Google’s (Not So) Secret Strategy (7)
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Let’s say you’re an average 20 billion dollar company, with a sparse webpage and a search box. And since you’re swimming in money and ideas, you like dreaming up different ways to revolutionize the Internet. For instance, maybe one day you got tired of typing “Mapquest”, so you invented a new method to combine satellite and plane images into a seamless pyramid of tiles, and then leveraged your computing power to make them zoomable in ...
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I loves me some Sherlock-esque dedeuction. I hope he's right.
颠覆iPhone的谷歌手机应用：Enkin，可被利用发动恐怖袭击！ (1)
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玩过谷歌地球的朋友往往有黑客帝国的初体验，谷歌的地球世界是真实的吗？我们是真实的吗？Enkin给我们答案： “Enkin”是一个全新的手持导航概念。它显示基于本地的内容，以一个独特的方式，整合现实以及地图一样的陈诉。它联合了GPS，方向感应传感器，3D成像，即时视频，多种Web服务，一个新颖的用户界面，直觉和轻巧的手机设备导航系统。 ——ENKIN.NET Enkin是本次谷歌Android手机操作系统应用大赛初赛的50个胜出作品之一，并且被很多博客，媒体追捧，是最有希望夺魁的Android应用。 它的构思来自于军事，但是在民用方面，其革命性超过了iPhone： GPS蓝牙接收器，USB摄像头，USB指南针和加速计，iPhone用加速计来进行屏幕的横向和纵向的切换，Enkin用来确定更加复杂的立体方向。 1.在平面地图模式下，标注地名。 2.标注好图书馆，医院，单轨铁路三个地名，切换到虚拟飞行地图模式。注意，自动计算距离，如果这个应用是装在导弹上… 3.切换到视频模式下的图书馆，医院，单轨铁路(点击小图可以看到大图)。 4.在虚拟飞行地图模式下在线搜索地名。 5.在平面地图模式下把出发地和目的地拖到相应的输入框。 6.在飞行地图模式下显示从出发地到目的地的驾驶线路图。 更多的请看视频： 评论：2008年06月21日, Hong Xiaowan: Android手机可以作为武器的导航系统。版权许可请查看关于本站。
Enkin: digitized signage for your Android device (1)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Among the hopefuls for Google's Android Developer Challenge (which ended yesterday, by the way, so put down your pencils and turn in your papers) is this little gem, Enkin. Put simply, the navigation app's ace card is its "live mode," which combines a plethora of sensory data -- camera input, GPS, directional information, motion detection -- to show the user an augmented view of what they're actually looking at in their ...
