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U.S. Army along with Picatinny Arsenal, N.J, is ready to deploy the Excalibur, a first-of-its-kind Global Positioning System-guided artillery shell, in Kuwait (Iraq). Under development for 8 years by Raytheon and 3 years by Raytheon and BAE Systems, Excalibur is going to be deployed following official results from current final-stage testing.

At the recent Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Winter Symposium, Raytheon program official Everett Tackett said:

In a late November U.S. Army test at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., (13 out of 14) Excalibur rounds fired up to 24 kilometers away hit within 10 meters of their targets, an unprecedented circular error probable for cannon artillery. Conventional artillery has a CEP of about 70 to 100 meters at 10 kilometers, 200 to 300 meters at 30 kilometers.

The Army is believed to fire Excalibur Block 1a-1 rounds from its 155mm howitzer and the latest XM 777 lightweight 155mm howitzer, which was initially grounded in October with the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

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If you are looking to lower your scores and want to improve your overall performance, 3D Golf Course is the best solution, a technology that makes you want to improve your golf game and emphasize your individual strengths. Yes, it is simple, easy-to-use, and incredibly powerful. With the use of 3D Golf Course, you are not just provided with the new perspective and intelligence to your course strategy, but also your golf game is taken to the highest improvement. So, 3D Golf Course has especially been designed for serious golfers and professionals who are looking to lower their scores and improve their overall performance.

Using robust Trimble RTK (Real Time Kinematic), GPS hardware and patented LASN (Local Area Spatial Network), the golfer will be provided with amazingly precise range distances. Huge amounts of field-testing have brought about outstanding geodetic results, profiling horizontal accuracies of “+/- 1 inch” (range from cart to hole). This sort of GPS accurateness is claimed to enable hyper precise ‘play by play’ analysis, and augmented accuracy for player statistics.

With the use of high-resolution imagery data, you can without difficulty create incredibly precise topographic, 3D terrain and imagery models of each course. Each course is claimed to be aerial photographed, GPS field surveyed and geoprocessed to the highest possible horizontal and vertical mapping accuracies; in this way increasing the finest topographic, DTM - DEM (Digital Elevation Models), and the finest 3D maps ever created for the golf industry.

Within the 3D Golf Course environment, each hole can be viewed, navigated and identified at the touch of the screen. This state-of-the-art 3D perspective view enables the golfer to evaluate, strategize and commit to the premeditated golf approach using, geo-specific, high-resolution terrain and imagery data. There are unlimited options for the golfer. Like they have the capability to view the whole course in a map (”top view”) perspective and more outstandingly, the golfer are enabled toggle to a 3D layout (3 Dimensional [x, y, z] - GPS - Latitude, Longitude, Elevation).

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ShoZu has come up with its latest version called ShoZu 3.1. So, if your SymbianOS or Windows Mobile phone gives support to GPS, ShoZu is capable of automatically tagging uploads with the GPS co-ordinates. Or if you are consisted with a Flickr map set up, your GPS-tagged photos will automatically emerge on your map!

ShoZu now is consisted with lots more ZuCasts than ever. The latest ZuCasts is included with news from MSNBC and Sky News, plus updates on TV shows such as Desperate Housewives and Lost. The latest version of ShoZu has got more destinations this time.

It is consisted with many more Share-It destinations to opt from, comprising Windows Live Spaces, YouTube and Pikeo. Besides, unlike earlier, ShoZu now claims to give support to more than 130 of the most popular phones available, with more models being integrated all the time.

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Who does not want to reveal the hidden treasure of stars in the sky above? How would you feel when you get a revolutionary handheld device that makes use of state-of-the-art GPS technology and claims to put the knowledge of an expert astronomer in the palm of your hand! Yes, of course, you will go wacky!

So, without waiting here is the SkyScout that makes all that possible by making use of GPS technology, with point and click ease to at once spot thousands of stars, planets, constellations and many more spread in the sky. To make them out, you just have to point the SkyScout at any star in the sky and click the “target” button, the SkyScout will at once tell you what object you have been gazing at.

Not only this, if you want to locate any star or planet, simply make selection of the object’s name as of the menu and follow the directional arrows using the viewfinder. And as soon as you are on your target SkyScout is here to tell. Isn’t that easy! But this is not the end, once an object has been targeted by you, the real fun is started. The SkyScout is included with entertaining and educational audio and text info, comprising facts, trivia, history and mythology regarding our most popular celestial — objects.

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Before I talk about Pioneer’s AVIC-S2, let me tell you about its earlier-released AVIC-S1, which is a Windows CE-powered Pioneer GPS receiver that is apparently one of the first from the company that boasts of incorporating integrated Bluetooth. Discussed on 8th April 2006 by engadget.com, the AVIC-S1 is a “portable” model that is; it can be ported from vehicle to vehicle, rather than on your geocaching expeditions that sport a 320 x 240 touchscreen, SiRF III chip for greater accuracy, and what appears to be 2GB of flash memory preloaded with European maps.

Not only this, the AVIC-S1 also allows you to dial on your mobile phone using Bluetooth any of the built-in points-of-interest (POIs). Apart from that there are a range of 17 guidance languages that claims to help you refresh on the native tongues while you explore the continent.

Now lets talk about AVIC-S2, a followup to AVIC-S1 GPS receiver. The AVIC-S2 is claimed to be built upon the S1’s 3.5-inch touchscreen, SiRF Star III GPS, Bluetooth, SD slot, and 2GB of on-board memory by delivering an MP3 player & optional TMC traffic receiver.

Nothing seems to make AVIC-S2 different from the AVIC-S1, but up to now the stand-alone sports I have got to know is going to be above and beyond that of the AVIC-S1 is an MP3 player and an optional traffic receiver, with TMC variety traffic receiver. Apart from that it is going to be connected to the AVIC-S2 using its own car cradle, connecting to pins on the back of the S2.

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Sometimes I get really upset to know when I am not able to find sufficient info of the product, which I am going to talk about. I tried a lot to dig out additional info, but either the language of the linked site is Greek to me, or the source is itself not able to stumble on enough info, so I have to live with the rest at last. This time too I have got little info of the upcoming Celrun FDN-2700, for which you don’t need to be on your heels as this is your usual South Korean gadget that boasts of integrating all under a 7″ inch LCD.

The latest Celrun FDN-2700 is not expected to be rolled out in North America, but no need to be worried, as I am here to make you acquainted with its features. Let’s check it out here: the Celrun FDN-2700 claims to be consisted with your DMB receiver, TPEG traffic info receiver, multimedia player, and no need to say GPS navigation system, too. Besides, it is also claimed to give support to PIP (picture-in-picture), contains USB ports, gets SD cards and a built-in GPS receiver, and last but not the least it is sprinted on a 400MHz processor.

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NXP Software recently announced to showcase its state-of-the-art swGPS SnapSpot technology at PMA’07. The groundbreaking technology boasts of allowing a digital camera to capture the geographic coordinates of an outdoor location in the time needed to take a picture.

SnapSpot claims to make available an easy technique for geo-tagging images, providing users with latest and exciting ways to search, share, and view their ever-growing photo collections. Besides, it can be attained with a least integration to the camera’s hardware BoM cost.

SnapSpot, taking a new approach to GPS geo-tagging, boasts of solving the tribulations of conventional GPS approaches, which are mostly obtrusive, sluggish and power-consu-ming. SnapSpot technology prevails over these complexities by unraveling the capture and processing of the GPS signals. The capture process is quick and swallows minimal power, making it perfect for a digital camera.

The captured data can then be transmitted to a computer where the SnapSpot client, working with the SnapSpot server, calculates each outdoor position fix in some seconds. The computed location can then be utilized to tag the linked image, enabling it to be searched and viewed through a myriad of photo applications, digital maps and aerial views.

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If you want to keep track of assets for theft recovery or fleet utilization or want to follow a loved one on a trip, here is the eye that makes all this possible with its tracking potential. Recently a division of Activator Systems Inc called ASI Wireless came up with its three latest All Eyes Locator solutions, known as All Eyes Auto, All Eyes Fleet and All Eyes Portable. That not only let you keep track of your loved one, but also keep track of assets for theft recovery or fleet utilization.

Doesn’t matter the requirement is for 1 or 1000 units, All Eyes location-enabled asset management is claimed to be consistent and precise to fulfill the needs. Landmarks, Alerts, Geofences, Speed Stop / Start data can be availed for user configuration and management. Flexible configuration enables All Eyes to cater a large variety of demanding deployment and operational needs. Configurations are able to be brought to a change on the fly by “over the air” commands.

All Eyes is a GPS-enabled asset location solution, which is integrated with proven wireless data technologies and ASI’s proprietary data management backend to give safe, precise, well-timed asset location info and past reports to your computer or cell phone 24 x 7 x 365. Online Downloadable Reports, Security, Mapping, Cellular Phone Response, Efficient and Economical this is what the All Eyes about. With the ultra-modern GPS, GSM and GPRS technologies, All Eyes functions all through U. S and Canada.

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Research fuels technology, and superior technology leads to superior performance. And keeping that philosophy in mind Bose has come up with a new approach to automotive infotainment that is claimed to be easy, smart and driver-focused. Yes, the company has rolled out a new GPS-based in-dash infotainment system with comprehensive navigation and less complication. Yes, it is claimed by the company that with the system’s primary concentric knobs, users are allowed to select points of interest the same way they control entertainment options built-in with the Bose Media System.

The engineers at Bose seem to have spent some time to fine tuning the user edge with the Media System. A few of the additional highlights are the capability to keep 200 hours worth of music in its HDD-enabled memory, iPod connection, and bluetooth support.

Check out the complete list of Bose Media System’s features:

(1) Customized 5.1-channel surround sound Bose audio system
(2) iPod connectivity, with access via system display
(3) USB 2.0 input for portable mediauihjhbvg
(4) Bluetooth device scanning and pairing
(5) uMusic intelligent playback system
(6) USB 2.0 input for portable media
(7) 200 hours hard-drive capacity
(8) FM / AM broadcast radio
(9) Multi-format disc player
(10) XM satellite radio
(11) Navigation system

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An item on Navigadget.com caught my attention that claims a Danish firm called Empire North is about to come up with ID Sniper, a sniper rifle that boasts of implanting a GPS chip in your body from up to 1.1 Km away. Could it be so? I don’t believe it.

The website of Empire North claims:

It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.

As is maintained by Navigadget.com,

There are no GPS receivers so small that you won’t feel it if you get shot by one, it also has to shoot you with a transmitter - to broadcast where you are, and what about battery.

If anyhow it is done what I suppose is that first they will have to integrate a transmitter to do tracking, secondly the human body is mostly consisted of water, and GPS signals don’t go through water properly. So, lets wait and watch for this miracle to take place.

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