.Dust

The old tales that we read when we were young, or that some­one told us, were full of sug­ges­tions for inno­v­a­tive thoughts. Think at Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood story, a well known one that, after the ini­tial fear (it lasted for me for about five years) leaves the audi­tor with a plenty of curios­ity. Some ques­tions like “why the forest?” or “why she is alone?” or “why does the wolf speak with her instead of eat­ing her immediately?” started to rise in our mind. No log­i­cal answers, it’s a leg­end, you said, but there are some well hid­den mes­sages or sug­ges­tions we can dis­cover nowa­days.
Let’s start to help Lit­tle Red with some fea­ture she can apply to the sit­u­a­tion for sav­ing her skin.
First of all, her mother per­suaded Lit­tle Red to go to grandma: why not a phone call, a chat, no web­cam at all? Does grandma need some­thing to eat? Call a deliv­ery gro­cery ser­vice, a Chi­nese, a Pizza Hut. Then, our cham­pion started to walk alone in the for­est… with­out a GPS!! It’s obvi­ous that she lost the way and was forced to ask to such a bad boy like the wolf…
Go back to real­ity. I started to test a Nokia appli­ca­tion that, far to be amaz­ing as some other I already saw, take me to depict some sce­nar­ios that could be fun­nier than the stan­dard GPS nav­i­ga­tion. I’m talk­ing about Sports Tracker, you can use it with your Nokia phone in com­bi­na­tion with a portable GPS like LD-​3W, or with a GPS enabled phone, like the brand new N95… but where is the plea­sure? Sports Tracker offers sev­eral func­tions that trans­form a sim­ple walk in a more “unforgettable” event, mean­ing that you don’t lose your steps. Choose your best Activ­ity, such as Run­ning, Walk­ing, Cycling, Ski­ing, etc, and the sys­tem (made of your mobile phone+ST and your GPS) starts to record your path, made of speed, alti­tude, aver­ages, in an exportable file! When you’re at home, sim­ply con­nect to Google maps and import the files you cre­ate, and then your steps are traced, your route is dis­played with all the para­me­ters that ST col­lected. So…think about a vir­tual marathon, that you can run with your friends IN DIF­FER­ENT days, at the time you pre­fer, eval­u­at­ing each sin­gle per­for­mances sim­ply going thor­ough a web based appli­ca­tion that traces all the paths and orga­nize them into a ros­ter! You go to the city park, you find the start point indi­ca­tor, you take the run to the end, and then at home you face up to your oppo­nents, link­ing to the city web site that man­ages the results. Or what about test­ing dif­fer­ent routes, for eval­u­at­ing which is the best to travel along, in order to speed up your morn­ing jour­ney and sleep 5 min­utes more? I’m going on with my test expe­ri­ence, and if I’ll be lost in a wood I’ll upload my path wait­ing for a lit­tle help from my friends.

Why do I Blog this?
Prob­a­bly it does not help Lit­tle Red, she is des­ig­nated to become wolf food, but this sim­ple appli­ca­tion could give me the moti­va­tion to ride my bike again. And take (and win) a vir­tual con­test against you.

(The pic­ture is from http://​research​.nokia​.com/) (Thanks to Max for the hint!)

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