Friday, January 12, 2007

Think Global

(Or You Can Let Your GPS Think For You)

Wouldn’t you like your GPS to be able to tell you if there’s a traffic snarl up the highway? According to Ken Sander at SciFi.com, it’s on the cards. ``Okay, we all know about GPS,’’ he writes. ``but here’s a new twist - internet GPS. That’s right, all of Dash’s GPSes are connected to the Net, so if a car with a Dash GPS five miles ahead of you slows down, you know there might be a traffic problem ….. Another first is that it uses Yahoo Local, so Dash knows where you are and can tell you where the cheapest gas is, or all the movies that are playing in your neighbourhood.’’

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