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AT&T creates a vibrating steering wheel for GPS instructions

Using electronic devices while driving is a huge distraction. Even the act of looking at or listening to your GPS can take your mind off the road. AT&T Labs is working on a solution that alerts drivers to navigational information by triggering vibrations on the steering wheel to augment other GPS commands. MORE

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By Eileen Marable

11:15AM on Mar 23, 2012

Fast Food • GPS • McDonald's

Fast food gets faster as Japan trials drive-thru ordering via GPS

Thanks to a partnership of no less than 26 private-sector firms and the government backed Highway Industry Development Organization, drivers in Japan will soon be able to order and pay for their drive-thru McDonald's meals from their car's GPS system. MORE

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By Eileen Marable

12:58PM on Mar 1, 2012

glonass • iphone 4s • satellite navigation

iPhone 4S uses the Russian GLONASS global positioning network

Pretty much every device you can buy with a satellite navigation function, relies on the U.S. built GPS network for coverage. But now this monopoly is being challenged by similar systems created by other countries. The latest iPhone 4S works on the GPS system just like other smartphones, but it also supports the Russian GLONASS network as a secondary system. MORE

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By Michael Trei

8:24AM on Oct 21, 2011

find my friends • ios 5 • iPhone

iOS 5's Find My Friends feature wrecks its first marriage

One of the new apps that Apple released with the new iOS 5 software is Find My Friends, which lets you pinpoint the location of your friends who also use the service. And it just claimed the life of its first marriage. MORE

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By Adam Frucci

5:45PM on Oct 17, 2011

gps • pets

Never lose track of your dog with this GPS pet tracker

For dog owners, there's nothing worse than the panic that sets in when your furry best friend runs off. But the Tagg GPS pet finder should prevent that from ever happening again. MORE

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By Adam Frucci

3:15PM on Sep 2, 2011

augmented reality • gps • wikitude drive

Android GPS puts your map on a live image of the road ahead

In car GPS makes it easy to find your way, but stare at that little screen for too long and you might run into the car ahead. The Wikitude Drive app for Android fixes that problem, by superimposing your route onto a live image of the road. MORE

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By Michael Trei

8:08AM on Sep 2, 2011

augmented reality • iphone • video

Augmented Reality Cinema puts you inside your favorite movies

Many people have great ideas for iPhone apps, but this one is one of the few that is tailor made for us sci-fi fans. It's called the Augmented Reality Cinema, and it promises to blur the lines between the fantasy world of film and real life. MORE

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By Adario Strange

6:15AM on Jul 11, 2011

google • google maps • gps

Google Maps Navigation may get a lot more usable this summer

While Google Maps on smartphones is great, it's no replacement for a standalone turn-by-turn navigator, as it doesn't work when you lose a signal. But that may not be the case for long. MORE

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By Adam Frucci

6:30PM on Jun 8, 2011

augmented reality • gps • navigation

This GPS replaces the crappy map with a live dashcam video

Finding your way through a complex intersection with most GPS units can be tricky, especially when road you see through the windshield doesn't look anything like what's on the map. This GPS unit fixes that problem, by replacing the map with a live video view from a dash mounted camera. MORE

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By Michael Trei

5:11PM on May 9, 2011

gps • messenger bag • navigation

GPS bag guides you through town without looking like a tourist

Native New Yorkers like myself can usually spot tourists from a block away. They're the ones looking lost as they wander around the city map in hand. The really geeky ones might even carry a hand held GPS. What they really need to blend in is this GPS equipped bag built by a guy called Josh, to guide him around Chicago. MORE

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By Michael Trei

4:05AM on Mar 22, 2011

Dogs • Remote Control

Remote control your dog with this vibrating GPS backpack

While it's true that dogs are already capable of responding to remote control, they generally have to be within sight or earshot. A doggie backpack developed at Auburn University allows control of a dog from miles away through a computer interface, just like a computer game. MORE

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By Evan Ackerman

6:04PM on Jan 19, 2011

goggles • gps • skiing

GPS goggles feature a heads-up display on the interior

The Zeal Transcend GPS Goggles are some seriously futuristic ski goggles, featuring GPS as well as a micro LCD display right inside the googles themselves. This allows you to see real-time GPS data as well as speed, altitude, distance traveled, the temperature and other information on a screen that appears to hang about six feet in front of you. MORE

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By Adam Frucci

8:01PM on Nov 1, 2010

gps • tracking

If you find one of these under your car, the FBI is tracking you

So this guy takes his car into the shop and the mechanics find this mysterious object stuck up next to the exhaust pipe. What is it? It turns out that it's a Guardian ST820, a GPS tracking unit used exclusively by the army and law enforcement. Awkward! MORE

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By Adam Frucci

12:28PM on Oct 5, 2010

blind • brainovi • gps

Braille GPS helps the blind to navigate in unfamiliar places

Just as car GPS units have allowed drivers to explore the unknown without fear of becoming lost, this 3D braille GPS is designed to help the visually impaired break out of their routine, by finding new places to visit. MORE

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By Michael Trei

11:34AM on Sep 20, 2010

bike share • iPhone • new york

iPhone powered bike sharing program coming to New York

Bike sharing programs have proven popular in other countries, but the high cost of building an infrastructure has made it tough to do in US cities. A new iPod and GPS powered system looks to change that by requiring no special fixed bike stands. MORE

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By Michael Trei

10:31PM on Aug 11, 2010

kids • tracking • whereoscope

iPhone tracking app lets you play big brother with your family

Tracking apps for phones are nothing new, but most of them require a computer to see where the other person is. A new iPhone app called Whereoscope make tracking much easier, and by working in the background, could allow for surreptitious snooping. MORE

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By Michael Trei

1:50AM on Aug 6, 2010

GPS • japan • navigation

These glasses hide a personal navigation system

GPS devices are great, but you always have to look at them and their screens to see where you should be headed. That's not the case with this pair of glasses created by the Nakajima Lab at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. MORE

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By Adam Frucci

1:45PM on Aug 3, 2010

2001 • GPS • predictions

Arthur C. Clarke's 1956 letter predicting GPS and satellite TV

We've long known about Arthur C. Clarke's prediction way back in 1945 that artificial satellites placed in a geostationary orbit could be used to relay radio signals around the world — but we had no idea that 11 years later, he revisited his famous essay "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" to predict the GPS… and more. MORE

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By Scott Edelman

4:39PM on Jul 26, 2010

GPS • Is It Art? • Video Installation

Bizarre experiment puts 26 GPS units on the same windshield

We've heard of getting a second opinion, but what about 26th opinion on which direction to go? Anything this crazy has to be an art piece, and that's exactly what this is. This video installation by artist Garvin Nolte consists of 26 GPS devices on a windshield, resulting in a special kind of chaos. MORE

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By Charlie White

12:10PM on Jul 8, 2010

darth vader • star wars • tomtom

The new voice of TomTom GPS: Darth Vader

TomTom has just released a new Darth Vader voice for its GPS navigators, allowing you to always follow the instructions of the most badass man on the dark side. Do you feel too pure of heart to take orders from... MORE

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By Adam Frucci

3:56PM on May 4, 2010

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