GPS Golf Balls Are Almost Here
As GPS technology gets better and better and smaller and smaller it will be able to be used
for many things? For instance at the World Series a baseball hit into the third level will be
able to be recorded by GPS as to exactly how far it was hit and it's trajectory to formulate
where it would have actually landed had the stadium been flat. Thus we will be able to tell
who was the greatest homerun power house of all times, perhaps even who is on steroids based
on their body mass, speed of pitch, GPS data and 'haptics' (body movement and form). Wouldn't
it be cool to be watching the World Series on TV and instant information about a homerun
appearing on the bottom of the screen? Sounds like a whole new potential betting arena, not
only how many homeruns a person will hit, but exactly how far they will hit them?
A
football kick would be immediately known the exact yardage, every play near the sidelines
would be instantly called in or out of bounds and there would never be any question as to if a
football actually broke the goal line. I can hear the referee unions screaming foul already as
they will no longer be needed or have jobs? Ouch? Soccer balls, off sides, out of bounds? Yes
all possible via GPS data.
With sensors getting smaller and GPS units being used in
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles of smaller and smaller size for Micro Air Vehicles and RFID imbedded
chips, this technology believe it or not is ready for golf balls as well? All you need is a
little imagination. So there you are Tiger Woods with a PDA device in your hands which
measures the exactly where the ball is, how far to the next hole, picking up the data from
inside the golf ball itself and the flag in the hole. Way-points are displayed also as to
where the sand traps are, lakes, edge of fairway and the rough surrounding the green.
The World Think Tank recent discussion and brain storming session digressed from GPS
navigational devices to sports and we came up with the idea to put GPS Sensors in golf balls,
so you could find your golf ball if you have a nasty slice or heavy winds taking it off
course. Part of our discussion also came from another recent think tank discussion on putting
GPS sensors on Locusts Swarms in order to track them.
The idea of putting GPS sensors on
Locusts is a noble idea, yet who will pay for this technology, as the locust is small and
cannot carry much weight and still keep up with the rest of the swarm, which of course would
throw off the reading? Our thoughts were to let the golfing community pay for it. After all if
the locusts see such a green area of grass they would eat it all up.
As a kid I use to
run on the golf course and saw balls way off the ranges and fairways. Some of these golf balls
were custom, with people's names on them? Ouch adding insult to injury, I could immediately
tell who the bad golfer was? With the new GPS WTT Golf Balls you could never lose your golf
balls, because you would know their exact location via a set of satellites and that data would
be displayed on your wireless PDA device. This PDA wireless Tracking device would be with you
and you could carry it in a zipper pouch on the golf bag or on the steering wheel of your golf
cart. Now then on the poles and flags of each hole would be another sensor so when you set the
ball on the "T" for the next shot you would see the exact distance.
We went one step
further and figured out how to integrate a mini-weather station system on you golf cart. It
will be a slight modification of the Climatronics Corporation's TACMET System. For those who
liked to get a work out, it could be integrated into the golf bag with a small external
periscope;
http://www.climatronics.com See the TACNET System.
By integrating the
GPS System with known GIS Golf Course Topography and exact weather readings from the TACMET
System into the wireless PDA, the golfer would have all the data needed to make a perfect shot
provided they had the skill and pre-cognitive ability to make it so. Our system will also be
able to suggest the best club to use based on the ability of the golfer from previous courses,
wind, distance and punching in of the golfers present fatigue factor based on a 1-10
scale.
A Sarasota Company, Great White Shark Entertainment is already busy installing
WiFi and GPS systems such as golf shot distance measurement and course information which
includes a Golf Cart mounted system and handheld PDA wireless mobile display. These systems
will become great revenue enhancers for Golf Clubs and for the serious golfer who likes all
the bells and whistles and has the money to afford them. There system is quite perfect to add
to our idea or vice versa, check it out: The Inforemer?, this information available at their
website. GPS Industries is making it all happen.
http://www.gpsindustries.com
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Our WTT GPS Golf Balls will be more expensive than normal balls but well worth it as the
system teaches the player to shoot a better game. The golf ball could be the same weight? As
any normal PGA Golf Ball.
A future thought along this theme would be to eventually have,
thru special internal parts and shape shifting techniques, the ball if it got close would
simply roll over to the hole and fall in. This would mean no one would ever have to give them
a free put or allow someone to feel bad who fudged the score. This future idea would be great
for the player who understands he is not anywhere near a scratch golfer but occasionally might
like to play with a few. Or for the player who goes to the course simply to look cool, but has
not brains or talent?
