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Friday, February 14, 2014

Zip-a-dee-do-dah

Mobile Mapping Indoors and Outdoors with Zebedee

It looks like they have combined several bits of technology:
plus a bit of the hand-waving robot from Lost In Space. Via The Guardian and Posthip Scott. For comparison, here is one of the first inertial navigation systems:

Litton Industries LN-3 Inertial Navigation System. Used in the F-104 Starfighter in the 1960's. It is roughly a thousand times bigger and a thousand times less accurate than a modern cell phone.

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