GPS drawing
Global Positioning System receivers can determine your position on the surface of the Earth. You can then use this data to do some pretty cool things.
Tracks of a journey can automatically be recorded into the GPS receiver and downloaded as an electronic "drawing".
The winner of last week’s coolest gadget competition is the Children’s GPS Tracking Watch.
A simple solution to keeping track of your child should they go missing with this fairly standard looking children’s digital watch that is actually equipped with a GPS tracking system, which will also alert you if the watch is removed by a [...]
From coolest-gadgets.com
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- GPS tracking system unveiled for Alzheimer's patients (computerworld.com)
- There Shouldn't Be A GPS Tracking System In My Lingerie (gizmodo.com)
- Keruve 2010 GPS tracking system for Alzheimer patients (ubergizmo.com)
Filed under: GearGPS systems are everywhere these days, thanks largely in part due to ubiquidous iPhones and Blackberries. The technology, proper, isn't very cumbersome either -- one can get a GPS chip small enough to uplink into a laptop computer or even to tie to a dog. That's what Jeremy Wood did in the below video, creating a virtual map of two dogs running around a park in Oxford.
Me and You from Jeremy Wood on Vimeo.
It's all part of his...
From gadling.com
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- Market Wire - CIC Launches Global Positioning Strategy Project for Canada (findarticles.com)
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Mike LaBella, The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.The Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Massachusett
Nov. 13--HAVERHILL -- City Councilor David Hall said morale among the city's firefighters was already poor, but the installation of GPS devices in firetrucks has made the situation worse.
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Children all too often can wander off while their parent are distracted, not understanding the terror that causes. Now it is possible to use a child tracking device, a sort of GPS tracking for children that parents can use in emergencies to locate their lost child.
From buzzle.com
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- GPS tracking device, LittleBuddy or Big Brother (cbs12.com)
- GPS Tracking Device for Your Children Is This a Good Idea or Not? (bloggernews.net)
This weekend I was out doing errands for a few hours, and it turned out I forgot my cell phone. It was fantastic! My kids couldn't bug me every eight minutes with "Where are you, when are you coming home, and can you please get to the store for 'fill in the blank?' "
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