I spent some time this afternoon watching the video of yesterday’s “Google Factory Tour“, a day of Google talking about their projects to the press. It is pretty long, and both Windows Media Player and Real Player were being tempermental so I haven’t watched the whole thing.

The picture above is of a robotic page turner that an intern created. According to the presenter, they are NOT using it for their digitization project. Still sounds like a pretty cool internship. Sure beats making copies and coffee.

Something else exciting is that according to this post on O’Reilly Radar, a publically accessible API may be made available for Google Maps in the future.