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THE CONVERGENCE CONTINUES: A portable GPS, with built-in digital camera, for $84.99. Cameras with ?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE CONVERGENCE CONTINUES: A portable GPS, with built-in digital camera, for $84.99. Cameras with GPS, cellphones with cameras and GPS, GPS with cameras — where will it stop? WIth implantable communications/GPS/camera chips?

UPDATE: Reader John McKay writes:

I already have the portable GPS with cameras, cell phone and much more, in the form of my iPhone, but for normal driving duty the screen is just too small to be really useful. what I’d really like to have is a dedicated car-based GPS with real-time traffic and weather overlays. The ultimate would be one that uses HUD (Heads Up Display) technology as well, allowing the driver to navigate and keep their eyes on the road at the same time.

This sort of super-GPS would have been most useful back in September 2009, when we had the “500 year floods” in Atlanta. My 45 minute commute turned into a 3.5 hour ordeal, and was that short only because I remembered a (apparently) little-known side road that did not have creek crossings, and therefore was not cut off.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 08, 2010 (boomark / email).