When speaking of a navigation system our minds quickly drift away to those embedded on car decks or bikes which help us to reach our destination. The newest additions in the lineup of navigation devices are the ones which cling to the user's body and help one with respect to local streets and towns. Among other designers who have experimented with this concept, Benjamin Peterson, an industrial design student from Washington came out with a pendant lookalike gadget that hangs in front of one's chest.
The pendant is designed to make travel easy in unknown territory and makes use of Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense Technology, a gestural recognition software system. The embedded camera in the pendant will identify the user's hand movements and tell him in which direction he needs to proceed based on his position. The designers suggest such a model will be helpful in airport scenarios. Most of the airports that I have come across both international and domestic are idiot-proof with their board signs and airline staff. It's probably the language issue which these guys are trying to tackle here.
Anyway, the Pendant Navigation system has a built-in processor and projector to bring out its capabilities. No word on how soon this concept will be hitting the retail shelves.
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