Phone for Direction
At one point during An Event Apart Boston—for which I finally uploaded my few pictures, to add to the much larger pool—I observed that Boston, like parts of New York City and most European cities, is a place where maintaining a relation to the cardinal compass points is almost impossible. Thanks to its centuries-long Organic Growth Syndrome, finding one’s way can be next to impossible, even when you have Google Maps giving you directions on your iPhone. (Not my iPhone; I don’t have one yet, which makes my posting of the perfect ringtone deliciously ironic. But certainly on whoever around you has an iPhone, which is put-near ever’body, these days.)
Of course, the soon-to-be-released 3G iPhone will have true GPS capabilities, I said, and that’s when it hit me: someone should take the iPhone SDK and an insanely high-resolution copy of the Safari logo and put them together to create a 3G iPhone compass. Hold it level and watch the needle find true north! Genius.
So somebody get on that, okay? Thanks much!
