Saturday, November 19, 2011

Ever Wonder Where That Plane Flying Over Your Head Is Going?

http://m.gizmodo.com/5861031/ever-wonder-where-that-plane-flying-over-your-head-is-going

I havent been able to get Wolfram Alpha to tell me anything useful yet, but this looks interesting :

" It's an awesome—and supremely nerdy—new feature that the computational search engine Wolfram Alpha has cooked up: it will poll your geoIP location and tell you what planes are overhead. And that the mobile apps take advantage of the feature actually makes it somewhat usable IRL.

If you run a search for "planes overhead," it will return a list of any and all planes your eyeballs can spot, the flight number, where they're positioned in the sky and how many miles up they are. In the browser version, the flight version is hyperlinked, showing you its flight path. Sadly, in the mobile version, you have to manually search the flight number. And it may take some of the fun out of your whimsical ruminations, but whatever. Knowledge is power."

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