Prediction time....

Right, a couple of weeks back, we were asked to predict a piece of technology we felt would improve, or begin to rise within the future. I was walking the other day with my Dad around Kinder Scout (If no-one knows were that is its the highest point in Derbyshire). I was thinking about the way we navigate in these sorts of areas, and how risky it can be, especially when the weather turns nasty.

Navigation systems are becoming more and more advanced by the day. Take the Tom Tom systems for example. I remember the first time we had a built in sat-nav in my Dads car, it was shocking. Turn here, turn around there, basically it was more beneficial to throw the bleeder away or less severe turn it off. Now we own a Tom Tom One, which provides the user with outstanding information about roads, traffic, even speed camera warnings.

Now what I was thinking was, how good would it be to have a photo realism navigation system, which showed where the person was geographically, but in a way which, even if it was night, the user could walk according to the photo directions on the navigation system. Almost as if you were walking in the screen. This way the user would'nt get into any trouble if the weather was poor, or if they were stuck in a remote place at night. Might save a few lives.

The closest we've got to this so far is Navmans new camera navigation system.



Nowhere near as advanced as I was talking about but the ability to take pictures of previous locations and place them on geographical co-ordinates on a map is impressive.

This ones clever also, the new generation of navigation in the USA.



This is basically a small version of a laptiop with awesome features. Realy clever use of information through a multimedia system.



I also like the new use of bluetooth and voice activation used on these systems, and the way these are moulding a path for future systems.