It’s all about the gigapixels

It’s a near-truism that we’ve almost run out of new things to invent. Pretty much every new technology is just a better, quicker, smaller or more colourful version of the last one (the masters of which are undoubtedly Apple). And so we come to next evolution of online (and offline) photos – the ‘gigapixel’. Which is basically French for ‘fucking high resolution’.

It’s been around for a while and image sizes are obviously enormous, so you need Speedy Gonzalez broadband to use it. I’m sure some practical applications will naturally follow, but for the moment, check out four cool examples at Gigapixel Photography.