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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Thumbgps-devel] lost something lately?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 17:09:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw7qzSOfhr7uM-0C8vXSjdeprO6KHR1RV=Z28xYE4kuWWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I saw this as a last post on the blog post that started all this, and
it set me to thinking...

"Since sound travels at about 5s/mile that’s about 1 foot per
millisecond. If you have a bunch of cheap computers, say on the same
WiFi network that can synchronize their clocks within an accuracy of
1ms, then they can use sonar pings via their microphones and speakers
to plot their relative position within an accuracy of ~1foot.

Could be useful if you have a household with multiple laptops, phones,
and tablets, and you don’t know that a phone is lost in the cushions
of a couch."


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2012-05-09  0:32 ` tz

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