1 month ago
Greg Storey : "Featuring turn-by-turn guidance from K.I.T.T. and synthesizer lights that accompany the voice directions, this GPS makes fantasy a reality." - No Turbo button? Not impressed.
Eric Meyer : Mio Knight Rider GPS Portable Navigation Device - Cooooooool. [via Greg] [via]
Rod Begbie : Mio™ Knight Rider™ GPS Portable Navigation Device - Only surprising that it took this long to appear: "Features the voice of K.I.T.T. (William Daniels) providing turn-by-turn voice guidance" [via] #
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Linkorama : Great To See You. Just Not Around Here - If I’m frank, one of the enjoyable aspects of that small bar around the corner is that I’m not going to bump into you.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : The disruptive potential of GPS on the iPhone 3G - Either way, GPS makers will no doubt be coming to the same realization that those selling MP3 players are now experiencing, and that PDA makers have been already been forced to deal with. Convergence is a bitch.
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : GlaGPS, GlaDOS voice for the Garmin Nuvi - how about a JOSHUA voice pack next?
Rod Begbie : GLaGPS - Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System - Tweak your Garmin GPS to speak like Portal's GLaDOS. Be wary if it instructs you to stop for cake. [via] #
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Linkorama : How a G.P.S. Can Predict Group Behavio - Reality mining raises instant questions about privacy, especially when cellphone data is involved.
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5 month ago
joshua : Developing a vehicle tracker with the Telit GM862-GPS module
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5 month ago
joshua : The Biggest Drawing In The World - artist teams up with DHL to make a global-sized gps drawing
Andy Baio : Biggest Drawing in the World - using GPS-laden briefcase to draw a self-portrait 69,000 miles long [via]
Rod Begbie : Biggest Drawing in the World - An artist uses the planet as his canvas, sketching a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-tracking briefcase around the world. [via] #
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philgyford : Bristol - Real Time Information - Real-time information of buses' departure from bus stops, tracking buses fitted with GPS. Not the most beautifully implemented thing in the world but it looks like it works (eg, try postcode "BS1 5TR"). (via City of Sound)
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6 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : Open GPS Tracker
joshua : Open GPS Tracker - neat
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6 month ago
nelson : Dash GPS - GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Shoes with built-in GPS units that can broadcast your location! How awesome is that!? - Well unfortunately it's not that awesome, as it only seems to actually broadcast your location when you press a button, presumably as a consequence of being kidnapped or something. Fun though.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : WikiNear - A FireEagle/Wikipedia mashup
factoryjoe : wikinear.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wikipedia, fire eagle, location, Simon willison
deusx : wikinear.com - "wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."
philgyford : Wikinear.com - Awesome little app by Simon Willison that shows you places near you from Wikipedia, using Yahoo! Fire Eagle. Makes me want an iPhone.
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7 month ago
plasticbag : Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services! - We've just launched. I couldn't be more excited about this. 10,000 invitation codes are out in public right now and we're going to be announcing it formally on stage at ETech in an hour or so.
Simon Willison : Welcome to Fire Eagle! - Welcome to Fire Eagle!. It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.
Rod Begbie : Fire Eagle - Fire Eagle has launched -- a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It's really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly #
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deusx : Ultrafit: Tapping his way along the Appalachian Trail - "With the help of a voice-enabled GPS, Minneapolis attorney Mike Hanson, who is blind, is training for the hike of a lifetime." Seems inspiring, yet ill-fated.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Watching As You Shop - I twittered an interest in a heat map of how I live and Ian Thorston sent me this link of industrial solutions
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10 month ago
plasticbag : Soon you'll be able to get yourself a little iPhone plug-in GPS unit, which looks pretty cool. - Wonder what the software is like. Useful and good for Fire Eagle. Was interested in what was going to happen since the iPhone deformed the direction of smart phones (in a cool direction) in the US.
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Dash Express GPS Video and Deets: True Traffic Reporting and Custom Maps for $599 - I *really* like the look of this upcoming GPS -- it gathers the speeds of other users over time and warns you when there's slow traffic ahead, even on roads that SmartTraveller, etc. don't cover. Will have to check them out at CES. #
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joshua : Mologogo: The GPS phone tracking social network - for cell phones
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12 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : High ALtitude Object - Check out the gorgeous pictures and videos. Vertigotastic. ∞
joshua : Flight 2 - High ALtitude Object - another weather balloon camera. even GPS has problems at high altitudes?
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Otetsudai Networks - With Otetsudai Networks, if you are willing to work, you sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading on your phone and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for say... 3 hours to man a cash register or help wash dis
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12 month ago
deusx : Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times - "There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
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15 month ago
43folders : Introducing the Hipster GPS | King of the Impossible - "Using the pen, write your directions on a Post-it Note; Get in your car; Place your directions at the top edge of the windshield..."
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nelson : Glonass update - GPS network alternatives. I hadn't realized the European one was suspended after the DRM was broken.
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Bostonist: It's not TomTom, it's CurtCurt - Curt Schilling voice for TomTom SatNav systems. The samples given are splendidly awful. "Errors lose ball games. Wrong turns make you late. Turn around when possible." #
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