It has been quite sometime I visited here...Still some of you are asking me to update on the India Trip Report 2008 and I will try my best in coming days...
Actually many things happened for past 3 or 4 weeks...For Some of you know and some do not.
For the ones..who don't:
I have switched Job. At a Different company, Working on Different things and with Different groups of people With Different Tools and all....ie there are so many "differents" compared to my previous one. As it was a change during the recession, change from a place where I was well settled and changing to a type of work which will be new to me...you can guess ..I was apprehensive and sentimental about leaving the place where I had memories of 8 long years. But then as they say sometime or other you have to embrace changes and see and try it out. So I did. Can only wish for Better!
My today's post or sharing is on a very different subject though. It is about my 6th sense...(Premonition?) and to combat it, it is about a FEATURE which I miss in my handheld GPS.. I doubt ( I am not aware of it atleast) if this simple GPS feature is available in any other models. Maybe it exits for highend models. I don't know. What I am looking for is, it shall WARN/BEEP me at a predefined (user fed) location .I know there are systems which warn for radars, traffic conditions, sharp turns and on..but what about user getting the control of coordinates where to make it beep.
WHY?
Well.. 3 times out of last 10 drives back from work, I missed (or did near miss) a STOP sign. The same STOP sign..Yes The SAME. 1st was accidental, 2nd was coincidence..3rd was NOT...and something is telling me (that 6th sense) 4th will be also there! Weird feeling isn't it? Twice I was lucky once I got an angry Honk. Maybe it is the location of this sign, may be the time or maybe something "unexplained" every time I become oblivion of that approaching sign.... I wish my GPS would warn me whenever I am about to approach it!
A very simple firmware can do it I guess. This feature can be successful in so many day 2 day applications. You are traveling by a train and ask it to warn it when it is one station before your destined station...No need to put an alarm in your clock only to realize it is still 1 hr as train is running late ( a perfect real life example from my India trip). It is like directly being dependent on "space" domain rather than "time" domain. In today's busy and hustle bustle life wont you feel good if while driving you suddenly hear "Hello, you are within 0.5 mile of your best friend's place". Say whom you have not seen for many days...you might think why not drop for a cup of coffee. Or it can also Warn you "Attention, you are close to the place where "A person you want to avoid" usually hangs out". Wont you have a SMILE after day longs work if it says "You are approaching the place where you had your first Ice Cream with your first crush"..aka "Dil Chahata Hai" style. There wont be shortage of usage of this feature...I can say that for sure.
Bottomline:
"OUTSOURCE from Brain/Human Memory to The Firmware/Flash Memory of Handhelds". Let your Body and Brain ENJOY the benefits of offloading tasks.
When I shared this with a good friend of mine, he laughed off and then looked at me seriously asking "How many days more you are alone...When your Family will be back?". But I did not feel bad...Did Galileo ever..I wonder?
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Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with the fact that now I am working on Handsets and their success and acceptance in our everyday life is my company's ultimate goal!
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