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The Easy Walk service has been developed by Il Village, a firm in Turin in northern Italy. It is currently being tested by a group of 30 people from the Italian Blind Union who are providing feedback. The plan is for Easy Walk to be launched to blind and partially sighted people in Piedmont in the autumn.

Easy Walk uses a mobile phone that runs the Symbian operating system, a small Bluetooth GPS receiver,text to speech software called Talks (though rival products are also compatible) and a call centre that will operate around the clock seven days a week.

It requires just two dedicated keys on the mobile phone - one which, when pressed, tells the user their exact location including the house or building number and the other one alerts the call centre that the person needs assistance with navigation.

An operator will then call the blind person, find out where it is they need to go and stay on the line with them providing step by step instructions.

Easy Walk is the brainchild of Andrea de Paoli, Il Village’s technology officer.

This is a concept that Mr de Paoli refers to as having a “guardian angel” who makes sure that anyone using the system gets to where they need to go

Because Easy Walk uses digital maps, in theory the call centre staff would be able to provide guidance to a user anywhere in Europe.

The system has already been tested across the border in France and Switzerland.

You are so busy trying to figure out where you are, so you run over someone’s mailbox. Thankfully, your car camera recorded the whole nasty incident.

While that may be great for “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” it doesn’t allow you to find help—or your way home. Brickhouse Security takes the car-cam one step further with GPS features in the Car Camera Voyager Pro.

Engadget says that the unit includes a G-sensor. That means your car knows when it’s been messed with, triggering the camera to record 10 seconds before and 30 seconds after any incident. How it knows to start recording makes it sort of supernatural, but we’re willing to take their word for it.

The GPS can also document where the incident happened, on the off chance that you drive around for days without noticing your bumper half hanging off.

Facebook Monday on a user’s personal home page for revision, re-design the layout of the new members in the exchange, sharing pictures and update personal information will change.
The revised development is the core of the “message wall” feature. Message wall is the user’s personal information page, where friends can post messages or pictures. After the revision, users can more easily add new content here. Moreover, the wall had also integrated into the user can only “mini-reader” in order to see the user activity report.
 Currently, Facebook and MySpace is for the world’s largest social networking site for the title battle was going. This summer, two sites on the same page of the revision to ensure that information more available and easily accessible site.In addition, growth and Twitter user needs, such as the rise of small competitors Facebook is also promoting the cause of change.
 Currently, Facebook and MySpace is for the world’s largest social networking site for the title battle was going. This summer, two sites on the same page of the revision to ensure that information more available and easily accessible site. In addition, growth and Twitter user needs, such as the rise of small competitors Facebook is also promoting the cause of change.
 Facebook, users have been reminded in recent weeks on the user profile page revision. As early as in May, Facebook has proposed a revised plan this week, users can test the new version, complete the transition to the new layout requires at least a week or two weeks time.
 Facebook product manager Makesili (Mark Slee), and create a complete album or blog pages compared, Facebook users tend to share pictures or leaflets on personal status information to update a word. The new version will allow users to pages in a central region make them easier to find information. In addition, the show subscription content, users will have more control over, you can add or remove individual elements.

Instead of cramming an expensive navigation system into the car, the Japanese company opened up some space at the top of the dash to allow Garmin integrate a system with the vehicle.

The 2008 Suzuki SX4 is the first vehicle of any sort to be priced below $16,000 and have a standard navigation system.

Suzuki created a flip-up position at the top of the dash to hold the Bluetooth GPS system. It clicks right in and charges while connected to the dash as opposed to the suction cup and wires down to the cigarette lighter outlet. The system connects through the stereo so it will automatically lower the radio’s volume before directions.

The little compact car, which goes against the likes of the Mazda 3, Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla, and Honda Civic, may come across as more cheap and cheerful than bold and beautiful, but for the money it’s a good deal.