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Time for a Beer?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the god-bless-technology dept.

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. An invention clearly ahead of its time by pheph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ofcourse we'd need a watch with a GPS to track where the 4 nearest bathrooms are

  2. Just a nit picking thing by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a GPS receiver, not a transmitter. GPS works passively by listening to the timing differences of time-encoded signals from up to 12 satellites at once (there are 24, but generally the most you'll be able to "hear" at once are 12). Here's the dummies guide to it.

    It is funny though how GPS is a basic technology, but every application of it is treated as some new discovery: i.e. I'm going to make a piece of software that has a database of all movie theatres, and when you have a GPS on your PDA it'll point you to the nearest theatre: Whoopee, I've developed a new theatre detector! Blah. As a sidenote: MapPoint 2002 is a very nice product. The breadth of information in it is astounding.

  3. Re:Not ready for prime time. by Aceticon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ability to track my house so I can find my way back home

    For a find home system i recommed a donkey or a mule. They can always take you home no mater how drunk you are. Sure, they're a bit out of fashion nowadays, and it's a bit hard to get them in Chrome-blue or Fire-red colors but:
    - They're 100% environment friendly
    - You can fuel them up by just leaving them in a grassy field for some hours
    - They come in a wide variety of grey/brown shades
    - You can fit two of them in a garage

    Furthermore, they have a long proven track record at taking drunk people home

  4. Re:but it would make for killer.... by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. A friend once dragged me out on a pub crawl after a trekky convention. I was the only one not dressed as a Klingon, StarFleet, Data (3 of them) or Vulcan.

    Furthermore, one of them constantly had out his tricorder:

    "High levels of antonioum-C indicate that a licensed establishment is somewhere in the vicinity. The phase-inducer indicates that there could be a "wine-bar" 200 yards south-east and a "public-bar" further to the north. Captain, what do you suggest?"

    And that was before they got drunk.......

    oh boy.