GPS and GPS

Two interesting finds in the news today concerning GPS. As much as I knock the technology, it's out there, and it's available (for the most part). And, short of organizing a grass-roots find/geocode all the cell towers (I keep coming back to this idea...) movement, well, GPS is out there and available.

Rakon Ltd announced development of the world's smallest GPS module—"as tiny as a baby's fingernail". The module is reportedly extremely accurate, and simple to incorporate in devices.

The second find involves a GPS tracking device/service from Tracking The World.com. The system requires a small tracking module that can be placed on the object/person to be tracked, and an infrastructure that allows tracking information to be accessed via the web or through SMS messages. Pretty cool, huh?