I'm aloysius low for CNET in Singapore