nsane.forums Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Personal navigation systems are about to get a lot more personal. Japanese engineers have created a prototype device that places GPS navigation technology into a pair of wearable, seemingly everyday, glasses. The prototype specs, which were unveiled at last months Wireless Japan 2010 expo in Tokyo, offer an insight into how future GPS navigation systems could work. The glasses, known as the 'Wearable Personal Navigation System', house a battery, a microcomputer, a magnetic directional sensor and a number of LED lights. To put the glasses to work on getting you to your destination, you would need to enter your destination using a computer. Once a walking route has been calculated and sent over to the glasses. The glasses have integrated LEDs postioned in a circular fashion around the frame. The LEDs, which are visible in a user's peripheral field of vision, will then change their color and placement in order to show which direction you should be walking. The engineers responsible for the glasses at the University of Electro-Communications' Nakajima Laboratory explained that navigation systems available today have a few problems that this prototype aims to solve. Current GPS devices--such as smartphones--require you to look down at a display while moving, instead of watching where you're going. With these glasses, you'd be able to look ahead instead of looking down. With a little more development and a sleeker design (maybe in sunglasses?) this product would no doubt have its place within any geek's gadget collection. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 it could have some good implementation in military :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 another win for the Japanese :win: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 6, 2010 Administrator Share Posted August 6, 2010 I'll buy ten. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 it could have some good implementation in military :rolleyes:more like number 1 tool gadget for blondes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 it could have some good implementation in military :rolleyes:more like number 1 tool gadget for blondes:lol:Got me in stiches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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