Google’s Project Tango: Five things you could do with a phone that maps your room

washingtonpost.com ^ | February 21 | Hayley Tsukayama

[BenLurkin]

Google is pushing into a new world of smartphone hardware, with a new prototype phone that can create a 3D-map of a room. The prototype phone , a 5-inch device codenamed Project Tango, was revealed on Thursday. Its sensors can read a room by tracking the motion of the device itself and simultaneously mapping the environment around it with “a quarter million 3D measurements every second.”

The company has added indoor maps to its mapping products before, but this project comes from the firm’s Advanced Technology and Projects group and takes that concept to an all-new level.

[SandwicheGuy]

Every one of these innovations are, to me ... just another way for someone to look at me and know about me.

You flatter yourself.

[GeronL]

Right, It is just hard to imagine why sane people would give maps of their homes to a gigantic conglomerate that has shown major support for the fascists

[ctdonath2]

Google’s MO is “know everything, that we may sell ads better”.

[Billthedrill]

Having an indoor map of the store in your hand could make shopping trips more efficient by leading you directly to the shelf you want.

Men shop that way. Women don't.

[BenLurkin]

Heck...getting lost at Home Depot is how you find out where everything is.

[TBP]

A little scary. Big Brotherish.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3