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Fun and Games With TomToms and Satcoms
Since rising to popularity, sat-nav (satellite navigation) technology has recently brought us much entertainment. Most prominent in the news have been the countless stories of car drivers trusting a touch too unthinkingly in the commands issuing from their dashboard. Take the main one, for instance, in regards to a woman plunging her �96k Mercedes in to the River Sence - perhaps, the clearest example you'll ever see of someone with an increase of money than sense. Then hirez studios can find the dozens of drivers who - to the continuing bemusement of wiser locals - have tried to cross a ford in the River Avon because "the voices told me to." One guy in New York even found himself driving into the path of an oncoming train.

Perhaps our fear that technology will one day rise up and kill us all isn't so far-fetched in the end? Already, it seems to be making the odd sneaky attempt.

But maybe it's a whole lot worse than that. GPS systems aren't just targeting the average person, these days. Apparently, they've begun upgrading their ambitions: in Wales, a whole village finds itself under siege. It isn't the only one, either. Several villages alongside the path to Bristol Airport have recently found themselves to be located in the helpless path of a satellite guided onslaught of heavy goods vehicles, their drivers apparently oblivious to the plans of our new GPS overlords. One village has even had to change the name of its main through road in a (probably) vain attempt at putting the sat-nav menace off its scent.

Still, let's not dwell on the coming technological apocalypse. After all, rich people driving into rivers isn't the only real entertainment the planet of GPS has to offer. In Britain, we now have the world's first "satcom", 230 Miles of Love. Set on the M6, an episode plays itself out as you drive, individual scenes being set off by landmarks along the way. One download to your tomtom, and you will be laughing completely to Carlisle. Or Catthorpe, if you are going in the contrary direction - you can find northbound and southbound versions, apparently.

As yet, there have been no reports of satcom listeners driving into ditches, though, so I wouldn't get your comedic hopes up too much. If by some improbability it proves to be more boring than the M6 itself, though, you could always go to Geovative.com and make your personal. Or perhaps just download a guided tour of somewhere more interesting when compared to a motorway, and ask your sat-nav to take you there. If get more info , it probably won't try to kill you along the way.

Finally, news reaches me of fun uses for GPS outside the car driving community. These will get you exercising!

What am I on about? Location-based gaming. Using handheld GPS units (mobile phones, say), an increasing number of people are taking to the streets to enact real life games of Pacman, among more original ideas. So, now the weather's improving, it isn't just your own GPS that's out to get you, it's everyone else's as well. And a bunch of hungry ghosts.

Great. I think I would be staying indoors this autumn.

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