Local Tourist Guide in a (Linux) Box 79
Andrew Sealey writes "Antenna Audio, the largest heritage and tourism interpretation company has just licensed a location-based media platform and associated linux portable media device from a UK company called Node to enable them to do some pretty cool stuff with traditional tourist attractions. People will hire the linux based device at their entry point and then as they walk around and explore the attraction the device will search huge archives of rich media video and audio dependent on who a user is, where they are and what they are looking at. Their top sites in the US are places such as Alcatraz, MoMA in New York and Elvis Presley Graceland's property and the rumour is that Elvis's property may be one of the first to be converted to this new technology."
Yes, but can it... (Score:1, Funny)
Elvis has left the building (Score:3, Funny)
(Gee, I shouldn't post while I'm still on my first coffe of the day...)
Re:privacy (Score:2, Funny)
of course, when i leave, i am unlikely to be able to keep the PDA, so the tracking will have to end there. still, should the government want to exterminate all tourists within the boundaries of graceland, you are right. there would be no hiding in cupboards.
Re:I recently went to Alcatraz... (Score:5, Funny)
It contains the phrase "it would probably be simpler to have wireless headphones fed from a roving tour robot"