Gadgets

• August 28, 2006Gadgets, general

  Ubiquitous advertising

  Even ads are ubiquitous these days as an article from BBC News points out. The article looks at how different technologies are being used to better market to buyers. The […]

• August 20, 2006Gadgets, general, Remote Sensing

  Spy Plane on the cheap

  Saw this one on HGTV’s I Want That: Tech Toys. The XB-39 Eagleye is a R/C plane with a built in digital camera allowing you to capture those high resolution […]

• August 17, 2006Gadgets, general

  Where do they get all those toys?

  Ok, so this is probably pretty pedestrian for most real geospatial users out there. There’s a little write-up in Digital Trends about how mapping companies like Tele Atlas get their […]

• August 16, 2006Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments

  Geospatial Augmented Reality

  Check out this article about how Simon Frasier University is taking advantage of virtual environments and augmented reality in the classroom (and beyond). These technologies are flourishing in some areas, […]

• August 7, 2006Gadgets, general

  New Mac Pro and MacOS 10.5 announced

  While we have been at the ESRI Plenary, Steve Jobs took stage up north and introduced a couple of little things. I am pretty excited about the new Mac Pro […]

• August 4, 2006Gadgets, general

  Jeff Han: touch screen interface

  We blogged a video of this way back when (yeah I couldn’t find it), but this video is just so much cooler that I had to blog it again when […]

• August 1, 2006Gadgets, general, GIS_Software

  ArcPad Today Powertoy

  This morning on the new ArcPad dev team blog, they released a small powertoy for the PocketPC. The ArcPad Today Powertoy is a free today screen plug-in that allows you […]

• July 26, 2006Gadgets, general

  Real time traffic tracking

  This isn’t your father’s real time traffic tracking. This is personal. Technology has been out for awhile now that can read a license plate in traffic from a distance. So […]

• June 28, 2006Gadgets, general

  LAPD Get their Spidey Tracer!

  If you read the blog regularly, you’ll know my facination with the “Spidey Tracer”. (in truth, I’m facinated with all super gadgets… Batman is my hero!) Now the LAPD will […]

• June 26, 2006Gadgets, general

  TomTom not SueSue

  I know it is just a commercial, and I have never actually used a TomTom, but I agree that it is better to go with a TomTom than SueSue…she doesn’t […]