Microsoft Photosynth is fantastically cool tech …

… From Microsoft Live Labs that takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.

You can then navigate that space as though in a virtual world, looking at the pictures along the way.

Words and screenshots simply can’t convey how it works. See it for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnk6iTp2bkE