Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 3:30pm
Are you one of the lucky 6.7 million Americans who got a GPS personal navigation device at the end of last year? A whopping 47% of those units were made by Garmin, the U.S. market leader (TomTom is in...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:15am
We’ve tested all kinds of GPS devices, but this Eclipse AVN2210p comes closest to the perfect navigator and car radio. Besides being a full-featured car stereo with its iPod integration (with remote control), hands-free Bluetooth phone calling, and mp3...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 6:44am
The UberTracker is an accessible way for just about anybody to add a GPS tracking system to whatever they want. It'll send GPS tracking updates to an email address or web server by way of a cellular antenna. You'll need...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 11:00pm
Yes, the iPhone currently rules the day, but some of us geeks like our gadgets to look less like museum pieces and more like hacked together power boxes. That's where EMobile's aptly named new S11HT EMONSTER comes into play. Touted...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:48am
Sony has updated their GPS-CS1 with the new GPS-CS1KSP model that comes in essentially the same form factor with just a little more sexy added to the device's housing. The original model was meant to perform as a geo-tagging unit...
Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:31am
The Wireless Impact Guardian, or WIG, is a project by Brycen Spencer from UMass Amherst and it aims at taking the traditional motorcycle helmet one technological step further. Integrated into the helmet is a GPS receiver, accelerometer and communication...
Monday, February 11, 2008 - 11:31am
Vie is a conceptual design by Du Tran Nguyen at Monash University. It is a glove designed with the runner or athlete in mind. It turns your hand into a GPS receiver and displays the current location on an...
Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 7:25am
This week an Israeli company called modu introduced a new modular phone, also called modu. The phone is smaller than a credit card, and is meant to fit into "jackets," larger, cell-phone like devices that have different core functions,...
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:33pm
Recently, two hikers were rescued off of Mt. Hood. They didn't have a GPS or personal locator, yet GPS technology saved their lives. Unable to figure out where they were in blizzard conditions, they built a snow cave to...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:38pm
Nearly 252 million people in the U.S. have a cellphone, according to the cellphone industry group CTIA. This ubiquitous pocket plaything is increasingly capable of wondrous and heretofore unthinkable technological feats both frivolous and necessary. Just a couple of...
