Tag: maps
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EggMap Lets You Zoom In By Squeezing
The iPhone brought us “Pinch-to-zoom”, but the EggMap is hoping to get us acquainted with “Squeeze-to-zoom” instead. It’s a conceptual creation by Denes Sator, a product/industrial/graphic designer based out of Budapest, Hungary. And it consists of a flexible air-filled ball with a detailed map printed on it. In its normal state, you will have trouble…
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You Can Play Pac-Mac In Google Maps
April’s Fool is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for Google’s yearly tradition of making fun little pranks, and adding “features” to some of its services. This year, at least one of these features is the ability to run a fully-functioning game of Pac-Man right in your Maps window, even in your…
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Monochome Custom Prints the Map of Your Choice Onto Your Clothes
You can wear your heart on your sleeve and the map to the city on your, well, hips with Monochrome. It’s a new clothing line by data visualizer Rachel Binx that lets you pick which map you want to have custom-printed on the skirt. Monochrome isn’t limited to flare skirts since they also have a tank top, T-shirt,…
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You Can Explore The Colorado River In Google Street View
Some lucky Google employees (in partnership with American Rivers) have spent some time going down the Colorado river with their imaging equipment, this much is clear. Because it seems that you can now explore the famous waterway in all its glory from the comfort of your home. No need to spend on pricey helicopter tours,…
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Map², The Folding Zoomable Paper Map, Expands To Other Cities
We covered Map² over 3 years ago, and now they’re back in the news because they’ve expanded beyond London, with New York in the pipeline. The product is a good old paper map, like they used to make in the days before smartphones and like they still (unbelievably) make sometimes. Although this one’s got a…
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Woman Discovers Her Fiance’s Cheating Ways…On Russian Google Maps
Discovering that your significant other is messing around with someone else behind your back sucks. The silver lining is that at least you found out about it now rather than later. In Marina Voinova’s case, it was her fiance (now ex-fiance) who did some canoodling with some unknown, random chick. What makes her case different…
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iOS 6 Sees 29% Surge After The Release Of Google Maps
It was just last week that we were reporting on the return of Google Maps to the Apple App Store. In the article, we mentioned that a lot of people were still living with iOS 5 because of the absence of Google’s mapping solution on iOS 6. But few people had idea idea just how…
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Finally: Google Maps To Return To iOS!
The horse is dead and been beaten into a pulp, we know: Apple’s Maps application is awful. It was just two days ago that we were reporting on one of its more “entertaining” failings. It’s been all the more frustrating due to the continued absence of the reigning king, Google Maps, from iOS 6. That’s…
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Apple Fixes “Life-Threatening” Bug, But Could There Be More?
Apple Maps, found in all iOS 6 devices, is quite probably the company’s most infamous failure to date. It’s been plagued with glitches, bugs and general design flaws from the get go. The latest, perhaps most embarrassing hiccup comes courtesy of a few unfortunate motorists in Australia who got stranded while looking for the town…
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This Is The One Thing Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
Apple’s Maps application is garbage. Haha. We sure like to beat a dead horse, on the Internets, but we do it because some things stay funny even when they’re not. That is, they’re funny until someone makes a left turn off a bridge… But to be perfectly honest, the Maps application from Apple is very…