Product Ideas
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Wouldn't it be great if you could get a GPS with a personality? When you go around a corner, if you take it sharply enough, it will go "whee." Of course in an unemotional GPS standard tone.
Or a GPS with the personality of Marvin the Paranoid Android. "You can turn left here. Or right. I don't really care, what is the point?"
It might be fun if it had way-points built in and you've told it you're not really in a hurry: it could suggest brief detours. "Hey, let's stop for coffee and doughnuts! Turn right in 100 meters."
You could tell it how much time you have to waste.
Or, to give a route that only involves right turns.
chezmax:Wouldn't it be great if you could get a GPS with a personality? When you go around a corner, if you take it sharply enough, it will go "whee." Of course in an unemotional GPS standard tone.
Or a GPS with the personality of Marvin the Paranoid Android. "You can turn left here. Or right. I don't really care, what is the point?"
It might be fun if it had way-points built in and you've told it you're not really in a hurry: it could suggest brief detours. "Hey, let's stop for coffee and doughnuts! Turn right in 100 meters."
You could tell it how much time you have to waste.
Or, to give a route that only involves right turns.
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Date: Thursday, 24 January 2008 06:02 am (UTC)Erm, no. For that sort of experience I have passengers. Trying to guide me using a printed out map that is not up to date. "Turn right.. oh, there's no street there. Turn anyway!"
And, alas, some GPS devices these days do suggest pit stops at chain restaurants.