People Hopper from Google Labs

People Hopper is a new application for Orkut that lets you take your profile image and ‘morph’ it into your friend’s–using publicly available images from other Orkut users along the way. It is a fun app that also allows you to make new connections–since the images that show in your Hopper all come from people who have chosen to make their profiles public, you can click through to learn more about them and reach out to them. You can also morph one friend into another. No computer graphics are used to generate the path.

To be able to use People Hopper, one needs to have an Orkut account. If you don’t already have one, create a new account here. Then, you can add the gadget by clicking on “add apps” under the “more” menu.