Today, first-class observation cars with panoramic windows let leaf-peeping tourists zoom through the hill country in one day.
France, Japan, Spain, Germany, all have trains that zoom through the countryside at speeds up to 217mph (350kph).
The concept software was developed by a French outfit known as Stonetrip, and also allows users to zoom and pan through the pages.
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Chill with the howler monkeys and exotic butterflies while ziplining through the rainforest trees, or zoom down a river on a white-water raft.
Prof Wedeen used visualisation software that enabled him to fly around and through these pathways - even to zoom in to see intricate details.
You can keep swiping through your images or even pinch to zoom out and view all your images in a filmstrip view.
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Scroll with two fingers, pinch to zoom in and out of images, swipe to flip through pages or photos.
The new model captures Full HD AVCHD video clips as well as 16.2 megapixel still images through its innovative and exceptionally thin 5x optical folded zoom lens.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to test out Sony's new 16-50mm power zoom lens, but we did put the NEX-6 through its paces using the familiar 18-55mm kit glass that came with our NEX-C3.
When viewing web pages and working through our Gmail inbox, we often felt the need to zoom in, as default text size seemed dwarfed by the laptop's ample screen real estate.
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With the swipe of a finger, users can scroll through images and use a pinching motion with two fingers to zoom in or out on displayed images, switching between thumbnail and full screen views.
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