Comments on: GPS Cyborg Implant

By: Aximilation

Aximilation — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:34:51 +0000

Awesome thoughts, I’ve been thinking of this for a while, I’m planning on building a web site that basically tracks your gps location via live internet updates and is accessible via a client, useful for many of the game ideas that have been mentioned already.
I haven’t been working on the project as of yet, although I believe it has a lot of potential with multiple platforms/devices, I just need to get started on it and/or get some help with the coding. I already registered the domain name geobashing.com (like geohashing / geocaching, but you *bash* people when you find them)
Anyone around, feel free to take a look at the following document, and please, email me comments or thoughts, especially if you would be interested in being a part of the development team.
Geobashing.com writeup/brainstorming:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfbpc2xf_7gmqw3tcz
Email: webmaster…aaaaat…. aximilation…dot…com

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:46:25 +0000

thank you for the Ender reference :D

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:56:59 +0000

With Python for S60, it wouldn’t be at all hard to send the GPS data as SMS messages, or if you like over cellular IP.

Think about it: to start the game, we form two teams. Each player is assigned a partner in the other, at random. We create a hash based on each player’s details and print out a big QR code of it. Everyone wears their QR codes. As you move around, every few seconds, your GPS location is sent to your partner. Jane uses this as the target, until you get within X metres with the target in your field of view, when she says “TARGET BEARING X, RANGE X; RELEASE TO LOCAL CONTROL…” and goes quiet for 30 seconds, in which time you have to snap a cameraphone image of the target’s QR code.

Each player has a list of the hashes, encrypted with their partner’s phone number, and each player is assigned another player as referee. The QR is sent to the ref, who decrypts it with your phone number and compares the hash with your target. If it matches, the ref sends everyone the “X IS DEAD!!!” message; if not, you lose a point. Too many down and you’re dead.

The winner is the team with the most players left standing at the agreed finish. I’d call it Urban Gorilla and have one team dress as gorillas, and the others as something…urban. Refinement: at the agreed finish, you start getting directions to the agreed pub.

By: T045TBR0T

T045TBR0T — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:15:01 +0000

This would be an awesome app for the Pandora ( http://www.openpandora.org/ ), especially since the Dev-Team made sure the battery is very long-lasting (:

By: Continuity

Continuity — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:19:52 +0000

AFAIK java runs on windows mobile and there is a possibility to access GPS devices (internal and external via bluetooth etc) with the java mobile API.
Speech may be done with some generated speech files (think this works somehow with espeak, else speak them yourself) and an algorithm to put them together…

Think I’m going to try this out :D

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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:51:06 +0000

[...] as you probably know, I am a fan of the webcomic XKCD. Back in May, Randall posted a comic and a blag article about his idea of a dead reckoning type navigation system, which every couple of seconds it speaks [...]

By: AdamT

AdamT — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:11:21 +0000

In a few days I’ll be getting a smartphone with Windows Mobile OS 5, and I was wondering if somehow a GPS script could be written for Windows and put on a smartphone like that, so I was going to toy around with it for a little while. All these new phones have headphone jacks so a small phone with the GPS script could easily fit in your pocket unobtrusively and still give you directions. (Of course, the phone has its own GPS, but I won’t use that for two reasons here. 1.) That, of course, would be MUCH too easy. You can’t let the phone win. It’s like the comic “Duty Calls”. 2.) I’m cheap. I don’t want to pay for that service.) I’m gonna begin working on a python script for this for windows, because on the chance that I can’t put in on that phone an ASUS PC is definitely small enough to work that

By: Bader

Bader — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:36:47 +0000

I was just wondering, I wanted to do something like this with an arduino (carrying around a laptop seems a bit much to me, but a small device like an arduino wouldn’t be bad), I know how to hook a gps up to it (at the very least I can use the GPS Logger shield), but I’m wondering about ideas for outputing the result to the user, the only idea I have so far is a led matrix, though I suppose, I have a smartphone with python maybe I could work something with that…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:31:27 +0000

I’ve been using the GPS option on my cellphone. Sometimes it gets a little confused in needlessly complex cities like DC, but overall its very useful, and I’ve really cut down on the amount of time I spend lost.

By: Leandro Tami

Leandro Tami — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:05:43 +0000

Blind people would truly appreciate something like this!
This advancement, together with a nice exoskeleton that could allow paraplexic people to walk, are great promises of a not-so-far future.