My virtual world is continuing to take me on cultural trips. 

As many of you may know, the wonders of Google’s Street View technology, are now allowing us to virtually visit cultural institutions around the world. Just look at the Eiffel Tower in the above video.

Breaking news. According to tech site Engadget, Google is working with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Google engineers used drones, tripod and “trolley” cameras to create a 360-degree view of the Guggenheim galleries.

Honestly, some of you may think this is another indication that we will never get away from our laptops and hand held devices. 

Au contraire. I think this will encourage us to see what’s going on behind the walls of some of the best museums, monuments, and cultural centers around the globe. A relaxing virtual tour can inspire us to see the real thing. I’m feeling energized already.

 This is some find.

The Dreamscope app allows you to turn your photos into amazing paintings! Go from photo to art in just one tap.

  
I visited my radiology  group in NYC this week because I received a letter from them explaining that they totally updated their machinery with the state of the art, 3-D mammography units, also known as 3-D tomosynthesis. 

The letter said, “Instead of imaging the breast as a whole, 3-D mammography acquires multiple very thin slices throughout your breast in a matter of seconds. As with CAT scans and MRI’s, the thin slices prevent the adjacent tissue from overlapping one another. Studies have shown that 3-D mammography is 30 per cent more accurate in finding breast cancer than 2-D exams, and that it also greatly reduces the number of false positive readings. 

“The FDA requires that 3-D mammography be performed in conjunction with standard 2-D mammography, which makes sense since we need to compare the current study with your prior 2-D images. However, in order to keep the radiation dose down to the low level that it has always been, we have added a very exciting and important technology. It’s called “C-View,” and it synthesizes 2-D images from the 3-D ones, thereby eliminating the need to take a second mammogram.”

I was due for a mammography exam so I decided to try the new 3-D machine. I am pleased to report that you really can’t tell the difference when you take the exam, but the results are quite different. I could really see many more details in the 3-D film. My radiologist showed me how she carefully compares the images of 3-D to 2-D. I was quite impressed. 

I wanted to share this information with you because you should be made aware of all of your options. Every radiology office is updating their machines. Make sure you are getting the very best. 

 
Image: Blewit 

There may be a new trend in crowdsourcing. The digital sites picked up on this over the last few days. Mashable, one of the most famous of them all, did a lead post on how Indiegogo was the platform of choice to raise money for a new men’s sex toy by Blewit. 

If you go to Indiegogo, you will see that Blewit raised $19,000 of their $20,000 goal much faster then anyone could have imagined. I guess sex toys are still more appealing than many other product   categories. No surprise. I know you are dying to see what this sex toy is all about. Click here.

Image: The Verge

If you ever use a helicopter, you will want to know about Uber and Airbus. They have a new trial helicopter service.

First stop, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place this month. Uber will offer car service rides to and from the helipad. More locations coming soon if this one works out.

Uber has been down this road before. The company offered $3,000 helicopter rides from Manhattan to the Hamptons. 

Read more about this development in The Verge.