Hasta La Gadget!

While Google Maps might be one of the more widely used mapping applications around and it looks like it is about to get better, thanks to a new Google effort called Project Tango that was recently announced by Sundar Pichai. What is Project Tango, you ask? Well it is a prototype phone built by Google that has the ability to learn its surroundings, like the dimension of a room and the spaces just by being in the room itself and as it is being moved around. For example with the user carrying the device and walking around their house, the device will be able to learn the shape of the home which will help create a more robust and precise map, which in turn will help Google Maps become more precise in the future. (more…)

Google Announces Project Tango original content from Ubergizmo.