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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Field Trip App

Review by GeeksOnTour
a/k/a Chris and Jim Guld

Field Trip is a virtual tour guide in your pocket. You can configure it to sound a special alert when a point of interest is nearby. When you're traveling down the highway, it can alert you to historical markers nearby and give you the complete text of that marker! You can even turn on settings that make the app read the text to you in your phone's voice!

If you're walking around in a historic district, turn on Field Trip and up will pop info cards on the different items of historical interest as you walk by. Or, you can use the map view to navigate to some far away location and learn about the points of interest there.

Name: Field Trip
Author: Niantic Labs (spinoff of Google)
Price: Free
Available for: Android, iPhone

Click here for the Field Trip website
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2 comments:

  1. Gee I just watched a video on how dangerous texting is.. Now YOU want me read a text message while zipping down the highway.. HOW STUPID..

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    1. How 'bout if the passenger looks at the app and reads it out loud to the driver? Hmmm?

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