Listing six exciting alternative uses for GPS suggests a slow news day, but PC World knows what matters in the fast-paced world of modern business life: getting that handicap down. Top spot is awarded to measuring the distance from ball to pin — a practice that's game-legal and very effective, assuming you know exactly how far you can whack a ball. The other novel uses described are fishing, hunting for buried treasure, finding WiFi hotpots, and not getting lost in the wilds.
Hmm. I'm thinking that maybe this is really "four innovative uses, a pointless use, and a use for which it was intentionally designed."
GPS is the gadget world's poster child for functional dullness. It does what it does, and there's nothing you can do, short of programming it to have the voice of Dennis Hopper playing Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, to make it more interesting.
Six Innovative Uses for GPS [PC World]
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