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Time for a Beer?

i am fartacus writes: "Good news for thirsty beer lovers in a strange town, this will help you find the nearest pub... hmmm beer .... and help you stay on time. " The gist of this is that it's a watch with a GPS transmitter that can show you the distance and direction to the 4 nearest pubs. Ingenious!

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  1. Exportation... by mirko · · Score: 4, Interesting
    There are obviously countries in which this product won't be possibily exported : These are the countries which somehow forbid the consumption of alcohol or just its advertising.
    For example, in France, you can't just advertise for Health-hazardous stuff, so you see, this is not only a matter of talibanism.
    But if they added the possibility to just find whatever with this, I'd be interested, especially for
    • gas stations (which'd seriously help people driving to their tank limits),
    • garbage or ashtrays to incitate people to keep their environment clean
    • hairdresser (if coupled with a camera and face-recognition software : "Mirror, am I the most beautiful ?")
    • coffeee shops or brothels, for the Amsterdam tourists (don't mod if you've not been there)
    • surprise option for the tourist (takes at random a monument, a museum or a pub)
    • CowboyNeal... oups.. it is not a /. poll but it could actually help to be able to point towards other similarly featured devices to quickly find somebody lost in a crowd... But wait. I don't want this to become a new kind of digital id / (aka tracking / spying / bug)...
      So, let's just do it the old fashioned way : ask people, you may even make friends :-)
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