GPS-- A new thing!
I was introduced to a brand new high tech gadget recently, The Global Positioning System. It is an awesome little invention. It is about five inches by four inches or somewhere near that. Some may be smaller and some may be larger. But the one my Grandson had was about that size.
My grandson picked me up to drive me somewhere and he had a borrowed one in his car. He used it to get us to the place we were going. I was fascinated by the thing.
I am told that you enter the address of where you want to go and this gadget tells you precisely where and which way to turn. As we were going along the device would tell you exactly which lane to get in, where to turn and how far you had to go before the turn.
If you take a wrong turn the device says, "Recalculating," and it then continues to tell you how to get to your destination from this wrong turn. You absolutely can not get lost with it!
I saw an advertisement on TV a for a GPS called the Garmin recently. It mentioned that if you wanted to find a restaurant to eat in that the device could tell you exactly where one was and also tell you how to get to it. Even if you wanted a special kind of restaurant, such as Italian or Mexican or whatever, it could get you there also. Isn't that amazing?
We have made many trips back through the years and have many times taken a wrong exit or turn. This device would have saved us many miles and much sweating! If only we had had one of these little toys back in those days we could have been a lot happier! I guess We were born too soon!
posted by kyra lafain @ 7/22/2008 12:30:00 PM
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Have you thought about all the innovations we've had just since your sister died 24 years ago? She would be amazed that we all carry a phone around with us. She would be amazed that we can talk to each other on computers in our homes. She would be amazed that you can get a television that's just a couple of inches thick and hang it on your wall. She would be amazed that a little disc can hold a movie. She did know what a VCR was, but she didn't have one. She would be amazed at the home security systems we have now, text messaging, and all the hi-tech appliances. And she would certainly be amazed at GPS!
Do you know what mama would have used all of these wonderful inventions for? My guess is that GPS would take her from garage sale to garage sale!! Wouldn't she have loved the internet....can you imagine all the information she could find on Presidents?! nh
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