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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Tags: GPS, internal positioning system, IPS, Meijer, Point Inside 
1 Comment »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 »
