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iNap for Commuters with iPhones

Published at 01/26/2009 in Business & Career, Computers & Technology and Toys & Gadgets. Comments

iNap If I were someone who had the opportunity to ride a train or bus to work every morning, the iNap might be just enough reason for me to actually entertain the idea of moving to an iPhone.

The iNap application takes advantage of the iPhone’s built in GPS navigation feature to serve as a location based alarm clock. Just get on the train in the morning and doze back off to sleep and have iNap alert you when you’re close to your station. Just in time to wipe the sleep from your eyes and drool from the side of your mouth and chin.

My boss and I have had the discussion numerous times about a location based reminder service that would take advantage of GPS navigation. Based on your location, you could be reminded to complete a task that can only be done if you’re near that area.

For example:

  • The next time I’m on the northwest side of town, drop by my brother’s house and return the books I borrowed.
  • The next time I’m downtown, go check out the new coffee shop on Broadway for lunch.
  • When I’m on the east side, run the car by the dealership so they can take a look at the check engine light that keeps coming on.
  • If you’re around the airport at dinner, take advantage of the buy-1-get-1 free entree at that new restaurant you’ve been wanting to try.

See how handy that would be. Hopefully an application like iNap can continue to grow into this type of GPS based reminder service. Now, let’s also hope someone can develop it for a Windows phone so I don’t have to get an iPhone.

Source: Top 10 New Technologies That Could Save Your Commute

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  • Technology like this is one of those things that really has the potential to revolutionize the way we live. It's a total paradigm shift compared to time-based reminders. In the battle vs. time and space, I think we're making major strides. I can certainly see how this would make me more productive.
  • It's my understanding that I have to manage an iPhone with iTunes. In my opinion installing iTunes and Quicktime on my computer again would be like willingly installing viruses and malware on it. I do not hold iTunes, Quicktime or Adobe Reader in very high regard anymore.
  • I love the idea behind this but not sure I could ever trust it. Seems easier to me to just set an alarm for 20 minutes or whatever you know is enough time to wake up before you reach your destination.

    That being said, the idea of location based reminders as you mentioned is fantastic. I would jump on board that in a second.

    And what's wrong with having to get an iPhone?!?!
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