Posts Tagged ‘GPS’

NextGen: GPS Enabled Navigation Devices Clear The Skies For Safer Flying

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 23:51 By Anna

Travelling by air isn’t that very difficult because all you have to do is buy a ticket and be at the airport on time. The stress upon the pilots and the flight controller, on the other hand, is nearly toxic. To prevent colliding with other planes, and birds, in the air, pilots have to rely [...]

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Japanese Helmet Pulls Your Ears to Help Navigate

Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:59 By Radhika

It looks weird and functions peculiarly too. But a helmet shaped like that of a bicycle and looks more like a robotic crab is grabbing eyeballs. The Japanese gadget when worn, pulls your right ear when you should move right and left ear when you must move left.
In effect, it shows you direction without you [...]

A Hi-Tech Sea Rescue For Those Stranded At Sea

Friday, October 23, 2009 14:25 By Rajeev Saxena

Designers Sheng Zhe Feng and Yu Chi Huang have launched an all new sea safety ring that has the capability to keep its occupant alive till the time the rescue arrives. In any sea related tragedy  casualties are due to a cooling phenomenon called, Hypothermia and also due to the lack of drinking water and [...]

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TechCrunch50: Chyngle, Demopit Winner Creates an Awesome Facility for Stadiums

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 19:52 By Robert

Chyngle is one of Demopit winners at TechCrunch50 2009. Just like its snazzy name suggests, Chyngle allows you to find out your location and discover services and people nearby while you are in a stadium (say you are watching a football match in a football stadium) as its branded apps use GPS. This is really [...]

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Life Recorder as infringement of privacy? C’mon, you’ve been revealing a lot on Facebook and Twitter already

Monday, September 7, 2009 23:34 By GSerrano

Are you willing to be a walking human recorder? If you are, then there’s a device that’s coming up for you. Life recorders are in the offing. There’s at least one start-up that has been fine tuning such a device for more than a year now. The fulfillment of your ambition to record your history [...]

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TomTom: An Intelligent Navigation System For Apple iPhone & iPhone 3GS

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:48 By Rajeev Saxena

One of the big hitters in the field of on-the-go navigation, TomTom, a Dutch manufacturer, specializing in the field of automotive navigation systems, has released an application designed for Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, that provides the users with driving instructions and turn their mobile phone devices into GPS navigation systems.
The navigation device was [...]

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Palm Pre: your personal spy

Sunday, August 16, 2009 22:42 By NARUTO

Nobody saw that coming: while he thoroughly studied the operation of WebOS, the operating system based on Linux used in Palm Pre, Joey Hess noticed that the smartphone collects and it sends to Palm periodically a package containing several information.
Without the user’s consent.
The reports sent by the apparel to the manufacturer include a complete list [...]

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A Shift from Styling Cars to Redefining them!

Monday, July 13, 2009 18:18 By Ramya

Style, design and speed were the obsessions of car designers of yester years; the latest vogue seems futuristic and fictional- a driverless car! Mike and Maaike, an industrial design firm from San Francisco that was behind the creation of the Google Phone, has now created the ‘ATNMBL’ read as autonomobile. This self-directed seven-seated four-wheeler is [...]

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Outsmarting the authorities: Software to alert you of speed traps

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 22:45 By Neo

Traffic in major cities is something that is proving to be a headache both to authorities and to drivers who have to constantly weave through a maze. In certain states, you have the speed trap and signal cameras that ensure that the moment you step out of line and exceed the speed limit of jump [...]

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Nokia To Evolve GPS: Introducing, The All New ‘Indoor GPS’

Sunday, June 21, 2009 19:54 By Rajeev Saxena

One of the foremost cellular phone makers in the world, Nokia, seems to be taking a different approach in terms of GPS technology together. Nokia has announced that  it would be experimenting with an ‘indoor GPS system’. GPS or Global Positioning System isn’t anything new that anyone would be excited about. However, Nokia has decided [...]

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