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Google And The Death Of Getting Lost

BY Kit Eaton | 04-09-2012 | 6:11 AM | DESIGN

What's that heaving into view over the horizon? Thanks to smartphones, tablets, and pretty much everything enabled with GPS, it's the end of traditional navigation as we know it. You can't get lost now.READ MORE›

Google, Nokia, Ericsson And Navigation's Next Frontier: The Great Indoors

BY Kit Eaton | 12-01-2011 | 5:40 PM | INNOVATION

Getting around inside unfamiliar buildings is about to get a lot easier.READ MORE›

Navigation Powered By Declassified Missile Tech (And Maybe Apple) Makes Sci-Fi Real

BY Kit Eaton | 10-31-2011 | 9:41 AM | INNOVATION

Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ... and Google isn't necessarily along for the ride.READ MORE›

Why Better 3-D GPS Could Disrupt The Location Business

BY Kit Eaton | 08-17-2011 | 11:02 AM | INNOVATION

Researchers have come up with software that results in centimeter accuracy in height data for GPS equipment. Sounds like a simple trick, but it could have big side effects.READ MORE›

"Virtual Cane" Lets Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-30-2011 | 12:53 PM | INNOVATION

A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. READ MORE›

Is Social Sexier Than Sex?

BY Kit Eaton | 06-02-2011 | 6:40 AM | INNOVATION

Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price. But here's the catch: URLs themselves may not be long for this virtual world. READ MORE›

Apple Rocket-Boosts iOS To Rival Android

BY Kit Eaton | 05-09-2011 | 7:29 AM | INNOVATION

Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android, just as new stats confirm Android is "winning" the smartphone war. What comes next?READ MORE›

Why You Will Want Apple, Google To Track You

BY Kit Eaton | 04-26-2011 | 7:05 AM | INNOVATION

The dust-up over Apple and Google's location tracking leaves out an important group of people: those who want to be tracked. In the near future, many of us will want our smartphones tracking 24/7/365.READ MORE›

First Came iPhone's Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning

BY Kit Eaton | 04-20-2011 | 7:45 AM | INNOVATION

If you can't beat 'em, build an app. (With apologies to early Metallica for that headline.)READ MORE›

Nokia Leads Ride Pimping Initiative With Apps, Smartphones, NFC, Wireless Charging

BY Kit Eaton | 03-18-2011 | 11:10 AM | INNOVATION

Nokia and a long list of car and consumer electronics firms just agreed to form the Car Connectivity Consortium--a global effort to harmonize the electronic magic that will power your future car, and which would fill K.I.T.T. with envy.READ MORE›

Augmented Reality May Be the iPad 2's Secret Killer App

BY Kit Eaton | 03-15-2011 | 10:53 AM | INNOVATION

The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen, and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant?READ MORE›

East Chases West: China's Stealth Fighter, Japan's Own GPS

BY Kit Eaton | 01-05-2011 | 12:19 PM | INNOVATION

China's reported to have finalized its own stealth fighter prototype, tested in taxi runs last week. Simultaneously, Japan is rumored to be mulling its own GPS solution, to mitigate over-reliance on American tech. This is East meets West, technology style.READ MORE›

Ford's Cars Get Sync Destinations App: Welcome to Your Car of Tomorrow

BY Kit Eaton | 12-30-2010 | 10:19 AM | INNOVATION

Destinations lets you send traffic and navigation info to your car from your mobile phone, and even pre-warns you about your departure time and ETA based on what it knows about traffic. Your car is now as smart as a real co-driver.READ MORE›

Turn-by-Turn Google Maps on iPhone Steer Google, TomTom, Garmin to Dead End [Update]

BY Dan Nosowitz | 04-23-2010 | 2:39 AM | MAGAZINE

One of Android's biggest strengths, free turn-by-turn navigation, is coming to the iPhone. Update: We've had an official denial from Google--looks like the report was premature.READ MORE›

Death By Smartphone: In-Car Sat Nav Doomed, at Least in Europe

BY Kit Eaton | 04-16-2010 | 12:46 PM | INNOVATION

New research by Comscore has underlined something we always knew, but perhaps we weren't expecting to be so significant: Cellphone satellite navigation use in Europe is rocketing skywards at an amazing pace, at the expense of ...READ MORE›

E.U. Legislator's Data Privacy Concerns Could Kill E.U. Street View

BY Kit Eaton | 03-03-2010 | 10:17 AM | INNOVATION

You may have digital chills when pondering how much data Google collects about you, but the legislators in the E.U. are having serious spine-quakes, and are trying to regulate. An unexpected side-effect may be the death of E.U. ...READ MORE›

Ford Voice Interaction

BY Noah Robischon | 03-02-2010 | 8:54 PM | 03-02-2010 | 8:54 PM | DESIGN

An exploration of Ford's new voice-reliant nav systems and in-dash PCs.READ MORE›

Bing Turbo-Charges Maps, Equips It With Flickr, Space Telescope to Challenge Google

BY Kit Eaton | 02-12-2010 | 8:33 AM | INNOVATION

Here's evidence that Microsoft isn't just up for challenging Google in the usual Web-search business, but in other Google areas too: Like Maps. Bing's just demonstrated some upcoming tweaks, and they'll make Google nervous. ...READ MORE›

New Layar Makes The World Your Augmented Reality Show

BY Kit Eaton | 12-03-2009 | 7:53 AM | INNOVATION

It's hard not to be excited about Augmented Reality since it's a dream sci-fi tech that's actually real and growing before our eyes--led in part by the AR Browser Layar, which has just been updated. Its new powers show the future of ...READ MORE›

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Augmented Reality-Boosted Beer Drinking, Via Stella Artois

BY Kit Eaton | 11-30-2009 | 10:56 AM | INNOVATION

Probably not good news if you've just fallen off the wagon: Stella Artois has just leaped aboard the augmented reality advertising app bandwagon, and it's almost certainly the way beverage ads will go in the future, mainly through ...READ MORE›

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