cool tech January 12, 2006 posted by Red

The smallest GPS chip evar?

smallestgps The smallest GPS chip evar?

New Zealand company Rakon has just announced the world’s smallest GPS receiver chip (size = baby’s fingernail). Look out for GPS functionality in watches Real Soon Now!

“Our R&D team has come up with a high sensitivity unit that can enable quite weak signals to be received, which is a real breakthrough in an industry that needs to have products that will function in urban environments with very high interference.” He says the company is now further developing the unit to provide up to three times greater sensitivity in its next generation, even before the first development is out the door.

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Jecc

I guess you *will* need GPS technology to track that thing down once you lose it. :)
Red

Not to mention very good eyesight and a pair of teeny teeny tweezers! :-)
zorg

uhm… GPS in watches has been around for quite a while..
Red

Oops, yeah. I suppose what I meant were ordinary sized watches, and not ones the size of grapefruit. :-)
Lance

This is good. Now I can implant one in my glasses and one in my wife so I can always find them.
Red

Lance – coffee through nose. :-)
Vandrid

Its implantable to human body or creatures ?
Nsi Okon.

Developer Please contact me at nsiokon@gmail.com. This is the best thing to happen if developed. We have a seriouse problem that this chipset will resolve.
saam

I want to know how much price of the device and how it works please email me at alwashali25@yahoo.com
Srinivas Aratikatla

Hi,
This is of my business intrest where in the quantity will be very very huge. I want to talk to some one please mail me the contact details ASAP
Gordon

I am very interested in your new product. Please contact me with pricing and availability.