ASUS lays out Armdroid and Wintel tablet plans, we already feel overwhelmed
Friday, October 29, 2010
ASUS lays out Armdroid and Wintel tab...
Garmin navigation to be an Android ex...
Garmin navigation to be an Android exclusive for ASUS, headed to Apple and RIM app stores
Details of the Garmin-ASUS breakup are slowly being revealed. We now know that ASUS has obtained exclusive rights to license Garmin navigation and location based services on its Android smartphones with a Garmin navigation trademark slapped on the back -- other Android handset makers need not apply. ASUS will go back to selling its own-brand handsets in January, including models equipped with 3D for gaming and connectivity with ASUS ebook readers and tablets, according to DigiTimes. For its part, Garmin's official blog says that it will be expanding its mobile application handset development by offering navigation and other applications through "certain consumer application stores." According to DigiTimes, that means Apple's iTunes App Store and RIM's App World. So, in other words, Garmin and ASUS are still friends but are now free to date anyone they want, you know, except for anyone in eachother's families. How mature.Bluetooth module for Olympus Micro Fo...
Bluetooth module for Olympus Micro Four Thirds cameras hits the FCC
LaCie slams 3TB drives into d2 USB 3....
LaCie slams 3TB drives into d2 USB 3.0 and LaCie 2big USB 3.0, ups performance numbers
Do you have The Need? For Speed? Yeah, so do we, and it just so happens that LaCie does as well. Just weeks after the company properly introduced the "now shipping" status on its d2 USB 3.0 and 2big USB 3.0 drives, it has now expanded the options with a 6TB model. So far as we can tell, it looks as if the outfit placed a rather sizable order for those 3TB HDDs that were just unleashed by Western Digital, and it has tuned up the performance all the while. The 2big has reached 306MB/sec in the lab, representing a 20 percent speed boost over the prior models while making it "the fastest 2-bay RAID solution on the market." As for the d2? It can hum along at 156MB/sec with the inclusion of a 3TB hard drive. Both units are slated to hit retail next month, but asking prices are being kept under wraps for now.NPD: 28% Of Smartphones Sold In Q1 20...
NPD: 28% Of Smartphones Sold In Q1 2010 Were Android
Finally, some empirical evidence that illustrates what we’ve known for some time now: Android is growing like gangbusters. In fact, 28% of smartphones sold in Q1 2010 were Android, compared to 21% for iOS. RIM still holds the top spot with 36%, but that’s a drop of roughly 12% in the past year – while iOS has fallen approximately 10% itself. In the same period, Android increased over 20%.
In fact, it seems like Android grew at the expense of just about everyone else – excluding a minor 1-2% increase in "other". And as Android...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Garmin and Asus Say Sayonara to Smart...
Garmin and Asus Say Sayonara to Smartphone Biz
Garmin and Asus today announced that they will no longer co-develop their current line of navigation-focused smartphones. The companies will continue to sell and support the six devices that they have already developed, but will cease bringing more to market. Asus said that it will move forward in developing its own branded smartphones, and it may use some Garmin software for navigation. Garmin said it will target existing smartphone platforms by developing new, Garmin-branded navigation applications that it hopes to sell through various smartphone application stores.
TOPO Afghanistan
TOPO Afghanistan
Sales will be through government distributors and to individuals affiliated with the ISAF or other government users.
While there are military issue GPS receivers being used in Afghanistan, I’ve been impressed by the number of comments and questions I’ve heard over the years from troops using their own standard, commercially available handheld units in the field.
Like most specialized mapping software, Topo Afghanistan doesn’t come cheap. List price is $399.96 (USD) for the DVD or pre-programmed microSD card (with SD adapter), though I understand that there will be a 25% off introductory discount that brings it down to $299.97
More screenshots…
Provided Images © 2010 North Hollywood Cartography
Augmented Reality Sex Offender Tracke...
Augmented Reality Sex Offender Tracker App for iPhone
BeenVerified.com has just launched the first augmented reality app for iPhone that keeps tabs on sex offenders.The Sex Offender Tracker App uses the latest in augmented reality technology to locate registered sex offenders that are near your current location. This combination results in a live visual representation of the exact location of sex offenders as related to a specific physical location.
5% of the sales of the $1.99 app will go to Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network(RAINN), which works to promote issues related to the prevention of sexual assault.
Full press release.
US Army to bring drone images to troo...
US Army to bring drone images to troop phones soon
The US Army may be capable of sending surveillance video images from aircraft drones to troops' cellphones within two years, a Tuesday report said. Called the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), it should send images from the battlefield to soldiers waiting on the ground. The program is under development and is expected to be launched in 2014, said Tim Owings, deputy program manager for Army unnamed aerial systems.Upgrade for Garmin BaseCamp ver. 3.1.1
Upgrade for Garmin BaseCamp ver. 3.1.1
Garmin has an upgrade available for BaseCamp, their mapping software companion that allows users to plan trips, add waypoints, download Birdseye Imagery, and generally interact with handheld GPS units in its product line. The software can be powerful and help users get the most out of their GPS but has been criticized in the past for its slow performance, specifically related to Birdseye image downloading and work.
The upgrade is 3.1.1, and adds some nice features to the BaseCamp repertoire, but the main enhancement is the fact that BaseCamp continues to get faster. Garmin has been focused on this for the last several months, which is good, because early on BirdsEye was barely worth using it took so long to download and put onto your device. I am thoroughly addicted to having the imagery on my handheld, and value it not only for hiking but also when I use it for road biking too. Here's a list from Garmin on the upgrades:
- Added support for additional BirdsEye products. (This relates to additional country specific BirdsEye products for Europe)
- Added ability to select non-rectangular area for BirdsEye download.
- Added ability to search through all text in user data for specified string.
- Consolidated POI, address and new user data search.
- Enhanced display of find results on the map.
- Added support for custom waypoint symbols, including ability to send and receive symbols to non-mass storage devices like the GPSMap 60 series.
- Added support for address search on maps read from a device.
- Made a significant improvement in memory efficiency for BirdsEye images.
- Added ability to search for and download Garmin Connect activities. Use Find Garmin Connect Activities under the Find menu.
- Added ability to transfer tracks to Garmin Connect.
- Added support for a new plug-in architecture that allows users to add new import and export formats. A separate post on these forums will give more details.
- Added ability to import TCX files, using the plug-in architecture.
- Added ability to export TCX, CSV and tabbed text files, using the plug-in architecture.
- Fixed numerous issues reported from the field.
If you upgrade, you will need to allow the BirdsEye products to "update", which can take over 30 minutes. If you upgrade, you will not be able to use the software without doing so. I have a small handful of BirdsEye images, and my computer took 25 minutes running in the background.
Results of Installing BaseCamp ver 3.1.1?
Well, the speed of using the BaseCamp product was a lot faster than I have ever seen. Not as dramatic as some previous updates (moving the speed from glacial to acceptable), but the speed continues to improve and at this point (very good), with speed issues out of the way, I highly recommend it. The $29/yr subscription is well worth it. (I am running the BaseCamp for the Mac currently.)
Problems or issues? Others have reported losing their data in the upgrade, I did not; it was all there. BaseCamp does think that I don't have an active subscription to BirdsEye, but I do, and can still download the images. Doesn't seem to be a problem and may just be a bad flag.
One of the best new features is that you can now download non-rectangular selections of imagery. I previously had to patch together a series of squares to get a long diagonal tract of land, now you can draw a circle with the cursor, or just highlight a series of points in a polygon to indicate what you want downloaded. I drew a polygon around downtown Boston and out into the Back Bay as an example, with a smooth line along the Charles River to the north.
In a few seconds BaseCamp converts that to the underlying (square) images that get downloaded (see below). Much easier to create an efficient download that gives you what you need and leaves out what you don't. In a world where memory is abundant, the images and more importantly the space on your GPS are still limited, so having just what you want is a good thing. The results of drawing an odd shape around just downtown Boston are below.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
TinEye is a handy reverse image searc...
TinEye is a handy reverse image search engine. If finds where on the web an image comes from.
You can use it to find where a photo of yours appears elsewhere, to find a higher res version of an image, or to locate the origins of a photo someone forwarded to you.
It does not use keywords, watermarks, or inbound links (as Google does) to locate images; rather it locates images via matching digital fingerprints of the image's pixel arrays. This means it can find images that have been renamed, or cropped slightly, or even screen grabbed.
Currently TinEye is not exhaustive. In my experience it won't find all the copies of an image. (They only claim to recognize a billion images so far, which is a small subset of all images on the web.) But it will find enough to be useful.
It can browse your hard disk for a target image, but even cooler is the Firefox plugin which enables you to select in image on a web page and in a click find where else on the web this image also appears.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Unleash the iPads of War! Military Ma...
Unleash the iPads of War! Military Maps Now Apps
from Danger Room
Ever since the Army held a contest for iPhone and Android applications in March, software developers have drooled at the chance to get in on the military market. Judging by what’s on display at the annual Association of the U.S. Army confab in Washington, get ready for a lot of apps that map — keeping track of both allies and enemies.
The above display on the iPad of a Textron Systems employee shows a map of friendly and hostile locations — the blue houses have U.S. troops in them — that soldiers can gather out in the field and send back to their command stations for further analysis. It’s running through SoldierEyes, a secure cloud that runs lots of little applets for intelligence, command-and-control and battlefield awareness, developed by two Textron subsidiaries, Overwatch and AAI.
The SoldierEyes Common Operating Picture, for instance, is like a mini Blue Force Tracker, explains Evan Cormin, who works on the project: a real-time way for soldiers to monitor where friendly forces are at any given time, represented by little blue boxes. And not just friendlies: Plug in an enemy’s position, and the cloud shares it with anyone else running SoldierEyes, whether out on patrol or back at the command post. Its GPS components allow soldiers to use the map for navigation while they see where their friends and foes are.
Load Augmented Reality, another SoldierEyes sub-app, ditches the map. Instead, it uses your handheld’s camera to give you a picture of what’s in front of you — but with the colored boxes of friendlies and enemies in position on the screen. The idea is make sure that soldiers getting out of their vehicles don’t lose a sense of their surroundings once the Humvee doors swing open and they aren’t behind a computer screen anymore.
Not to be outdone, Raytheon has designed its own smartphone, called RATS, for Raytheon Advanced Tactical Systems. Mark Bigham, a company vice president for business development, shows off the RATS apps on his own touchscreen Android phone. Running over a 3G network using a server hosted in a laptop called Ratman, RATS runs maps that represent friendlies and hostiles ID’d by any individual user.
Distribution isn’t automatic: Individual users have to send particular identifications out in order to compile a common master map. You share them with what’s essentially a version of a Buddy List to create — yes — a RAT pack. A complementary app, “Salute Report,” allows soldiers to text a report back to their bases using a template of the Army’s standard format. RATS can also send video images, but that takes a lot of bandwidth.
But the feature Bigham is most juiced about is basically an MS Paint program to ID enemy fighters. “Say Robert’s the bad guy,” he says, snapping a photo of an unsuspecting nearby Raytheon employee. Using a quick touchscreen stylus program, Bigham traces a red circle around a picture of Robert’s face. “Now we disseminate it in seconds … and in the [command center], they upload the image, asking, ‘Is this the guy I want to get?” Bigham says. If Robert doesn’t look out, the new mapping apps may have the cavalry coming for him.
Photo: Spencer Ackerman
Monday, October 25, 2010
Seals VR7 has GPS and knows Morse code
Seals VR7 has GPS and knows Morse code
UK’s Seals Technology just recently came out with an all-weather rugged phone with integrated GPS. It is called Seals VR7 and is IP-67 rated which means it is dust tight, and can withstand water immersion up to 1 meter depth.
The really interesting highlight with Seals VR7 is that it has a special optical signal for help function that can send GPS coordinates to a group of five other handsets if you’re in danger. It can even send Morse code!!!
Other features include electronic compass, flashlight, weather forecast tool, and extra loud speakers…via
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Seals VR7 has GPS and knows Morse code
Seals VR7 has GPS and knows Morse code
UK’s Seals Technology just recently came out with an all-weather rugged phone with integrated GPS. It is called Seals VR7 and is IP-67 rated which means it is dust tight, and can withstand water immersion up to 1 meter depth.
The really interesting highlight with Seals VR7 is that it has a special optical signal for help function that can send GPS coordinates to a group of five other handsets if you’re in danger. It can even send Morse code!!!
Other features include electronic compass, flashlight, weather forecast tool, and extra loud speakers…via
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
Pantone's CAPSURE tells you what colo...
Pantone's CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Garmin BirdsEye Select brings raster ...
Garmin BirdsEye Select brings raster topos to Europe; US to follow?
The UK has had such imagery for awhile, and I’m not sure what all the differences are between the Garmin GB Discoverer series (which offers both 1:50K and 1:25K scale maps) and the Garmin Select product at 1:25K. Perhaps some of our friends across the pond can chime in.
What’s interesting to me though, is this bringing us closer to seeing a quality USGS topo product from Garmin. At least I’m hoping that’s the plan.
The i
Friday, October 22, 2010
Report: Garmin-Asus partnership to end
Report: Garmin-Asus partnership to end
While the article doesn’t fully address Garmin’s future mobile strategy, it seems to confirm that they are going toexit the smartphone hardware market. I guess we won’t be seeing that Garmin-Asus Windows Phone 7 model after all.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Sony may have 24MP translucent mirror...
Sony may have 24MP translucent mirror camera by mid-2011
Sony was claimed by multiple sources late last night to be developing a new, very high-end DSLR using the same translucent mirror technology behind the Alpha A33 and A55. It would come with a new 24-megapixel crop frame sensor that would still have as little noise as the 14- to 16-megapixel sensors on the existing cameras. The camera would have a Bionz processor related to the A33/A55 design, Sony Alpha Rumors said in its details, and would have micro-adjustment of AF points as well as capture video up to 1080p30....Diminished Reality: Impressive Video ...
by Serkan Toto on October 21, 2010
Scary or cool? This technology developed by a team of researchers at Technische Universität Ilmenau in Germany is probably both. Their so-called “Diminished Reality” system makes it possible to manipulate video in real-time. As opposed to Augmented Reality, which adds virtual objects to real world images, Diminished Reality removes selected objects from video recordings.
The way it works is that first, the object to be eliminated from the footage has to be specified and detected. After that, the system analyzes the immediate surroundings of the object, for example the look of a table it was standing on, and fills out the empty space with that information.
According to the researchers behind this Diminished Reality application, this process just takes a few milliseconds and works both for video streams and static pictures.
This pretty impressive video provides more insight:
Via Chip [GER]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tiny new Panasonic DVR has Blu-ray, h...
Tiny new Panasonic DVR has Blu-ray, hard drive
Panasonic Japan has just introduced what it says is the smallest DVR with both a Blu-ray writer and a hard drive. Dubbed DIGA DMR-BF200, the device can record to its internal 320GB hard drive or burn BD-R or BD-RE discs. The DVR weighs less than 5lbs and is well under a foot wide and long, while just under 2.6 inches thick.
It has support for streaming multimedia and connect to the web thanks to an Ethernet port. Other connections include an HDMI port, RCA jacks and antenna input and output, along with an SD card slot out front. Videos are recorded in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, with maximum recording capacity of the hard drive at about 290 hours.
The DMR-BF200 arrives in Japan on November 15 for the equivalent of $862, but there is no indication when or if the device will arrive in other markets. [via Impress]
Android ‘Gingerbread’ 3.0 Tablet OS
Seems like the pending release of an Android tablet is generating heaps of blognews?
Android ‘Gingerbread’ 3.0 Coming in December, Android ‘Icecream’ 4.0 Coming Late 2011
Google’s Android mobile operating system has quickly become one of the most used mobile platforms in the world. However, while it is quite capable in its current iteration, there is still much room to grow. Due to this fact, Google will obviously push on to release future versions of their Android platform, as we’ve told you many times in the past.
However, while we know that these future versions are coming, when exactly is any one’s guess. Luckily, sources have reported today that Google is planning to ship the third version of their Android operating system dubbed Gingerbread this December. Now, this is the version of Android that will be tailored more towards tablets including a whole set of features aimed directly at slate devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Additionally, Google will push on following Android 3.0’s release to work on Android 4.0, also known as Icecream. Unfortunately, this version of Android won’t be available for public consumption until late 2011.
We’ll keep you posted as the story unfolds.
Netbook News By Peter Cartwright 19 Oct, 2010 7:15 pm
Update: HTC Tablet delayed further? Digitimes again reports a delay again, from Q4 2010 to Q2 2010. The last rumor we heard was that it’ll be delayed to Q1 2011, so this rumor, if true, sets the HTC tablet release date back even further.
Update: Digitimes has rumors of its own – ODM Pegatron recently landed orders for HTC’s tablet with some specs revealed – Nvidia Tegra 2, a multi-touch display with a 1280 x 720 resolution (no mention of screen size), 32GB SSD, 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Android with Marketplace support. Estimated price of $790.
Rumors about a tablet from HTC go way back to the start of this year with the most recent one being a possible Google Chrome OS tablet that would be released via Verizon on Black Friday this year. While that rumor was quickly shot down by Engadget here’s the latest one a month later.
HTC plans to launch a tablet in Q1 2011, possibly with Android 3.0 – sounds entirely plausible because many other manufacturers have announced just that. The same source says that RIM, Nokia and Motorola are readying their 7-10 inch tablets – we’ve heard about these tablets from these companies previously – the RIM BlackPad, the Motorola-Verizon tablet and a MeeGo based Nokia tablet.
Source: Digitimes
Android 3.0 due to start hitting tablets in December ahead of January launch
A holiday tradition? Making things out of gingerbread, and Google is doing its part to keep that practice alive according to a report statingAndroid 3.0 Gingerbread is set to hit some tablets this December. Those will just be early samples destined only to light up the eyes of engineers who've been very, very good this year, but the rest of us naughty boys and girls will get to see those slates when they launch to the public in January. We hear there's a little electronics showhappening that time of year, and supposedly HTC, Samsung, andMotorola will be showing their Gingerbread tablets there, amongst others (but not Lenovo, apparently). We can't wait to get a taste.Lenovo Delays US Android Tablet Until Honeycomb, Cancels Windows 7 Tablet Altogether
Hopefully you weren’t sitting on the Android tablet sidelines, patiently waiting for Lenovo’s options. Yeah, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. The company’s COO recent stated that the Lenovo’s US-market tablet will not be based around the Android 2.2 Froyo release, but rather Honeycomb. Therefore, if Google pushes back Honeycomb, Lenovo’s tablet will obviously have to suit. This puts the tablet on schedule for a Summer 2011 release — or rather a few months into the iPad 2′s life.
While the Android tablet was delayed, the Windows 7 flavor is simply canceled and for good reason too. Lenovo’s director of new technology, Howard Locker, nailed it by saying, “The challenge with Windows 7 is that it’s based on the same paradigm as 1985—it’s really an interface that’s optimized for a mouse and keyboard. It has to be optimized for touch. How do you do that?” Finally! At least someone gets it. Well, seeing how there really isn’t that many Windows 7 tablets available, a good amount of higher-ups probably get it, but it’s nice to see one actually say why.
It’s somewhat strange, however, to see Lenovo taking this standoffish approach though. This is the same company that stunned the CES 2010 press with some of the only innovative products at the whole show.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
GeoSmart Phones will Count 50 million in 2015
Last week Berg Insight published the new report Mobile Navigation Services – 4th Edition, which is a comprehensive market report analysing the latest developments on the global mobile turn-by-turn navigation market.
The number of active navigation service users, i.e. those that have used a navigation service at least once per month, reached an estimated 44 million worldwide at the end of Q2-2010. Berg Insight forecasts the number of active users to surpass 60 million in Europe and 50 million in North America respectively in 2015. In other parts of the world, handset-based navigation services are likely to become the main form of personal navigation solution already in the next few years and total active users is expected to reach 85 million at the end of 2015.
The main distribution channels for handset navigation services include mobile network operators, handset vendors, on-device application stores and various forms of content providers. At the end of Q2-2010, about 65 percent of the global active user base subscribed to a service marketed by a mobile operator and 15 percent used a service bundled with a GPS handset. The arrival of app stores has created a new channel to reach a broad audience of handset users. More than 15 percent of active users of mobile navigation services have downloaded their application from an application store.
Symbian Loses Its Leader
Symbian Loses Its Leader
Today the Symbian Foundation announced the immediate resignation of Executive Director Lee M. Williams. The Foundation cited personal reasons for Williams' departure. The Foundation appointed Tim Holbrow, formerly the Symbian Foundation's CFO, as Williams' replacement.
Android 3.0 ready for tablets by Dece...
Android 3.0 ready for tablets by December, 4.0 in late 2011
Google should be ready to load Android 3.0 just as tablets based on it should be in testing, sources claimed late Monday. Engineering samples would arrive in December and would come quickly enough that companies could start showing their tablets at CES in early January. Acer, ASUS, HTC, Motorola and MSI would all have new models on show at the Las Vegas technology expo, Digitimes said, to ship later in 2011....Monday, October 18, 2010
“We don’t fight by ourselves...
The military pushes situational awareness to the last tactical mile
By Barry Rosenberg
Oct 06, 2010
“We don’t fight by ourselves in the real world,” said Rosie Bauer, branch chief of the network operations branch of the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate at the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center. “We are joint with the Navy, Marines and Air Force. Whether we do it effectively is another question. But we fight the battle together. What we're trying to do now is make sure that whatever we develop is done on a joint perspective and not on a stovepipe.”
To break down those communications barriers, CERDEC has developed a virtual ad hoc network test bed, located at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The VAN is a network gatekeeper. Any application developed for the network must first prove it can interoperate with radios, waveforms and satellites via the VAN test bed before it can join a communications network.
By Barry Rosenberg
Oct 06, 2010
“We don’t fight by ourselves in the real world,” said Rosie Bauer, branch chief of the network operations branch of the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate at the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center. “We are joint with the Navy, Marines and Air Force. Whether we do it effectively is another question. But we fight the battle together. What we're trying to do now is make sure that whatever we develop is done on a joint perspective and not on a stovepipe.”
To break down those communications barriers, CERDEC has developed a virtual ad hoc network test bed, located at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The VAN is a network gatekeeper. Any application developed for the network must first prove it can interoperate with radios, waveforms and satellites via the VAN test bed before it can join a communications network.
Army pursues vision of common architecture An interview with Maj. Gen. Nickolas Justice is the commanding general of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., the Army’s technology development lead
DS: As we speak, you are heading to the airport to visit a company working with you on RDECOM’s Victory Architecture for vehicle communications and situational awareness. Tell us about those efforts.
Justice: I am heading to San Antonio to talk to some engineers about one of their system-of-systems engineering efforts to help us create an architecture for integrating electronics in vehicles. This is an effort that we’ve been working internally for a while. We’ve got a proposed architecture that we are about to present to industry, and we will be setting up some workshops for industry to help critique the plan so that we can come up with the right standards for integrating vehicles.
DS: What are some of the specifics of the Victory Architecture?
Justice: We want to be smart about how we integrate communications and technologies into the vehicles. We want electronics that do diagnostics on the health of the vehicle. We want our communications systems and our sensors to all work off the same data bus. Here is something that we want to leverage, for example.
A vehicle will have several systems installed that need access to GPS data, and what ends us happening is that I have multiple GPS products on the vehicle. Instead, it would be better if GPS was inherent on the vehicle and was able to feed data to multiple demand systems, such as Blue Force Tracker. I’ve got a source for GPS integrated into the vehicle, and other people can share it so that we don’t end up paying for multiple devices. We don’t have to create multiple installation kits and all the associated cable, and we can take advantage of the data bus in the vehicle to attach any kind of electronic device.
Justice: I am heading to San Antonio to talk to some engineers about one of their system-of-systems engineering efforts to help us create an architecture for integrating electronics in vehicles. This is an effort that we’ve been working internally for a while. We’ve got a proposed architecture that we are about to present to industry, and we will be setting up some workshops for industry to help critique the plan so that we can come up with the right standards for integrating vehicles.
DS: What are some of the specifics of the Victory Architecture?
Justice: We want to be smart about how we integrate communications and technologies into the vehicles. We want electronics that do diagnostics on the health of the vehicle. We want our communications systems and our sensors to all work off the same data bus. Here is something that we want to leverage, for example.
A vehicle will have several systems installed that need access to GPS data, and what ends us happening is that I have multiple GPS products on the vehicle. Instead, it would be better if GPS was inherent on the vehicle and was able to feed data to multiple demand systems, such as Blue Force Tracker. I’ve got a source for GPS integrated into the vehicle, and other people can share it so that we don’t end up paying for multiple devices. We don’t have to create multiple installation kits and all the associated cable, and we can take advantage of the data bus in the vehicle to attach any kind of electronic device.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
4 Best GPS digital camera
best GPS digital camera
Since we can not stop sharing about our whereabouts and what we are doing, we need to connect instantly and stay connected always.
Just like our phones got smarter, so did our cameras. Especially with GPS capabilities, cameras are helping us stay connected. Now we have GPS digital cameras. So we can keep sharing.
The internal clock will be adjusted to the local time of the place where the camera is (Sony HX5V and Panasonic DMC-ZS7).
Here are the links to Amazon where available:
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4 Best GPS digital camera
best GPS digital camera
Since we can not stop sharing about our whereabouts and what we are doing, we need to connect instantly and stay connected always.
Just like our phones got smarter, so did our cameras. Especially with GPS capabilities, cameras are helping us stay connected. Now we have GPS digital cameras. So we can keep sharing.
The internal clock will be adjusted to the local time of the place where the camera is (Sony HX5V and Panasonic DMC-ZS7).
Here are the links to Amazon where available:
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