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...information will be accessible instantly and from virtually anywhere. In an emergency, our health records will be available for remote medical consultation with specialists and perhaps even remote surgery. More and more devices will have access to the global positioning system, increasing the value of geographically indexed databases. Using GPS with speech-understanding software that is emerging today, we will be able to get directions from our WIDGETS as easily as we once got them at a filling station. One can imagine driving in the car, asking our WIDGET for the name of the nearest Thai restaurant, getting an answer...
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HANDSPRING VISOR $249 (deluxe model) This low-cost handheld uses Palm's operating system and comes with add-ons like the Geode GPS unit shown here...
...order it on Amazon with a few taps of his stylus. And if he decides he'll stop off at an Internet start-up in San Francisco's SoMa (South of Market) district, he doesn't need a map. His car, equipped with a global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver on its dashboard, gives him spoken, block-by-block directions...
Localization is the ability of a hand-held wireless to give you info geared specifically to where you happen to be. Some handhelds can do it now--by GPS or other technologies--but many more will be able to do it soon. Prompted by emergency-response concerns, the FCC is requiring all cellular carriers by late next year to be able to locate all their subscribers within...