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A pair of glasses frames that project an automatically panning projected compass graticule at the top of the wearer's field of vision. Brightness auto-modulated depending on ambient illumination.
Cheap version indicates magnetic bearing using a Hall-effect sensor array; De Luxe version uses GPS to
display either grid North or magnetic North corrected for local deviation.
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So the fancy version has GPS solely to correct for magnetic
deviation, and refuses to tell you where you are or point out
the direction to a chosen destination, even though it easily
could? |
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Not only that; it has an infuriating habit of saying "You should have turned right back there". |
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It could wait until you arrived at your destination before saying "You could have got here 15 minutes ago if you had chosen a different route" and then smugly shut itself off. |
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If you're lucky, it doesn't speak to you again for four hours. |
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It can shirley only be a matter of time before all GPS
navigation apps are tailored by corporate interests. When
crossing a city, for instance, it would be a trivial matter to
ensure that your route took you past the maximum possible
number of Burger King outlets. |
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[Max] Route choice will be driven by your browsing cookies. So if, to take a purely hypothetical example, your browsing history includes visits to expensive, fancy lingerie websites, your directions across town will preferentially choose routes which pass by expensive, fancy lingerie shops. |
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//all GPS navigation apps are tailored by corporate
interests//
And there-in lies the problem. I was thinking about it this
morning (more specifically, Google search results being "re-
ordered" due to meddling) - if everything is "monetised",
everything (eventually) is controlled by the biggest player. If
I WANT to go to Burger King (I don't, ever...) I'll go. But if I
don't and "they" assume I do and try to influence me (openly
or sub-consciously), "they" can kindly fuck off. |
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<AI scans anno, [neut]'s satnav surreptitiously reprogrammes itself to route via red-light district/> |
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Excellent! I've been wondering where all the red lights
went! |
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I've got to admit I assumed the borg all came with a HUD as
standard. |
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<Scratches [Loris]'s name off Xmas card list> |
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Yes, we have much better things than the described idea; we are offering you puny humans the chance to see what you're missing out on. |
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HUDs are so primitive, though, and they clutter your visual
feed. Much better to have inputs wired for direct awareness
and just bypass sensory inputs. I did advise the Borg against
relying on Amstrad for their tech. |
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Yes, but your advice was to purchase all our technology needs from a single reliable supplier, which turned out (to no-one's surprise) to be MaxCo ... |
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And if you'd stuck to that advice, you wouldn't have neck-ache
from that head-mounted CRT. |
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You two are a laugh..... always squabbling over
boxes of coloured wires. Eat more Brussel sprouts
and you'll have an epiphany. |
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I always knew I was right to avoid brussels sprouts. |
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What happens to the GPS version when the user isn't
outside? Once I become accustomed to navigation derrived
from the cardinal points and I lose GPS signal, how will I find
my way to the nearest facilities? It's no use saying the GPS
will have magnetic back up because there's an MRI scanner
on the way. Worryingly, I routinely have to remind people of
extensive education that no, they don't turn the magnet off
at the end of the day. |
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// What happens to the GPS version when the user isn't outside? // |
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The unit locates itself based on 802.11 access points, and signals from nearby cellphone handsets. |
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// You two are a laugh..... always squabbling over boxes of coloured wires. // |
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// Eat more Brussel sprouts and you'll have an epiphany. // |
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No thanks. Having to use one of those bags to collect bowel contents sounds highly undesirable. |
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