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[Where 2.0] Glympse has launched at Where 2.0. and it uses two simple but powerful concept to share your location in a useful and practical way:

• It shares your location only for a limited amount of time
• The recipient does not need a smartphone or create an account

In my opinion, that’s a powerful combination and that’s the way I want things to work. There’s no way that I would share my position 24/7, and I have to go down a couple of menus to turn the sharing on and off in Google Latitude. That’s basically why Latitude does not work (one bit) for me, and I tried, really. Also, having to use iGoogle to see my friends on my desktop PC isn’t great. This seems like a bad way to promote iGoogle.

Glympse has a weakness: it’s available for the G1 only… ouch, my Blackberry hurts. iPhone and Blackberry users will have to wait.

Kids love to mimic what their parents do, and here’s the Geomate Jr GPS system that works like a hi-tech game of hide-and-seek, where your kid will hide caches (containers) or microcaches (small logbooks) anywhere in the world, and are able to share the GPS coordinates on other sites such as Geocaching.com. The Geomate Jr GPS is meant to help kids get out of the house and into the sunshine during summer instead of remaining cooped up at home, playing their favorite video games. Other features on the Geomate Jr GPS include a simple interface and a monochromatic LCD display. It was specially built to cater to a kid’s life, being both splashproof and shock-resistant. The SiRF Star III GPS chipset is powered by a couple of AAA batteries - we wonder whether it will be affected when GPS dies next year.

Kerchoonz.com has released a brand new product known as the K-box - this device is no larger than the iPhone, and it utilizes gel audio technology which is capable of transferring virtually any surface it is placed on into a speaker. According to the manufacturers, the bass you get is “guaranteed to deafen your neighbours” - we’re not too sure whether that is a good thing or not. A full charge via USB will take around 20 hours of non-stop playback for it to be fully exhausted. Fancy taking a chance with this £40 device?