The device won't let you make voice calls or surf the Web, but it does offer a host of safety features: It can map a bread-crumb trail of your coordinates so that people back home can track your whereabouts from any Web browser.

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That's the thankless job of Special Agent Gray Hill, who unfortunately fails to reunite many a map with its proper home, even after months of investigation.

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The smart map displays a visual representation of the home network and all of the connected devices to give users valuable information about network connectivity and current bandwidth usage so they can easily resolve any possible connectivity issues and get the most out of their home network.

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Of that 197, we obtained postcodes for 153 people and have plotted their home addresses against a map showing the deprivation of local neighbourhoods.

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As Cook helpfully pointed out, you can put a different map app (or in the case of Google or Nokia, a shortcut to their web apps) on your home screen.

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The church bells chime noon in the Val Badia, and Michil Costa sits outside his hotel in his home village of Corvara, studying a tattered road map through a cloud of cigar smoke.

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If the house was for sale, I clicked on an "Open in Zillow" link to see the listing page for the home, which included the usual Zillow details such as a map of the house's location, estimated mortgage and square footage.

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