This GPS concept locating device is a concept from Singapore designers Yong-kai Tan and Priscilla Lui which won the top prize at a recent International Design Competition. The device is called Dandella and could be used for finding your way home or to another person holding a Dandella.

The concept GPS wand, when activated, lights up and physically points in the direction to its home, or too another Dandella wand depending on what it was programmed to do. The idea is that the GPS device would connect in a wireless charging unit that looks like a pen holder cup, and could be programmed with its home location or what other wand it should try to find. It would be programmed with the appropriate settings from a computer through a wireless Bluetooth connection. An embedded GPS chip would be aware of its current location and the location of its home or the location of the other device it is supposed to go to.

Applications of this interesting wand would be to help a lost child or anyone else with poor navigational skills or in unfamiliar territory to find their way home or to someone else. This is only a concept at this point, and an interesting one at that. The designers of the Dandella are looking at ways to possibly develop it commercially.

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