GeoPlace has an interesting article outlining a recent study on the merits of a honeycomb pattern for town planning, including a reduction in the costs of installing infrastructure.
Technabob has an interesting piece on a new idea for a GPS device that fits over the top of asthma inhalers, and logs the time and location of their use. The data can then be used to help identify triggers for asthma attacks.
And in other GPS-related invention news, dvice has a piece on a GPS equipped jacket that will help the blind navigate their way across town by providing haptic feedback on where they are heading, and voice recognition so the user can tell the jacket where they want to go next.
If you’re in the grip of royal wedding fever, and also happen to have a soft spot for laser scanning, then this post from LiDAR News should interest you. Westminster Abbey, where the royal wedding will be held, has been laser scanned and recreated in 3D, enabling a new smartphone app to be released that will give users a virtual tour of the 1,000 year old Abbey. All proceeds of the app are going to charity.
If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of LiDAR, but thoroughly anti-royal wedding fever, then a much more practical use of LiDAR is outlined over at the Taipei Times, where scientists are calling for its use in predicting seismic activity.
And, finally, for those smartphone users that care not for LiDAR, Royal Weddings OR abbeys, the Bing Blog has a little piece outlining Microsoft’s new photosynth app for iPhones and iPads (coming soon to Windows Phones), that allows you to snap photos at any angle, or from any perspective, and have them stitched together into a panoramic view, using Microsoft’s incredible Photosynth technology.
