I’ve been working on a new app that isn’t like anything else out there yet - MapRhino!

It’s an app for kids on road trips who have iPads - the parents load up the MapRhino app on their iPhone, put in their destination, and then the kids get the car’s location and the time remaining until they get there on their iPads.

The greatest part about it is that it doesn’t require any kind of wireless data plan for the iPads - the iPhone and the iPads set up their own wireless network in the car using the Wifi and Bluetooth connections built into the devices, and the iPads can get the streaming updates.

Unfortunately, it uses some Apple-only technology, so it’s only going to work with iPhones and iPads (for now), but all you need is a recent iPhone and iPad.

I’m in the process of finishing up beta testing, to get the app out into the App Store, but I’ve included a screenshot of the iPad app so you can see what it looks like.