gps
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Follow the cruel and unyielding demands of your phone in order to stay fit on a custom jogging route! Bonus feature: allows the user to participate in the “sharing economy.”
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Background: Phone map apps often have a few optional settings for a route, such as: Avoid highways (for driving) Fewer bus transfers (for public transit) Avoid hills (for walking) The issue: Sometimes, you want drive on the most scenic route from point A to point B, without too much concern about efficiency. For example, you might…
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Background: When people go on vacation, 99% of their pictures are of sunsets and monuments that have been photographed thousands of times before. Sure, that image of a majestic tropical bird perched in front of a waterfall may seem like one-in-a-million shot, but that still means that one hundred variants of it have already been…
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The issue: When parking on the street or in an enormous shopping center parking lot, it can be easy to lose track of exactly where one’s car is parked. Since cell phones constantly record a person’s GPS location as a standard feature (if you are not familiar with this, look up “iPhone Track location”—the images are…
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TITLE: Daily recap: One weird all-seeing-eye trick to staying focused on your goals Background: People currently carry cell phones that have the ability to record nearly all aspects of life. For example: Location, via GPS Step counting, via accelerometer (and GPS) All Internet usage that goes through that device All text messages All email correspondence…
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