In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. Kleinezeitung reports about two online alibi agencies a french one alibila.com and a swiss one alibi-beton.com. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. (more…)
Meet Trackstick! It’s one more funny GPS device with a very little range of features. It looks like usb memory stick and has almost the same size. Trackstick is desiged to be used with Google-Earth. The only thing it can do is just to write down a GPS track and save it as gpx file which can be later watched in Google Earth environment on your computer. So what? (more…)
The first bells are already tolling! The time of mobile ad-hoc networks is coming. The Austrian online newspaper Kleine Zeitung reports about a Swedish compony TerraNet that currently works hard on practical realisation of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). Ericsson has invested already about 4 mio Euros in this project. Mesh networks are a subtype of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks that (more…)
The potential of USB usage ranges much beyond memorry sticks, hard drives, keyboards, joysticks etc. The guys at Usb.brando.com.hk show another perspective and explore new ways of using USB facilities. How do you like their drink fridge? 
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The task I’m currently work on is to increase the accuracy of GPS data. More concretely speaking I’m looking for approaches that would help to filter out the imprecise coordinates. It’s a well known problem that even if you don’t move, each second you get GPS coordinates from your reciever that deviate at up to 15 m. (GPS signal is quite good) from your current location. Thus such a simple task as to calculate the total distance that the user passed gets to a great challenge. (more…)
Golem reports today that one of the largest German shopping chains Karstadt is going completely to change over to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, if you never heard of RFID, shame on you! wikipedia article for you) in the not too distant future. Beginning from the 10-th of September 2007, RFIF technology is already used in the Karstadt store in the center of Düsseldorf. (more…)
Once Leonardo da Vinci was asked how he created such wonderful sculptures. And he said something like: “I just take a stone and cut off all that is unnecessary.” MicroTracker is an elegant device that combines GPS and GPRS and serves only one simple purpose, it sends the current device position. A splendid hardware that inspires developers to think out various application possibilities. (more…)