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The handheld GPS units are the only consumer products I know which
rely for their operation on applied general relativity in more than a
trivial manner. That alone makes them nice demonstration items. I
take my students outside, and the next time I teach special
relativity I have a dandy way to introduce it with space and time
entering symmetrically into the solution of the GPS problem.