rakon GPS receiverBy David Ponce

A lot of you are probably going to say things like “This will only make it easier for the goverment to track me!”, or “My wife will always know where I am!!” Fear not. While it may be the world’s smallest GPS receiver, this little marvel by New Zealand based Rakon still has to be paired up with an ostensibly larger transmitter for anyone to be able to “track” you.

As small as a baby’s fingernail, this chip is meant to be integrated into other manufacturer’s devices, surely satisfying them in their miniaturization efforts. It is even sensitive enough to pick up weak signals.

All GPS receivers use quartz crystals in the decoding of satellite positioning data by oscillating at very specific frequencies; Rakon was the first to develop temperature-controlled crystal oscillators that were small, inexpensive and yet still precise enough under the dynamic temperature changes that GPS systems experience.

[Rakon’s Press Release] VIA [HipTechBlog]

11 COMMENTS

  1. will you please send me information of your product, and if posible to work sending podition message fron the Andes in a rural position
    Thanks

  2. will you please send me information of your product, and if posible to work sending podition message fron the Andes in a rural position
    Thanks

  3. Quiero hacer un trabajo de ecologia con pequeños mamíferos, quiro saber los costos, sofware para la captura de los datos, duración.

  4. I need a small weatherpoof GPS devise that can transmit data from within its  incapsulated chipset board to the next transfer layer that is reading various levels of extremeties to include temp. air pressure.body temp, weight, time in various condition states. The data will need to be uploaded packet based enccrypted on a constant basis.  But the global positioning and key indicators being read and transmitted by the GPS devise is key.  BILLION$$$ OPPORTUNITY

  5. he sido victima de robo, unos tipos robaron ingresaron a mi casa y se
    llevaron mis cosas, entre todo lo sustraido sumaria un aprox. de casi
    36000 dolares en equipo electronico, tenia un XBOX 360, un NIntendo wii,
    una lap top DELL, una I MAC PRO, un Tablet, mis 15 unidades de memoria
    USB, una cantidad de equipo de video juegos, ademas de mi ropa y zapatos
    tennis, praticamente me vaciaron toda mi habitacion, tenia una guitarra
    electrica GIBSON autografiada, es importante contar con esta
    tecnologia. avisenme como la puedo adquirir.

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