Last week we introduced you to AIDA (the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent)--get used to her if you can. MIT and Audi are hoping that this robot, or one that looks even more like Pixar's EVE, may be gracing your car's dashboard to ...READ»
While the smartphone world is just coming down from its Android 2.0 high, Google is apparently already testing Android 2.1. Android fanboy site AndroidAndMe has reported that its analytics show 23 visits from Android 2.1 devices ...READ»
We reported yesterday that Google may upset the entire GPS market. Hours later, they did. Personal navigation stocks went into freefall yesterday after Google announced it would bring turn-by-turn navigation to its mobile Google Maps ...READ»
We wondered if makers of GPS navigation apps and systems should worry about Google's rumored efforts toward free turn-by-turn nav just the other day. And guess what--it's all true, and Tom Tom, Navigon, and the rest should be ...READ»
Earlier we reported that Google was abandoning Tele-Atlas to begin collecting its own mapping data. Now Forbes is reporting that personal navigation companies are afraid that Google will begin making its own PND software, undercutting ...READ»
Yesterday the Web caught wind that Apple had bought mapping software startup Placebase in July. Several recent patents filed by Cupertino suggest that the iPhone maker is interested in personal navigation. What do they have planned? ...READ»
First up was the Paris Subway augmented reality iPhone app, then came the London one, and now the U.S. version has hit the iTunes App Store. Borrowing from sci-fi movie implementations of the idea, it has been rebranded the Bionic ...READ»
Google's Street View revolutionized desktop maps, and its coverage of cities around the world is still expanding. But compared to some upcoming augmented reality apps, Google almost feels like its lagging. Is this why its added ...READ»
Seemingly moments after the first "real" augmented reality app hit Apple's iTunes App Store, more have arrived. One is a London version similar to that first Parist Metro app, and another is from Yelp, the customer-driven business ...READ»
The first "real" iPhone AR app has gone live in the iTunes App Store. But it's arrived earlier than expected--weeks before Apple said it would be allowed.READ»
Ford is doing things with navigation that you never expected--namely, bringing it to the masses, with voice control. The new Taurus, redesigned as the company's flagship for 2010, now sports the kind of nav you'd never have expected ...READ»
Dell recently announced it'll make a GPS add-on for its Mini 10 netbook. While your mileage may vary on the value of this idea, I'm making my mark here: This is one of the dumbest gadget ideas ever.
I can see the inherent value ...READ»
One of the most eagerly-awaited functions of the recent iPhone 3.0 firmware upgrade was the addition of proper turn-by-turn navigation. The first big-name effort has hit iTunes today: Navigon's MobileNavigator.READ»
Google's Street View app has always been, if you think about it, a bit mind-blowing (that's why we put Stephen Chau on our list of the 100 Most Creative People). But amazing--and free!--as it is, the app has never been very easy to ...READ»
They play Connect Four. They mix martinis. They paint. And at this
sixth annual event, robots go head-to-head in categories from
navigation to remote-controlled flame throwing.
In the past two years, the gathering has doubled to ...READ»
They play Connect Four. They mix martinis. They paint. And at this sixth annual event, robots go head-to-head in categories from
navigation to remote-controlled flame throwing. In the past two years, the gathering has doubled to 70 ...READ»
The next iPhone could be the center of a sophisticated in-car navigation system, if a recently revealed Apple patent is taken to logical extremes. We've mentioned Apple's extensive patenting of GPS technology before, but that's ...READ»
At the end of February, Microsoft [MSFT] brought suit against GPS company TomTom [TOM2] for several patent infringements pertaining to TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation software. Now the Linux community is preparing for a fight, ...READ»
Sony and Google joined forces today to tackle the Amazon Kindle, the current king of e-books...by releasing half a million out-of-print books for the Sony E-Reader from Google's Book Search library. Will it be an effective ...READ»
The Palm Pre is going to be a hot item when it launches this summer--possibly hot enough to tackle the iPhone. One reason it's gaining so much traction is that the Pre's features weren't designed to compete against the current ...READ»
"Michael, I'm detecting elevated stress levels in your voice print. Is something going wrong?" is exactly the sort of line you'll hear spoken by the fictional KITT in Knight Rider from time to time. And with a patent it just ...READ»
News that Garmin and Asus were teaming up to produce the other type of convergence smartphone--marrying serious navigation power with a cellphone--only hit the other week, but the alliance has just stumped up with news on its first ...READ»
Although the megapixel war continues, stupidly, in cameraphones, Samsung's Memoir gets a pass. It's a sweet mashup of an 8-megapixel camera married to a cellphone with a huge touchscreen.
The camera module behaves much like a ...READ»
