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Engadget has a great review on the now shipping Dash Express portable GPS unit. It seems every bit as cool as it sounds, but the price may leave your pocketbook a little light. Will the Community features and Internet connectivity cause you to open your wallet?
"Just like TiVo, the Dash Express is best-in-class at what it does, but that monthly fee is going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of people. If $600 bought you the Express and lifetime service, we'd be all over this thing; for now, we're going to say that it's revolutionary enough for road warriors and golden-pocketed early adopters to buy immediately, but we'll eagerly await the day when the power of the Dash community makes us willingly pay to join the club."
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Slashdot discuss a new GPS navigation system which relies on 'wisdom of the crowds'. Their summary explains it more clearly: "The New York Times is running an article on Dash Express, a new navigation system for automobiles that not only receives GPS location data, but broadcasts information about its travels. Information is passed back to Dash over a cellular data network, where it is shared with other users to let them know if there are slowdowns or traffic jams on the road ahead. The real benefit of the system isn't apparent until enough units are collecting data in a given area - so Dash distributed over 2,000 prototype units to test drivers in 25 large cities." All Points Blog also links to a Wired article on Dash. In related stories below, I included many previous stories which aim at real-time traffic info from Nav Systems.
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Here's a collection of recent GPS-related news items. First, the crowdsourcing GPS system named Dash recently discussed is now available for pre-order. From Engaget: "Compared to your usual, run of the mill GPS, whole connected navigator experience was not dissimilar from the jump between going from a VCR to a TiVo -- which is why we think maybe, just maybe, people might actually want to pay for service with this thing. Of course, the downside for dash is most people won't even realize what an amazing boon these kinds of features really are until they've taken one home and discovered it first hand out in the world." Very Spatial discuss a GPS navigation system which projects information on your windshield. Here' a very short entry on 3D buildings displayed on your SatNav. Here's another entry on the development of indoor positioning systems.
Technology: CNN Demoes Dash Networking GPS
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The Earth Is Square blog, has an article featuring the CNN video review of this product. From their summary : "Found this CNN video on the Dash Networking GPS. What made this GPS interesting for me was the traffic updating and the finding gas stations and sorting by the latest price. But the "downfall" of this GPS with the traffic conditions is that you need multiple vehicles in the area also using the Dash GPS so that you get a detailed traffic report."
This story was also covered in this article. For more information, and to see the video, head on over to the Earth Is Square blog.
This story was also covered in this article. For more information, and to see the video, head on over to the Earth Is Square blog.
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