News tagged with gps location


Device can track your stray pet

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For owners of lost pets, the frantic search for Fido does not always end happily. Now one company is betting that even in a recession, pet owners will pay $250 for some peace of mind.





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GPS Angel Warning Device

GPS Angel: Red Light and Speed Camera Warning System

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- The all new GPS Angel Red Light/Speed Camera warning system is designed to warn you of red lights and fixed speed cameras. It's completely road legal and easy to use, just simply place it ...


Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- A Nevada couple letting their SUV's navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road.


Canadian police consider GPS for people with Alzheimer's

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Police in Montreal are studying the possibility of offering GPS bracelets to people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, an official told AFP.


An Alzheimers patient at a psychiatric hospital

GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down "wandering" seniors suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.


The US Air Force has shot down fears that the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) is going to crash

GPS satellites not 'falling out of the sky': Air Force

Technology / Telecom

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

You can put those maps away. The US Air Force has shot down fears that the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) is going to crash.


TI Single-Chip Solution Drives GPS into Mainstream Mobile Phones

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Texas Instruments today announced a new single-chip device that is expected to drive GPS applications into mainstream mobile phones.


Satellite dishes in Beijing

China launches gps satellite: report

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

China launched a navigational satellite, the nation's space administration reported, the second in a series of up to 30 orbiters to comprise a global positioning network.


Researchers design rooms with sensors that help dependent people

Researchers design rooms with sensors that help dependent people

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers of the Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications of the University of Granada in Spain, led by José Carlos Segura Luna, are working on a project with researchers ...


Brazilian Alini dos Santos Silva, 28, points at the map of the three "favelas" she and a team of neighbours designed

Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.


Common GPS could help better track airline flights (AP)

Common GPS could help better track airline flights

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental ...



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