{"id":1006,"date":"2009-10-14T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2009-10-14T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:28:41","slug":"setting-an-alarm-for-a-where-rather-than-a-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"setting an alarm for a where rather than a when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/vveather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/view-sourcehttpnclz.orgzzznicon.gifGeoff-Pado.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Pado.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"510\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=286796828&#038;mt=8\">Proximity<\/a> is a simple iPhone app that works as an alarm clock except the alarm is not set for a time but rather a location. It is aimed at commuters and others that end up sleeping while they are moving in some sort of transport. It is a great mobilization of two things that are usually understood as fixed: You sleeping in bed and your alarm clock on the bedside table are in a fixed location. A standard proximity sensor that is fixed in location sensing when moving things get closer than a pre-selected distance threshold.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the transposition of a specific location where one would usually have a specific time, attaching an alarm to a where rather then a when. It is a bit of genius.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=286796828&#038;mt=8\">Proximity<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/geoffpado.tumblr.com\/\">Geoff Pado<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proximity is a simple iPhone app that works as an alarm clock except the alarm is not set for a time but rather a location. It is aimed at commuters and others that end up sleeping while they are moving in some sort of transport. It is a great mobilization of two things that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,18,31],"tags":[158,204,388,272,394],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo","category-interesting","category-map","category-urban","tag-gps","tag-location","tag-mapping","tag-proximity","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}