Pimp your user experience in 3 dimensions with PicLens

I hate feeling like I’ve been living in a cave, especially when I’ve in fact been religiously working through my Google Reader list on a daily basis…  Somehow PicLens has snuck under my radar (for the last 6+ months!) and just today my boss called me over with a ‘You have to see this’ sort of tone which you’re never sure is good or bad until you’ve walked the green mile to look at his screen.  Thankfully what he showed me was a full-screen quasi-3-dimensional image/video browser implemented as a Firefox addon, and I was very impressed!

It seems to me that it’s 99% eye candy, but the 1% usability could grow exponentially if it gains traction with heavy web-surfers and webmasters start PicLens-enabling their own resource portals.  I’m already reading up on the requirements and pondering the possibilities for a web services consumption I’m prototyping at the moment…  I’ve been trying to work out what the technology is behind the app, maybe someone else can enlighten me?  My first thought was Flex, but I’m not so sure now…  Other sites say native code, but I’d like to know more.

Could this be the coolest Firefox addon released so far? Definitely gets my vote!