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“Not all who wander are lost”

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

The eTrex Venture

The NY Times Co. spends a lot of time thinking about GPS. To wit, Ted Conover chimes in with another article about the ultimate navigational technology:

The problem, to me, is that navigation by GPS changes the nature of car travel: It makes it seem all about numbers (distance to destination, time to destination) when I’m trying to preserve a sense that travel is also about something else.

Surprisingly esoteric stuff from a usually pragmatic paper.

Earlier: Rome-ing the streets.

Near Fields, in far-away places

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Nokia 3220

Gridskipper opines on the Near-Field Communication Oyster card in London that could soon be used to pay for more than just Tube rides. The same technology, that Nokia recently put in a prototype 3220, recently made it into the pages of the Economist (sub. req.), appluaded as the way to a “wallet phone” future, in which your cell phone replaces that hunk of cow hide in your pocket:

This means that an NFC-capable mobile phone can potentially function as an Octopus card in Hong Kong, a Suica ticket in Japan, and an Oyster card in London. Not many people would require such flexibility, admittedly.

Yeah, but we would.

The Great Bag Debate

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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We've been searching for a new bag lately, and in so doing we've come across one of the highest profile debates of the Indy Travel world. Backpack or duffel? Carry-on or checked? Straps hanging every-which-way ... [Continue reading this entry]