8 cool Google Labs projects spared the axe

After Google announced in July that Google Labs would be closing, several experimental products under development were killed, including ones that had been hyped during their original launch: Aardvark, Fast Flip, and Google Notebook.

But Google has spared others (for now) from the executioner's axe, and these have been "graduated" into their own sites or are in the process of being spun off. Here are the ones that we think are worthy of your attention.