Welcome to beautiful, sunny Hawaii!

Now that we're pretending you're here, lets pretend that you're here to sample our world-renowned Kona Coffee in one of Kona, Hawaii's many coffee shops.

It's a good thing you brought your laptop with you because that's all you'll need to jump over to http://maps.google.com/ and locate the coffee shops closest to your hotel – complete with phone numbers, physical address, websites (when available), and even directions to and from the hotel you're pretending to stay at.

And just because you can, you'll bring up a satellite view of the coffee shop once you've found the one that's right for you.

Sound futuristic? It is. Yet, I just did all that 5 minutes ago (no pretending!). Here's the video to prove it. (9 MB Flash, Broad band recommended.)

Here's a filmstrip of the video if you can't watch it yourself...

Wow, how'd they do that?!

The technology demonstrated in the video showcases two of Google's new applications – the newly released-into-beta Google Maps, and Google's recent acquisition Keyhole. The two programs are connected by a Firefox-only plugin created by an enterprising user of the Keyhole software, and thus is only acce...