"This handy portable map projector equipped with GPS makes getting lost a thing of the past. All you need is a surface to shine your map on. A friend's forehead would do. Designed by Jinsun Park and Seonkeun Park of South Korea's Samsung Art & Design Institute, the Maptor is somewhat similar to this map/flashlight we profiled awhile back, but far more convenient. Not only do you not have to bother with tiresome unfolding of paper, you don't have to search for your location, thanks to the GPS function that points it out."
- April Russo (app103)
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This is kind of cool, but where exactly are the maps coming from? Via bluetooth on your iPhone (which already has maps)?
- Cristo
Yeah, maps coming via bluetooth from an iPhone would certainly be a "glaring conceptual flaw" to me. iPhone = Do Not Want. IMO.
- Ladybug Heather
But comparing the size of a projected map to the screen size on an iPhone, it might be easier to see them this way.
- April Russo (app103)
Wouldn't the maps be in the device like any other gps?
- Cody Heitschmidt
Samsung has projector phones in the market now
- Taehoon Kim
Cody, the article says they come through a connection via bluetooth. Phones already have a connected mechanism for downloading maps. April, the size of the map might be bigger, but the ability to directly manipulate it is severely reduced. E.g. how would you get directions or look at a location other than where you are currently? Also, a backlit phone screen would probably be a lot easier to see than a projected one
- Cristo
Cristo, I guess I took "Maps can be downloaded via bluetooth" to mean that new or updated maps could be received via bluetooth and "Downloaded" to the device. If that is the case.. seems like a cool little gadget. If it is just projecting from another device you must carry around, how would it incorporate its GPS to put the red "u r here" arrow on it?
- Cody Heitschmidt
Cody, it would request a map from the device based on lat/long. If maps have to be manually downloaded, then what is the likelihood that the right map will be there when you go to use it? In my experience, manually loading maps has been a fail.
- Cristo
Who cares about tropical storms...watch out for massive flooding from my drool!
- Scott of Two Countries
Well, downloading maps for storage on the device wouldn't be that bad if it was regional maps. I don't think someone living in NYC needs every street map in the world. Having maps of Paris, London, and Tokyo would be a waste if all you need is NYC or the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area.
- April Russo (app103)
The easiest way to share and collect your texts, your quotes, your images, your favourites links , to organize your events with your friends or collect your favourites video. To meet new friends, follow their presence on in the "background noise" of every day, discovering their tastes and their personality through their shares.
- keyblader
گوجه فرنگی (به فارسی افغانستان: بادمجان رومی) یک نوع خوردنی و محصول کشاورزیست که از دسته سبزیجات میباشد. این گیاه بومی آمریکای جنوبی و مرکزی است که از این مناطق به دیگر نقاط جهان در چند قرن پیش منتقل شد.
گوجه فرنگی سرشار از ویتامین سی است #Photography#MrCrab
يكي از خواص انگور، صاف كننده و مولد خون بودن آن است. انگور قند خون را نيز تنظيم ميكند. به علاوه انگور قرمز براي تصفيه خون و خون سازي از انگور سبز هم بهتر است. #Photography#MrCrab
The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone
- keyblader
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Maya, right, a young dotted jaguar, walks by the side of her mother in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 28, 2005. It is the first jaguar to be born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years. Maya's parents have black fur, but her fur will remain dotted according to experts of the zoo. The cub is raised by her mother only, the father is kept separated
- keyblader
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Master of Design candidate, Jiyeon Song, has created this amazing interactive pavilion out little more than perforated panels. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice"
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As a lover of natural textures and literal translations of beauty, I am completely embraced by the prints. Through relief printing and a laborious rubbing technique Bryan Nash Gill created the piece Hemlock 82 (Bryan literally scratched his fingernails over every surface of the tree)
- keyblader