The New York City Health Department has made a new smartphone application, NYC Condom Finder, freely available to the public this week. The app, which works on iPhones and Androids, uses the GPS capability in those mobile devices to locate any of the city’s 1,000 condom distribution centers.
Though GPS devices are best known for helping folks find their way during road trips and while visiting new cities, there are, unfortunately, other less wholesome applications of GPS technologies. One such use that is getting increasing publicity in recent days is the utilization of GPS to help make operations in the illegal meth industry [...]
Most motor vehicles these days either come equipped or are used with GPS navigation systems. They come in handy in many situations, such as getting to an unfamiliar destination or finding a quicker route. The problem, however, with most GPS navigation systems is that they don’t provide analysis regarding problem [traffic] areas, like which routes are undesirable at [...]
From early 1993 to early 2002, the animated characters of Mike Judge ruled the cartoon roost at MTV. It may have started out as a love affair with those headbanging idiots Beavis and Butt-head, but it was Daria Morgandorffer, the sardonic Lawndale High School student who often stole the show with her witty asides. Though [...]
The Windows Phone 7 Family made a conspicuous debut earlier this month with several sleek models ready to take the leap with consumers to LTE and WiMax along with carriers hungry to provide next generation of wireless broadband technology. The one department they didn't wow, however, was in their GPS navigation capability. Whereas Android phones [...]
It used to be that truckers were the hippest cats on the road. In the 1970's kids fantasized about hauling loads across the country on the open highway in a great big convoy, while communicating with other 18-wheel wonders via CB radio using catchphrases like "10-4, good buddy" and "catch you on the flip flop." [...]
In 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of a new passage to Asia, he took to the high seas with his sparkling sense of direction and landed –after a long journey– in the Caribbean. Pretty sure, he had reached India, he promptly claimed the land for Spain, called the natives "Indians" and [...]
It’s a reasonable expectation that ambulance drivers know the areas they cover like the back of their hand. The certain combination of aggressive driving and a near flawless knowledge of shortcuts can often be the difference in an emergency situation where the outcome is life or death. Regardless of the brain’s ability to serve as [...]
When Google announced their GPS app back in October of 2009, the stock of many a maker of GPS-based navigational systems –including Garmin–went ice cold at the prospect of losing a big chunk of customers in the smartphone-wielding demographic. We wouldn’t say Garmin couldn’t give their product away though; Car manufacturers such as Nissan tossed [...]
Over the past few years, the use of GPS technology has been very effective in the world of law enforcement, but only recently has it been applied to fire fighting as well. Slowly but surely, more and more fire departments are adopting these GPS systems as part of their fire fighting gear on account [...]
