Oh, the rabbit holes I fall into when I check out the latest Google Lab Experiments! They’ve long been these quirky little sites and tools that do cool or weird or mind-blowing stuff.

Over the years I’ve shared many of my favorites. Here are my latest Google Labs obsessions. This is a very small fraction of the capabilities you’ll find when you click this link.

Try On Clothes with Doppl

The other day I wrote about the new Google Try On feature, where AI applies the outfit of your choice in Google Shopping to your full-body photo. Yesterday Google released a stand-alone app called Doppl that lets you try on clothes you see in the wild.

I just downloaded it, and I can’t get it to generate everything. Either Google thinks I’m too fashion-clueless to help, or the app is not working.

Explore New Careers with Career Dreamer

My sister is about to retire from teaching, and she and I are forever discussing the ten billion new things she might do next. So I had to try out Career Dreamer, a tool that lets you add your experience, skills and interests to brainstorm new roles and paths.

Once you find a new career that inspires you, Google AI guides you further down the road with generated statements and new prompts for further research.

Google Video and Image Tools! Just — All of Them

I did some experiments with AI video-generation tools not long ago, sparked by Google’s release of Veo 3. In Google Labs, you can experiment with many AI image and video tools. Some are pretty limited if you don’t pay Google. Some make you sign up on a wait list. But all are worth a try if you want to see how far AI video generation has come.

Whisk: Image Prompting Made Easy(ish)

Tell me if this sounds familiar:

You have the perfect vision of what you want a text-to-image masterpiece to be. You write what you think is a great prompt. The first results are 100% the opposite of what you wanted. And you try again. More yuck. And again. 162 tries later, you sigh and just do a Google search and grab an image.

Whisk aims to help you create better images from the get-go with image-based prompting. Choose a subject and a scene and apply a style. The results are (probably) more along the lines of your vision.

Flow: Video Storytelling Tool

I’m not enough of a filmmaker to appreciate the magnificence of Flow. The concept is that the tool helps you create a longer film out of shorter AI animations, complete with scenes, consistent characters and storylines. It uses Google’s image and video tools, including Veo 3. The result is more than just the 5-10-second clips that I make with Veo. You can end up with a true AI film (is that an oxymoron?).

Make Your Own Alphabet with GenType

I love this tool! GenType lets you create a style to generate your own graphic alphabet. It’s hours of fun for the whole family.

I wrote about this last year when it first came out, and so many of you sent me pics of your adorable alphabets. Let’s see ’em!

Note: this morning GenType just would not work in the Chrome browser, but it was fine on Safari. Dang technology.