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gps cow hat

Oct 9, 2008 gps navigation, misc news, tracking

Being a cowboy used to entail long days herding cows under the brutally hot and dry sun. Now, with the advent of solar powered cow hats, a stockbroker in New York could theoretically herd cattle in New Mexico. With the way Wall St. has been performing lately the cowboys might have a problem on their hands.

The GPS device was developed in a joint venture between MIT and the Department of agriculture. The GPS unit relays information about the cows location to a central server back at the ranch. If the cow leaves the pre-determined area music plays through a speaker built into the hat to nudge the cow back to where it belongs. If this fails an electric shock is enabled which will turn the cow around.

This is the first solar powered device we’ve seen that can play back MP3’s and deliver the occasional electroshock so it gets a four star review. In reality though it shows how far GPS technology has come in the last few years. Who would have ever thought GPS would impact the way cowboys worked?… via