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GPS Earings

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With the advent of in-car GPS navigation systems, designers have been trying to solve the problem of conveying direction information without distracting the driver - causing them to navigate into a tree, for example. Unfortunately, the systems which 'speak' directions become very annoying after a short period of use. The voices remind you variously of an old school teacher, a home-shopping presenter or a physics professor reading out the "Brief History of Time".

Another solution is to transmit simple positioning information by means of vibrating earings... These desirable accessories would vibrate alternately depending on whether you need to turn left or right, if both vibrate you're going the wrong way.

You may correctly surmise that guys wouldn't wear these, but then we seldom admit we need directions anyway...

—riposte, May 08 2004

(??) A N Four Course Range http://www.centenni...ion_tech/Tech33.htm
I have been told that these were the cause of many early pilot's deafness. [Klaatu, Oct 04 2004]

This? http://www.alibaba....rings-for-kids.html
Was this what you wanted in 2004? [popbottle, Mar 15 2014]

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       <vision of driver smacking herself in the head>.. "Damn things not working again..."

Non gender specific: vibrate the left or right buttock through the seat.
—Ling, May 08 2004
   

       And, of course, vibrating GPS nipple rings.
—ldischler, May 08 2004
   

       // nipples vibrating whilst I drive //   

       Quite confident a unique combination of these words, even in this day an age :)
—theircompetitor, May 08 2004
   

       This is just like the "Aural Courses" in the 1930's for airplane navigation... the pilot listened to alternate beeping to figure out if he was on the center of the radio navigational course. If anybody has a link for that... it'd be appreciated.
—zigness, May 08 2004
   

       Here is your link [zigness]
—Klaatu, May 09 2004
   
      
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