The usefulness of GPS is indisputable. From GPS enable child tracking devices to GPS data aggregation services like Google Maps’ real-time traffic reports, the technology has spawned several location based industries that are changing society. An intentional limitation of the GPS system to which consumers have access is its resolution, which is limited to [...]
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No Comments »Distracted driving is reaching epidemic proportions as the flood of electronic gadgets we supplement our lives with become increasingly portable and connected. Between talking, texting, tuning satellite radio receivers, and entering GPS navigation instructions, drivers face ever-increasing odds of causing or being involved in automobile accidents. While products and services do exist to [...]
In honor of today’s iPhone 4 release (already covered ad nauseum elsewhere), we’re going to highlight a cell phone that’s not quite as polished, feature-full, or smart as the iPhone 4, but still serves and important purpose. The GPS Tracker Phone For Kids is an overly simplified cell phone import capable of dialing up to [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Phones Tags: alert, cell phone, GPS, Real Time Tracking, spy, texting No Comments »Texas Instruments today announced its WiLink 7.0 chip, thus continuing the miniturization and convergence of mobile devices. The WiLink 7.0 chip, the “industry’s first offering to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive, and Bluetooth technologies” is up to half the size of earlier integrated wireless radio solutions. And because it’s a single chip [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Phones, Wireless Tags: Bluetooth, FM, GPS, single chip, Texas Instruments, WiFi, WiLink 7.0, wireless No Comments »There’s certainly no shortage of GPS enabled devices these days. Cameras use GPS to geotag pictures, worried parents use GPS to track their kids, and increasingly, smartphones use GPS to aid in personal navigation. While the latter of these examples may ultimately foil the presently thriving personal navigation device industry, reducing it to yet another [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Reviews, Satellite and HD Radio Tags: Cydle T43H, GPS, HD Radio, review, traffic 6 Comments »Fortunately for most people reading this, GPS child tracking technology didn’t exist when we were kids. For generations, parents just had to suffer through “wondering child syndrome” and teenagers breaking curfew. Although devices such as the Amber Alert GPS 2G and Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker offer today’s parents piece of mind, they’re in no [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS Tags: Amber Alert, GPS, Little Buddy, Pikavu, tracking 3 Comments »Given the recent push to make talking and texting on cell phones while driving illegal, it seems like law enforcement is being set up for a fool’s errand. Trying to quell cell phone use while driving will be like trying to stop people from listening to the radio. Even on my typical daily commute, I [...]
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