Google to Show Off Indoor Mapping and other CES News
Google will be brining its "blue dot" to the buildings and floors of CES, the large consumer gadget show that launch Tuesday in Vegas. The folks at Slashgear say it works well.
The official CES showroom floor has all been indexed by Google Maps and can easily be pulled up and even saved to cache. No more mapping for the closest Hollister inside Mall of America instead get turn by turn directions to Samsung, NOKIA, and all the other booths at this years CES.
"Telenav® Unveils Scout™, the First Daily Personal Navigator for Smartphones, Computers, and Cars" - yep it remembers your favorite places, routes and will soon sync with your Ford.
Garmin has a few announcements, too.
A new Garmin app launched at CES lets Android users use their phone and data plan to add live services to compatible Garmin Nuvi GPS navigation devices. The Android app is free and is some data (weather) but traffic and other useful data cost a flat fee per year.
And there are a bunch of new Nuvis.
Magellan has some new consumer GPS devices and its first set of GPS watches for endurance athletes. My favorite feature on first look is a vibrating alarm. With a lot of noise you can't hear the audio ones, at least not the ones on my Garmin Forerunner.
Samsung has a bunch of wi-fi enabled cameras some of which include GPS for geotagging. All of them get 5 GB of cloud storage.
- Mashable
Cobra has a new "key fob" to help you keep track of important stuff (except your phone since that's what tells you the other thing is gone).
The folks at Cobra and Phone Halo have designed the Cobra Tag G5 to be aimed at the huge market of people who lose things. That’s pretty much everybody. You attach a key-fob device to any valuable you wish. If you walk away from your keys, purse, etc., your phone will alert you. There are GPS and fine-point Bluetooth tracking elements to the device. Attach the fob device to your keys, your purse, your laptop, your wallet, your kid’s stuffed toy. Anything you need to keep track of, you can.
Parrot announced new dashboard installed devices that act as a screen for all your mobile devices - phone, MP3, etc. One even has a real GPS in it for navigation.
- C|net
