Getting Through A Maze With Your iPhone
October 7, 2010
Mazes have long been popular with both kids and adults. While some are pretty easy to maneuver through, others can take upwards of two hours or more to complete. Until now.
Tim Bentley, the attractions manager at Longleat (England), noticed that people were getting through his hedge maze in a matter of minutes, rather than the typical 90 minutes. The reason? Many of those going through the maze were looking at aerial photos of the maze on their iPhones!
According to Macstories, Bentley said:
"I couldn’t count the number of mobile phone calls we’ve had over the last few years from visitors who thought they’d never get out! But just recently we noticed more and more people were finding the exit a lot quicker than before but I didn’t realise why until I went in there with my brother-in-law recently. After about ten minutes of getting lost, he just said “I’m fed up with this’” and pulled out his iPhone which told him where he was and where he needed to go.”So before you go to a maze, check online for photos of it. A quick search for "maze" on Flickr , for example, turned up thousands of such photos. Perhaps your maze is one of them. Of course, you'd probably have more fun running around the maze without an unfair advantage, but that could just be me! [Photo: Macstories]
