Next BIG toy I want.

So I found the next dream toy I want. Its called the Gigapan Epic System. Basically its a robotically controled camera station that takes a series of high resolution images and stitches them together in a monstrous panorama that you can pan and zoom around in to amazing detail. It utilizes smaller point and shoot cameras to do this with amazing results. You need to zoom in as much as possible to create the best quality images for the best results when navigating the panorama.

Here are a few of my favorites panoramas:

Trunk Bay, US Virgin Islands
Manhattan Beach pier, North side, View South Dec 29, 2008
Manhattan Beach Pier
Fish Pond near Anaeho'omalu Beach, Big Island, Hawaii

Looks like a simple process to do freehand until you try to stitch all of those photos in Photoshop and it crashes. Ouch. Have to give it a shot though.