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Japan Nearly Perfects GPS Tracking

by Evan Kessler on September 22, 2010

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One of the benefits to being one of the herd of mice marching along to the pied piper of GPS-enabled technology, is that you're always on somebody's grid should something bad happen. Though some may long to escape technology's grasp, the only real solution to that quandary is to toss your phone or hide in [...]

Japanese Inventors Create the Glasses of the Future

by Ronen Ijadi on August 12, 2010

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Engineers from Japan have invented a prototype device that places GPS navigation technology into a pair of glasses, which they call a “Wearable Personal Navigation System”. Created at the University of Electro-Communications’ Nakajima Laboratory and displayed in Tokyo at the Wireless Japan 2010 expo, these devices feature a battery powered microcomputer, as well as a [...]