So hello! Let me first introduce myself.. I'm Haris a.k.a. Bosnyan and I just started with a study called IBMS (International Business and Manegement Studies for the curious ones) and have this project in my first year called Young Entrepreneurship, where I have to start a company with a group of other students and at the end of the year this should be a running company with a profit (hopefully.) So we were brainstorming about what could be a useful product, that hasen't been on the market yet and then I came with the idea of producing a GPS tracker which allows you to track down your bike/scooter, since there are A LOT of them here in the Netherlands. There are obviously challenges that lie with the product, one which is of course the software aspect.
So my questions are:
- Is it possible to find a gps tracker/tag with your smartphone with the proper software/app?
- Is this possible just based on software or is an external reciever nesessary for example?
- How accurate will it be?
- Can you do it and if so, are you interested to do it for me (with a cash reward of course) in the near future around beginning 2014?
Thanks a lot in advance! :good:
Product idea:
A GPS tag for your bike/scooter
It’s easy to see that the people of the Netherlands largely rely on the bike and/or scooter as their means of traveling. With so many bikes, especially in Amsterdam people losing their bikes is a daily occurrence. Either by getting their bike stolen or simply not being able to find it. The same goes for scooters. Although you’re not likely to lose your scooter by not being able to find it, there is a reasonable possibility for it to get stolen. That’s where such a GPS comes in handy, because you will be able to track down your bike or scooter you lost. You will be able to track down your bike or scooter with an app you download on your Android or iOS device. First you get a map perspective which shows where you are and your bike or scooter is. As you get closer to your vehicle the map zooms in further and further until you’re close enough for a radar map to pop up for you to find your vehicle as accurate as possible
Ultra GPS Logger - the Ultimate GPS-Loggar.
♦Ultra·GPS-Logger ♦ is the best GPS-Tracker i know so far.
It's also got a high accuracy and many good features! :laugh:
Have a nice day.♥
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Earn money with your phone through wifi and phone cell towers UK included.
Includes USA
Ever wondered how you could transform the miles you travel into cash in your account. Well, now you can with Navizon rewards.
When you use Navizon with a GPS device, every Wi-Fi access point and Cell tower that you pass by will be logged and turned into points on your account.
If they are discovered by you (If you are the first one to map them)
15 points for each cellular tower
3 points for each Wi-Fi access point
If they have already been mapped by someone else
(except in a few areas)
1 point for each Wi-Fi access point
2 points for each cellular tower
Once you have 10,000 points, you can redeem them for a reward, and $15 will be wired to your Paypal account (minus the Paypal fee in the amount of $0.29).
Note: You may also choose to redeem a reward for a free upgrade to Navizon Premium.
The idea is fairly simple: some users who have GPS enabled phones, or a standalone GPS device map the wireless landscape (ie. the location of Cell towers and Wi-Fi Access Points) wherever they go, so that other users who don’t have GPS will be able to use a positioning system that works independent of GPS.
Instead, location is achieved by triangulating those same Wi-Fi and/or Cellular signals, whose location is now known thanks to the "mappers."
Like in every community, there are the people who do the work and others who benefit from it.
So users who don't want to map any points, but still want the full featured version of Navizon, need to buy it.
But the money is not going in our pockets, it is going in the pockets of those who make Navizon possible, by mapping the wireless landscape wherever they go.
Register here
Happy Money making
Sounds nice, but nothing for me.
I am wondering how that company earns money with this.
[ElCondor] said:
Sounds nice, but nothing for me.
I am wondering how that company earns money with this.
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You can check out the FAQ here.
Also works on other devices to such as WM, Blackberry, Series 60, etc.
regards,
Rich
Just to update...........
Have already started earning my points, with just a quick drive to town(Bristol).
Bloody love this app )
Another update......
Got my First £15 back today, 2 weeks 1day after installing the app, i'de say that was pretty good for FREE!! lol
ElCondor said:
Sounds nice, but nothing for me.
I am wondering how that company earns money with this.
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Once the data is mature (complete) enough, they will then be able to market and sell it to other comapanies who might find it cheaper than implementing a full GPS-based solution.
...sullen curved heads.
And the larger part of us sadly realized that we all have been submitted to a deeply manipulative plan aimed solely to maximize profits under the solaceous umbrella of the motto "greed is good", (R. Reagan) and the previous generous ground, the rich cornucopia of freeware, of simple direct links to downloads with
no strings attached grew bare and dry, prompting only the fruits of defaced unshamed methods of soliciting pay, pay, PAY (there are various simple, easy forms of payment: paypal, payfoe, credit card indebted card and the lot.
And the usual real life-deprived sons of beaches continued to launch their worms, and virus, and trojan horses and the like and the younger generation begun to use the net just as a date database tool, ignoring and despising the manifolded worlds it also produces for those who have the persistence to surf in orderly sequence... And a large slice of them young blokes gave up and started to look back in anger and search for other skills and entertainment.
Too much of a good thing seems to be too much for our generation to cope with. Hèlas!...
Well, there was a time for M$ to use and abuse its followers, then big develloping companies discovered telecommunications and entered it, inspired by the very same spirit: You will buy our products, and use them the way we constrain you to, and you'll mantain this status as long as we make good profits -- now and then we will keep you under scrutiny and tight surveillance with
tools such as all the KBs and service packs and upgrades and then our net.frameworks basis will provide support to devellopers and other enlightned individuals, while at the same time sending back to our premises individual informations about uses and contents you poor retarded intend to make use of, against our directions, and we will send bsod to your little machines, which today you proudly boast about, but tomorrow we will obsoletize and push you
to spend again your good nickels on some more mhz, or fpm, or any tremendously important benchmark "new" value...whatever we find a good target to aim at.
Then appeared Google and looked sideways and realized there was a good trunk almost unexplored: Linux. And then Android and the promise of stable flexibility and a load of luring applications to market and sell, sell,SELL. You will buy the device we advertise and will pay not only for your phone calls. The minute you activate it, the countdown clock begins to run deducting cents over cents from your meager deposits...
And as time goes by they all begun to weight if their joy of users, consumers in fact, so expensive as it was becoming, if really balanced the economic sacrifice it entailed -- and little, by little started to fold their tends and silently flying away.
And then the masters realized: « That was a funny and profitable game, now we have to find another!...Keep them smiling, keep them distracted with their long hi-tech references and... keep them spending, of course!».
And one of us left his ecstasy and Solomon-like dictated: «Symbian what?! and Android which?! Ah, come on people, 'Rasbadas' is the way! The only one, the best!!! I am buying the "Zhark GT Xanadu 3000": the champion device!!!»..
I'm sorry to occupy your space. Erase it if you will. Regards, HN
Not a single regulation violated, pretty cool if you ask me:
Built by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (otherwise known as the WASP) is a flying drone that has a 6-foot wingspan, a 6-foot length and weighs in at 14 pounds. The small form factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle allows it to drop under radar and is often mistaken for a large bird. It was built from an Army target drone and converted to run on electric batteries rather than gasoline. It can also be loaded with GPS information and fly a predetermined course without need for an operator. Taking off and landing have to be done manually with the help of a mounted HD camera. However, the most interesting aspect of the drone is that it can crack Wi-Fi networks and GSM networks as well as collect the data from them.
It can accomplish this feat with a Linux computer on-board that’s no bigger than a deck of cards. The computer accesses 32GB of storage to house all that stolen data. It uses a variety of networking hacking tools including the BackTrack toolset as well as a 340 million word dictionary to guess passwords. In order to access cell phone data, the WASP impersonates AT&T and T-Mobile cell phone towers and fools phones into connecting to one of the eleven antenna on-board. The drone can then record conversations to the storage card and avoids dropping the call due to the 4G T-mobile card routing communications through VOIP.
Amazingly, this was accomplished with breaking a single FCC regulation. The drone relies on the frequency band used for Ham radios to operate. Not wanting to get into legal trouble with AT&T and T-Mobile, they tested the technology in isolated areas to avoid recording phone conversations other than their own. The duo play to discuss how to build the WASP at the DEFCON 19 hacking conference.
http://news.yahoo.com/men-build-small-flying-spy-drone-cracks-wi-172803720.html
Let it hack my g2x, my phoe will probably knock it down when it reboots, or gps will take so long to lock up the drone will run out of juice.
That thing is a felony arrest waiting to happen.
G2X CM7
Wow. I'm more frightened of the gov't using it than hackers. Pretty incredible innovation, though. Thx for the link!
Also, I think it'd be nice to have one thread that doesn't have a bitter G2X user segue any topic into how much they hate their phone. FFS!!
Nice! I want one!
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Probably not breaking any laws as long as they are given permission to record the conversations (which are their own so far).
I have a swiper drone at work for testing our surveillance equipment. Never really thought about this application though.
Thanks for posting an interesting story. I rarely even open the general forums these days because it seems like every thread is "hate my phone," "should i trade," or "gb update brick." Nice change of scenery.
1984 Big brother comming our way
I'm working on a project for work, and I'm not sure if the product I'm looking exists, at least yet anyways. I'll tell you what I'm looking to do, and hopefully the community can let me know if this kind of device is out yet, or if it will be released soon.
I work at a hospital and I primarily provide training and support to Physicians for our Electronic Medical Record. One of our challenges has been getting physicians engaged and interested in learning about upgrades/changes/optimization and such pertaining to our medical record. We may fix a problem that they've been complaining about for a year...but then it's very difficult to let them all know that it's been fixed without tracking each of them down to tell them. We're not talking about a dozen physicians either, it's probably closer to 400 or so.
I spoke with a few other people and we came up with the idea of basically creating an electronic bulletin board that can be wall mounted in the doctors lounge, and they can use it to look at recent tip sheets, patch notes, lesson plans, etc, that we post about our EMR. I'd also like to add some links to the more reputable medical journals, so they can use it for something more than just reading our tip sheets.
I feel that Android would be the best platform for what we're trying to do, especially since it makes it easy to share and email items to accounts, that way if a Doc doesn't have time to review it in the lounge, they can at least email the document to themselves for later review.
I'm looking for an All-in-one device, a flat panel touchscreen display running android, and the display needs to be between 32 and 50 inches.
If I could get it done for 1500 or less, that would be great, although I pretty much have the approval to use up to 5000 in capital. I know there are several devices coming out that are integrated with Google TV, but few if any of the ones I've seen have a capacitive touch screen.
Does anyone know of a current or upcoming device that could meet my needs?
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Being a big fan of Android, I really do hate to say this, but I don't know you're going to find what you're looking for. From what I've seen lately, there have been fairly successful pilot deployments of iPads + AppleTV touchscreen bulletin boards in the medical sector, but without some serious serious hacking, I don't think you're going to see this in the Android arena. I don't think I've even seen any android device larger than 11" screens... On the plus side, that does sound like a new break-in type of market if any of the major product ODMs are paying attention
L4T
What about this!? asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101
Hopefully this is the correct forum for this...
This is right up the XDA alley. Here's a cool new application for innovative developers. It could change the world for consumers, retailers, various industries, police depts, the military... It's a quiet, tiny, robotic dragonfly with HD cameras and numerous sensors. Pretty exciting stuff and has the potential for several new industries and many new jobs.
It can be used for gaming, to guard your home (inside or outside), keep an eye on your crazy neighbor, monitor your child's bike ride to school, real estate agents, auto dealerships, etc. The applications are almost endless. Apparently your android or iphone smartphone controls it.
They're selling various prototypes starting at $119. A software developer kit is available to create your own application. They plan to use the money to make it even better (smaller, lighter, quieter, faster, more efficient). No doubt there will be a huge # of applications in the consumer market in the years to come.
I purchased one and can't wait to start playing with it. Unfortunately there's only a few more remaining...
http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly
Interesting. Is this legit ?
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Yeah, good luck with that. Consider it a tax write-off lmao.
Even to really get one, I'd imagine it wouldn't last long before a bird took it out.....or the gust from a strong fart blew it into the side of the house. You be better off mouthing s tiny camera in a tree somewhere.
If it was easy you'd of hired the guy at Home Depot to to it.
I'm bothered by the idea that it's being promoted as something to invade civilian privacy. Security is one thing, actively going out of your way to invade the privacy and property of others is different.
At 6", I can't believe it's not going to be noticed - wouldn't you notice an unusually large, weird-looking bug ? It's really the size of a bird if you watch it.
I can't imagine people not noticing and not calling the police over it - or simply destroying it if someone decided to use it for that purpose.
Commendable and interesting otherwise, though I also have concerns about flight abilities and stability and such - but would be interested to know more about its capabilities in that regard.
help
Just got the S3, should I have waited for the S4!
Wow that looks so cool but I would love to see it follow me down a downhill track without hitting a tree but still really cool I may think of getting one
skydragon team
i want one
When I want an app to fly I'll make sure to keep this in mind lol