Maptor is an innovative portable map projector concept by Jin-Sun Park and Seon-Keun Park that promises to eliminate the need for paper maps.
Equipped with GPS and a small projector, Maptor allows the user to display map on almost any surface and view their current location. It somehow reminds me the mobile phone with embedded GPS which displays arrows on the ground in “Microsoft’s vision to the future”.
Creating a concept is nice, turning it into reality is even better.
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Nice concept. But! Will GPS work inside structures and buidings?
@ Armando: That’s a good question! Well, unless we suddenly improve the capacity of the GPS to receive a signal, my guess is that this Maptor won’t be able to operate in buildings… unless we equip it with a GSM/3G like composants to receive information over-the-air. But it definitelly works on platanos