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World’s Largest Drawing with a GPS Briefcase!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, Earth, Educational, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, gps, technology by max on the May 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

World\'s Largest Drawing with a GPS Briefcase!

World\'s Largest Drawing with a GPS Briefcase!

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Lol, this must be the most creative drawing idea I’ve seen in a while.  Basically, you can read the excerpt, “I sent away a briefcase containing a GPS device with DHL.  I gave them exact travel instructions, where to go and in what order.  55 days later the briefcase returned to Stockholm.  Ths GPS automatically recorded the briefcase’s journey around the world.  The information was downloaded to computer and gave me my drawing…”

Pointlessly magnificent!

via make

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Driving Hack - How to tell Where the Speedtraps are and download them to your GPS!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Earth, Educational, Gadgets, HOWTO, Hack, Web, WebApp, gps by max on the May 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am

Driving Hack - How to tell Where the Speedtraps are and download them to your GPS!

Wow, now you can use njection.com to find out where the speed camera traps are. Since I live in San Francisco and there are so many speed traps everywhere, I did a search for my zip code and that’s what you see in the above screenshot. Pretty accurate too as I can verify some of the speed traps from back of my head.

You can also download this information to your GPS device, how cool is that?

Hopefully less tickets for you and you come back to Zedomax for more… :p

Shannon Atkinson launched Njection.com as a place for gearheads to shoot the breeze about anything and everything auto-related. It wasn’t long before he sensed a theme in the posts. “One of the biggest topics on the site became speed traps and cameras,” Atkinson told us. “People want to know about those whether they’re a truck driver, a road warrior or just someone who wants to drive without worrying about it.”

So Atkinson added Speedtrap, a feature that combines drivers’ tips with Microsoft Virtual Earth to identify speed traps - either a real, live cop with a radar gun or one of those damned cameras - throughout the U.S. There’s even a few foreign cities, such as London, Toronto and Rome.

Now, the information can be downloaded directly to portable navigation devices from Garmin, Mio, TomTom and others via Njection.com so that drivers can pinpoint speed traps on a given route. Atkinson says the identity of Njection’s many speed-trap tipsters is kept confidential, and they include more than a few police officers who like the site because what “they’re mostly interested in is getting people to drive safely.”

via Wired

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DIY HACK - How to build a cheap bluetooth audio for your GPS!

Posted in Bluetooth, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, HOWTO, Hack, gps by max on the May 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

DIY HACK - How to build a cheap bluetooth audio for your GPS!

Here’s a good instructable on how to build a cheap bluetooth audio for your GPS. If your GPS doesn’t already support bluetooth (I believe most don’t), this is a great cheap way to get all those audible directions into just the driver’s ears, not everyone in the car.

I needed a way to hear my cheap a$$ GPS under the helmet on my motorcycle and didn’t wanna fork over 2x the price for a “motorcycle ready” GPS device so I made it myself.
This may be interesting to bikers a well!

[via] instructables

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