Archive for January 19th, 2006





A VerySpatial Listener Survey

Jan 19th, 2006 | By

In our search for power and glory, we have waited 1/2 year to formally ask you what you think. We are using a third party survey hosted by Podtrac to get to know you and your opinion of avsp. We know your numbers and we know some of you personally, but now we want to [...]



Wow….now you, too, can feel like Godzilla!

Jan 19th, 2006 | By

Check out this entry from the RFID in Japan blog. They have created an exhibition with a giant aerial photo of the city on the floor, with over 7000 RFID tags embedded in the floor beneath the photo. As you move the portable information display around the photo (they plan to add PDA-based support soon), [...]



NASA’s New Horizons probe blasts off for Pluto

Jan 19th, 2006 | By

After scrubbing the first 2 launch times, the New Horizons probe finally lifted off just under an hour ago. It will take it 10 years to reach Pluto, but it is still the fastest spacecraft ever launched. Via CNN 



Why you should clearly mark your geocache!

Jan 19th, 2006 | By

This story on CNN demostrates why you need to clearly mark a geocache as such. From the article, “In June, a bomb squad in De Pere, Wisconsin, used a robot-mounted shotgun to blast the lid off a suspicious-looking military ammunition box found in a park. It also turned out to be a geocache.” It’s a [...]