The Times of London's "TimesOnline" reports that their story on Carnegie Mellon University's Gigapan CameraSystem was the most widely read among the top 50 technology stories theycovered in 2008.

TheGigaPan story beat out articles on the large hadron collider, invisibilitydevices, and the Indian Space Agency's newly developed rival to Google Earth.

TheGigapan Camera System is a low-cost robotic device that enables any digitalcamera to shoot breathtaking, multi-billion pixel panoramas that can benavigated in depth through the Internet. It was developed by Associate RoboticsProfessor Illah Nourbakhsh and Randy Sargent, a project scientist at CarnegieMellon's Silicon Valley Campus in collaboration with scientists at NASA's AmesResearch Center. The system is currently in beta tests for commercial release.For more information, see www.gigapan.org.