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Garmin Rolls With The Punches Of Changing Navigation Game With Smartphone HUD...
Garmin built its empire on dedicated GPS devices, but those are obviously facing extinction in the face of smartphones that can replicate their function without requiring an expensive secondary...
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Equip Your Home Drone Build With Super-Accurate GPS Thanks To The Piksi On...
Most GPS is a relatively imprecise tool, honing in on your location to within around a few meters, but new Kickstarter project Piksi aims to provide accuracy within a single centimeter, via a new GPS...
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NSA Experimented With Cell Phone Location Tracking Program
The National Security Agency experimented with a cell phone location tracking program in 2010, but eventually shelved the idea. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, declassified the...
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POcode Gives Small Businesses An Easy Alternative To GPS
One of the many joys of exploring a city like Taipei is its maze of lanes and alleyways, which are lined with small shops, incense-filled temples and leafy parks. The downside is wrangling with...
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TomTom Cardio GPS Watch Review: Put Your Heart Rate In The Driver’s Seat
I like running, perhaps to a fault, if only because while running you basically can’t pay attention to anything else once you get up to speed so long as you’re doing it right. So basically I like it...
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Roger Easton, Father Of GPS, Dies At 93
Roger Lee Easton, Sr., the father of GPS and pioneer of modern day navigation, died May 8 at his New Hampshire home, according to BusinessWire. After attending Middlebury College and the University of...
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This Mechanical Watch Has A Magic Button That Sets It By GPS
If there’s a single problem with mechanical watches its that they’re often considered inaccurate. A collection of gears and springs, no matter how carefully put together, will always lose a little...
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Swift Navigation Raises $2.6 Million For Its Ultra-Precise GPS System
Swift Navigation has developed centimeter-accurate GPS technology that can be used for a much wider range of applications. The company has developed a GPS module that comes at a fraction of a cost of...
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Android Wear Update Adds Offline Music, Bluetooth Headphone And GPS Support
Android Wear is getting its first big update, with features that make smartwatches using Google’s wearable operating system more standalone devices, including music syncing and GPS location support....
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‘Fitbit For Dogs’ Maker Whistle Acquires Tagg Pet Tracker And Raises $15M
Wearables for pets used to be a punchline, but now it’s a legitimate business with multiple players active in the space. Said space did just get a bit smaller today, as Whistle, the startup which...
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TripAdvisor Buys ZeTrip And Its Personal Travel Journal App Rove
TripAdvisor, the travel planning and booking business, today announced the acquisition of a startup that it hopes will help build out its relationship with customers during and after their travels: it...
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The Fitbit Charge HR Brings Back The Basics
As a longtime lover of all things Fitbit, I’ve missed the good old days. The bright, readable displays and the little tidbits like a slowly growing flower to indicate progress were a real joy back in...
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Wi-Fi And Gestures Could Soon Help Android Wear Match Some Apple Watch...
Android Wear is reportedly getting some updates that will help it mirror or offer alternatives to some of the big wearable advantages Apple has made available on the new Apple Watch, including input...
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3D Robotics Launches DroneKit, Its API For Building Drone Apps
3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of DroneKit, its open-source API for writing drone apps. Because 3D Robotics has always taken a platform approach,...
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Garmin’s New VIRB Action Cameras Capture Data From Your Experiences
Garmin’s VIRB line of action cameras got a big refresh this morning with the introduction of the new X and XE models, which collect data from a variety of sensors to create graphical overlays to show...
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DJI Announces A New, Easy-To-Use Camera Drone, The Phantom 3 Standard
DJI has just announced a new camera drone, the Phantom 3 Standard, an oddly-named quadcopter that features a built-in HD video camera, 25 minutes of flight time on one charge, and a special follow...
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Garmin Announces The Forerunner 25, A Jolly And Inexpensive Workout Watch
Smartwatch, schmartwatch – you gotta get you a Garmin! The new Forerunner 25 is a low-cost workout watch that comes in multiple jolly colors and can register your heart rate, speed, distance, and...
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Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform
Mojio, a connected car platform based around a small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car’s OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The new Mojio Drive...
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Google Maps Gets Offline Navigation And Search
It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve left the garage, because you’re offline. You probably pull off to...
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New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS
This morning, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS). This $131 million satellite...
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