The 'sat nav' that works indoors to steer you through maze-like shopping centres (and it can even he

[Jazzy]

Now there really is no excuse for getting lost in the supermarket - a German scientist has designed a sat-nav specifically for finding your way through large buildings.



The app downloads a 3D model of the buidling, then measures walking speed as a user moves through the building - so can offer 'sat nav' style functions without needing to connect to a satellite.#

Similar ‘satnavs for shopping malls’ are being created by companies around the world, including Google and Nokia.



Engineers funded by the German government, have designed an interior GPS-style system that can be operated from an everyday smartphone.



Project manager Harald von Rosenberg got the idea from visiting a vast local 'megaplex shopping mall'.



He said: ‘I thought, 'wouldn't it be helpful if at such moments the smart phone could quickly shift to an interior space navigator and point the way through the rows of shops and stairwells.'‘



The project designed a chip able to register how fast and how far the user is walking - and work out direction, so it can offer precise 'navigation' information without having to contact a satellite, or even a mobile phone network.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...maze-like-shopping-centres.html#ixzz1urtLNQa8



I want one of these! What are your thoughts on this?

 

[Evil Eye]

Is that thing running Windows?



Err... great for people who can't read maps and continuously get lost... I guess...