Doing a round of the Firefox Add-Ons yesterday, I found PicLens and while it has very limited functionality, I was thoroughly impressed with what the guys at Cooliris have done. It renders images in beautiful 3D without a hint of a performance drop, and that is what impressed me the most. Searching Google Images is a completely different experience now. Yeah.

I think it’s very promising, but very underused at this stage. Firstly, the UI is excellent: if Cooliris can somehow implement it into Firefox’s default UI – that would be a crazy awesome browsing experience, especially since the fancy looks didn’t take a long time to load or give a performance drop.

And then in PicLens itself, it would be great if we could save the images directly from the PicLens view, though the most important feature would be to code PicLens so as to identify images on any web page and view them – right now, PicLens is limited to some social networking sites, image sharing sites and image searches (the number of sites is supposedly growing).

I think Cooliris is really cool and can be really big if they look into this more. PicLens might just change the way we look at the Internet.