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
The 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?