Microsoft's Multi-Touch Sphere "Photo Globe"

I just had to post about this, even though this news has been rapidly circulating around the blogSPHERE.

The sphere could support an interactive travel planning/travel memory application.

Imagine if you were on a cruise ship, and uploaded your photos to the globe, and voila, they'd show up on the sphere in your mother's living room! Geo-tagged, cross-referenced, synched with your 2.0 apps, and linked to your vacation video-clips you previously uploaded to YouTube.