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Tiny GPS spy in your pocket keeps track
A COMPANY CALLED QSTARZ has just unveiled a tiny portable GPS tracker, which it claims will not only be able to show you where you are and where you’re going, but also tracks your trip so you can upload your travel map to a blog.
The 60 x 40 x 7 mm BT-Q1300 travel recorder apparently includes the latest GPS chipset MTK with 66-CH performance and can log up to 200,000 travel points on its 4MB memory. The company boasts that its diminutive size makes it the world’s smallest travel recorder and its supporting software purportedly allows users to customise their travel log in three different ways (although the press release doesn’t actually specify what ways these might be).
For those whose partners (or more likely, mothers) want to keep track of them, the device can apparently beam a user’s travel path straight to Google Earth. They call it Geotagging. We call it neurotic.
And not to worry, if you end up drinking too much and forgetting where you took those embarrassing photos of yourself getting sleazy with the locals... or regurgitating the contents of your stomach onto the bar, the travel recorder reckons it can help you remember where exactly you were – thus ensuring that you never show your face there again.
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I dont see anything special or new about this. As far as I can see it doesnt let your position be monitored remotely it just records where you have been. You then can upload and analyse that when you get to a PC. Big deal. Garmin and others been doing it for years with sports watches.
Also it doesnt seem to have any sort of display so you cant use it stand alone to see where you've been or to retrace a route or to get back to the start of a route.
Maybe the application is for tracking of objects/employees but it had better be cheap.
Perfect for road pricing.

Now that all of Manchester's town centre is going to be a congestion charge area, whether there is congestion or not, means that soon we will all be paying even more to drive our cars.

Little by little.
I heard Bill Gates and other rich people have GPS tracking devices implanted in them... to fight kidnapping.
I could use this on my key ring so I can find the damn things when I've put my keys in the wrong place.
There are at least 40 companies who sells such devices, why on earth would one mention sony?
these things get small and cheaper as you know they will... 


The good: no more lost luggage-ever!

The bad: partner / boss knows EXACTLY where you are, at all times

The ugly: Credit cards/ store cards/ most retail goods come with one attached or embedded.
The benefits far outweigh the Trendlinness. The QSTAR will be a godsend for finding big hair. Whenever I have a bad hair day I just think of these big hair people. But a GyPSy TamTam such as is this is on spot for Hip Hop, indeed! It is no secret that many big hairs, reloosed from rehag, whilst contracted to wear a particular tool of trade, can become unraveled at the end of their tether! Especially, if getting in a bullying cow row over all the things they've lost; they mind. Now if they bespeak out of turn, we can have a Savile row, rabid response team on their heels, before a hassenpfeffer stew gets out of hand. Whilst we accept that paparazzi admin is stressful, the subsequent behaviours of celebrity cannot be justified as flights of fancy, bark at the moon. Celebrity Geotracker. Just buy it, if you're somebody. It will suit you to a tea, and Heaven knows we may not be so bloody miserable knowing where you are. Remember: "fish like cheese..... sometimes, some cheese like fish". Sharon! Where the keys to the Hurley Davidsin?
Sony has the same kind of device for Photographers, it is pretty cool, give you the position on the maps, and allow you to remember where it was taken.

try www.deepviewer.com , it uses GPS coordinate already.

who?
So, how long will it be before our benevolent governments require all of us to carry one of these?

There never has been a technology that the government has not misused.