Here's the aboriginal look, net wide, of the Upstart GPS-startup Dash, and their GPS system. What's special: Instead of affairs maps, and credibility of interests from a drive or beam memory, the Birr can cull down absolute time updates over WiFi or cellular data.
Let me spell it out for you: If you seek for a gas station, it allotment artery directions, but aswell the pump prices. If you seek for a cine theater, it allotment cine times. Your maps never get out of date, and your credibility of absorption database could be pulled from all the Google/Yahoo!/Yelp types of sites, giving you admission to a about absolute amount of...roadside Denny's.
And again there's cartage hive-mind thingy...(jump)
UPDATE: Whoops! Photo works now...thanks B.A. Kotaku.
Instead of alone advertisement accidents and affective you abroad from them, the Birr comes with actual cartage abstracts that goes hour by hour, per breadth of road. That agency it knows that artery 80's boilerplate acceleration is about, oh, 20 afar per hour at 5pm traveling appear the bridge. And in the average of the night, it should be 60.
But that doesn't annual for one time delays like abortion cartage and accidents. Say anyone application a Birr is ashore in some cartage like that. The Birr GPSs uses its cellular abstracts hotlink to abode arrest to the Birr axial server, which bliss down the beginning abstracts to added users in the area. So your Birr is allotment of a cartage alienated accumulate mind. Think about it&Mdash; Big cities are abounding of traffic, and aboriginal adopters, so this could absolutely work.
Dash GPS's connectivity aswell makes it appealing simple to program. You can use the touchscreen. Or you can baddest an abode on your PC, appropriate click, and baddest "Send to Dash" to move it anon to your device. In the audience I saw, this took about 1 second. (Below)
Another affair that afflicted me about Birr was how finer it searches for being you need. Eric searched for propane, and the GPS absorbed into Yahoo!, area it pulled aback after-effects for accouterments stores, and added places that didn't in fact accept the chat propane in the store's title. The web interface is tweakable, too.
One could bureaucracy Birr to amend RSS feeds with geographic data, for things like apartments on craigslist, or dog parks.
The screens actuality are from a ancestor device, so the UI has a continued way to go afore it starts shipment in aboriginal 2007. The accouterments is a little blubbery about the middle, but that's ok because this isn't meant to be a pocketable GPS, because all that connect-licious wireless accessory inside.
PS, Cory D. and the EFF Gangstas: These guys are crazily pre-cautious if it comes to aloofness of breadth data, too. Pricing? Not yet.–Brian Lam
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