Underwater Street View

Brooklyn Nets' high-tech arena, the new Myspace, Google Field Trip and more in our look at the web this week

While their API may have been dropped from iOS 6, Google’s mapping team is continuing to innovate with new features. This week, the company introduced a new Street View experience that lets couch surfers explore the Great Barrier Reef. Schools of fish, tortoises and miles of choral shine in the panoramic images.

The Water We Eat

Brooklyn Nets' high-tech arena, the new Myspace, Google Field Trip and more in our look at the web this week

Angela Morelli’s sleek, interactive infographic breaks down the notion of “virtual water,” or the water needed to produce goods we use and food we eat. By scrolling down the screen, the infographic brings up data and demonstrative visuals, all of which are used to give advice on how to use less of the key resource. The conclusion? Eat less meat.

An Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday Things

Brooklyn Nets' high-tech arena, the new Myspace, Google Field Trip and more in our look at the web this week

Getting creative with contour data, designer Dennis P. Paul presents an electronic system that can make music out of anything. Random materials are skewered to a teched-out rotisserie, and the spinning objects are then read by a “precision rangefinding laser” that converts silhouettes into sounds.