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GPS for GBA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-room-for-one-gadget-in-your-bag dept.

Grey Ninja writes "I just came across a preview for a new gadget that's going to be demoed at E3, which is a GPS and map attachment for your GBA. It should be mentioned that you can pre-order now and get $50 off. " I can't imagine very many useful applications for this, but it sure is nifty.

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  1. Re:you can't? by Seumas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that the GBA's GPS product is $250! It's a neat idea, but for that money I'll just go buy a dedicated GPS unit. It'll probably outlast my GBA and there will come a time when I won't care to tote my GBA around and play games on it anymore - whereas my GPS unit would probably have a constant place on my hip.

  2. Translation: by cperciva · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Grey Ninja writes " I just came across a preview for a new gadget that's going to be demoed at E3, which is a GPS and map attachment for your GBA.
    Grey Ninja writes "I work for a company which is trying to find suckers willing to buy our latest toy.
    It should be mentioned that you can pre-order now and get $50 off."
    If you pre-order now, you'll get $50 off. If you wait until after the release, the price will drop by $100 when we realize that this is useless junk which nobody wants to buy."
    I can't imagine very many useful applications for this, but it sure is nifty.
    Sounds like junk to me, but they paid for the advertising spot.
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  3. Re:Applications by toesate · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If the satellite can find them and tell them where they are, it can sure as hell tell *you* where they are!

    Maybe, maybe not. There are a huge set of assumptions if it can.

    One of the key challenge for the location based services (via mobile phone and/or gps) is the tedious management of access groups and permissions.

    It has to do with privacy issues essentially.

    A simple scenerio is - the owner of their location information have the full ownership on how they want their location information be shared, and with who.

    However, like many other services, location based services, for example, tracking, is usually done with a third party involved - acting like a proxy agent, and as such must have certain permission set from the owner of the location information.

    To make things more challenging, we can add another role, by having a guardian over the owner of the location information.

    And the quick question now is - who owns the location information? The owner of the location information or the guardian of the owner? There are no easy answers.

    Anyway - nowadays, knowing where the kids are is a _willing_ mobile phone call away.

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  4. PRICE? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $200? I can get a *VERY* nice GPS unit for a lot less.

    It seems to me that add-on gadgets for PDA's or the GBA should be *CHEAPER* than stand alone versions. They don't have to include the screen, buttons or in some cases a CPU.

    Why do add-ons cost *MORE*?

  5. Re:you can't? by metamatic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I could have a reliable GPS unit that was attached to my PDA and it still functioned as well as a handheld one I would love it.

    So buy a Garmin iQue.

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