Nokia today announced an update to its Nokia Maps application, with improved car navigation, enhanced pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, satellite images and a redesigned user interface.
Nokia’s mapping and navigation application features local content and world maps. Using vector maps by Navteq and TeleAtlas, Nokia Maps 2.0 covers over 200 countries, with over 70 of them navigable. Maps can be downloaded directly to devices or through a PC. Updated features in Nokia Maps 2.0 includes:
- Improved optional Car Navigation equals PND-level car navigation experience with faster routing
- Easy-to-use, updated User Interface features including a new navigation carousel with pre-defined navigation views – i.e. navigation, arrow, bird-eye
- Top-of-the-line navigation features: signposts, multi-stop route planner
– Optional pedestrian navigation efficiently walks users from A to B with visual guidance including information about the surrounding buildings, streets and parks and, if the device supports it, notifies the walking direction
- Nokia Maps 2.0 [...]
Original post by Mobiledia
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The Gadget: The Indiana Jones FX Whip is a soft toy whip made by Hasbro that has button-activated sound effects whicha re related to the Indy franchise. It’s also handy for keeping new interns in order (see video).
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Price: $20
Verdict: I’ve had this thing in my possession for a few weeks now, and I have yet to get bored with it. Sure, I may have a slight case of Peter Pan syndrome, but if you can’t find ways to enjoy this thing, I feel for you. Have a friend with a nagging girlfriend? Pull out the whip. Underlings out of control? Pull out the whip. BDSM freak? Well…pull out the whip.
The whip is made of a foam covered plastic base with an on off switch, belt strap, and button for initiating sound effects. The whip itself is a soft-stuffed tube about three feet long (let’s refrain from [...]
Original post by Adrian Covert
Remember how the Navy fired a missile at that spy satellite a few months ago and made it go boom in one shot? Not surprisingly, they were quite proud of their accomplishment—which is why they have compiled footage of their exploits in a series of tense behind-the-scenes moments. The video after the break even shows the missile leaving the ship on its way to a victorious rendezvous with the pesky satellite. It is a definite must-see for any fan of explosions and the work that goes into making those explosions happen.
[Wired]
Original post by Sean Fallon