John Knight is the tinkerer behind the project, which he calls the Electromagnetic Geospacial Globe and Remote View with Obligatory Goggles, using RFID tags and Touchatag reader to control Google Earth. Knight is presenting the set at today’s Maker Faire Detroit, but you can see a video of it in action here.
Sure it looks a little slow to respond now, but give it a break, it runs on steam. [Flickr via Make]