Spatial Dynamics

In the third quarter of 2008, Garmin is planning on releasing the Nuvifone, a 3G smartphone designed with its own operating system with GPS navigation at its core. Finding technical details about the Nuvifone is difficult, so it’s rational to assume that development is still underway.
It offers some things not available on the iPhone such [...]

There was recently an article on CNN about a service called Trapster that allows users to share real-time locations of speed traps.

Subscribers are able to use the service using cellphones or PDAs and it has been integrated into Dash Navigation devices. Due to time sensitivity requirements, Trapster combines WiFi technology (provided by Skyhook Wireless) with [...]

Last month, I read this article in the Washington Post “Beating Traffic by Joining the Network” and it was remarkable to read about the “hive mind” in my local newspaper. I’ve heard of the concept in relation to "collective consciousness" in human behavior studies and the “wisdom of crowds” in economics; but the Washington Post [...]