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I get a kick out of seeing “new” products that I’ve either seen concepts of years ago or actually designed at some point in my career. The recent wrist-mounted computer is one such product (the new Eurotech concept – Link<\/a>; my old concept – reLink<\/a>). Now here’s another, the Magellan Roadmate<\/a> navigation system which looks to me like my 2nd year ID student concept from 1992-93:<\/p>\n That’s some old design there. Back then the project was all about exploring the *amazing* new technology of CD’s! Well, it was new to our professors. I’ve just realized that I get a lot<\/em> of blank stares. That would include my recent RadTag\/blogject device<\/a>, I suppose (I’m seeing a GPS trend here). For the longest time, I’ve had this really cool idea for a clock. Maybe I should try that instead.<\/p>\n via Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n {Top Image Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Thales Navigation, Inc.; Bottom Image \u00c2\u00a9 1992-2006 C. Sven Johnson}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I get a kick out of seeing “new” products that I’ve either seen concepts of years ago or actually designed at some point in my career. The recent wrist-mounted computer is one such product (the new Eurotech concept – Link; … Continue reading ![\"NavmasterW\"](\"pic\/NavmasterW.jpg\")
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\nMy suggestion that you could load navigational maps into this waterproof, handheld device and have a GPS-overlaid icon on a multimedia screen showing images and videos of, for example, harbor entrances and exits, got mostly blank stares. It wasn’t exactly the music CD player the profs expected.<\/p>\n