GPS

Editor note: cool gizmo using science to work! Check out original C-Car review here.

Austin, TX and Phoenix, AZ, February 21, 2005 – Texas based start-up Lancetta, Inc.’s first product, the C-Car car finding key chain, has been selected by DollarDays International, a Phoenix based wholesaler with more than 180,000 merchant clients in the U.S. and internationally, for wholesale distribution.

Released less than six months ago, the C-Car is simple to use and designed to help shoppers and others find their vehicles in crowded parking lots. Shoppers, outdoor sports enthusiasts, teachers, Boy and Girl Scouts, hikers, campers and many others appreciate the high impact plastic construction, simplicity of use and affordable price of just $4.95 MSRP.

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By JAMES A. FUSSELL, The Kansas City Star

Peering under rocks, stepping over stumps and knifing through overgrown brush, Brian Yonke inspects an urban jungle in his hometown of Liberty with near-surgical precision. The thickly wooded area teams with ticks, spider webs and poison ivy. Near 100-degree heat causes sweat to drop from his chin in dime-sized droplets. He doesn’t care; his $400 GPS device tells him there’s something hiding here, and he and his wife, Carlin, aren’t leaving until they find it.

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by Beth Healy, NY Times

GPS is invading recreational sports. Under clear skies, those signals beaming to earth from satellites can find you on a hilly running trail, in a kayak on the ocean, or on a green fairway where you’re trying to fade a 230-yard drive into the wind. In the four years since the Defense Department loosened its grip on the Global Positioning System, the technology has migrated from military missiles and luxury cars to the wristbands and back pockets of people who normally revel in getting away from it all. For many athletes and outdoor adventurers, those space signals are taking the place of the speedometer, the compass, the map, and all manner of guesswork.

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By K. Oanh Ha
Mercury News

One of the oldest global positioning technology firms, Sunnyvale’s Trimble, is banking that consumers will want a portable tracking device versatile enough to trace the movements of a car as well as a valuable suitcase.

That’s the idea behind the TrimTrac, a device about the size of a chalkboard eraser.

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