We’re told all the time that we’re living in a digital age and yet we’re surrounded by out of date, clunky systems. In a new series, Electricpig will be looking at the worst offenders to our digital sensibilities. First up: airports.
How often have you lost your ticket; been without Wi-fi and charging points while you wait for your delayed flight; hauled your luggage off and on three shuttle buses just to get to the check-in desk, and then been faced with in flight entertainment screens that look like they’re borrowed from the Short Circuit set? The answer? Too often. Read on for what we’d do to fix airports.
At a demo of the Motorola Xoom (with Google showing off the latest build of Android Honeycomb 3.0 on the Xoom too) we heard that not only does the Xoom have all the shiny new UIs and knick knacks of Android Honeycomb 3.0, it’s also got a barometer. This won’t just tell you the weather though, it also effectively cranks the GPS skills of the Motorola Xoom up a notch.
Grab the best Android GPS apps on the Market and no longer will you have to ask yourself, where are you going? What will you find there? Instead, your beloved Google phone will do all the work for you – see how with our Best Android GPS Top 5 list to the right of the full post.
Microsoft maps could soon include that most ingenious of travel smarts – cabbie’s knowledge. Microsoft researchers in Beijing are mining taxi driver smarts to create better driving directions. The researchers have analysed GPS data from 33,000 cabs in the city to find more efficient routes. “These factors are very subtle and difficult to incorporate into existing routing engines,” says Yu Zheng of Microsoft Research Asia. If his research pays off, we could see Bing Maps with a built-in London cabbie algorithm…
Out TBC | £TBC | Microsoft (via MIT Technology Review)
Worry about dropping your iPhone 4 in the street? Luke Geissbuhler and his son (aka the Brooklyn Space Program) launched his into space with an HD video camera to snatch some absolutely stunning pictures of Earth from outside the atmosphere. What’s more, the iPhone 4 returned to terra firma just fine. Click through to see the iPhone space project caught on video…
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Google has launched Google Navigation: walking today, with tweaks specifically designed to appeal to pedestrians, ramblers and those too boozed up to use Google Navigation in their car.
Google said it has found that while people used turn by turn navigation whilst driving, they also use the service whilst walking. To fill the gap in its service, it’s launched turn by turn navigation that’s been tweaked for walkers.
Start your engines: we’ve got the best TomTom satnav models rounded up for you right here, so if you’re after a new GPS for your motor, you owe it to yourself to read on and check out the shortlist, to the right of the full post.
