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Garmin Nuvi to display the inner workings of your car

Garmin Nuvi to display the inner workings of your car

Now this is really cool in a geeky sort of way: Garmin will soon offer EcoRoutes ESP, an optional attachment...
 
MIT wants your dashboard GPS to have an expressive robotic head

MIT wants your dashboard GPS to have an expressive robotic head

Say hello to AIDA, or — since robots aren't allowed to have plain 'ol names — your Affective Intelligent Driving...
 
Is Google Navigation the death of Garmin, Magellan and TomTom?

Is Google Navigation the death of Garmin, Magellan and TomTom?

Google has just released its free navigation software for mobile phones running Android 2.0, much to the chagrin of the...
 
Entourage PS, a car-grade tracking device in your pocket

Entourage PS, a car-grade tracking device in your pocket

At a glance: Escort's Entourage Portable Security system is strong enough to keep track of cars, but it fits —...
 
Say hello to the 'Al Gore' GPS backpack

Say hello to the 'Al Gore' GPS backpack

The Al Gore backpack might look like something that you'd see left on a subway platform that would send you...
 
Garmin Nüvi 1690: wirelessly connected GPS falls short

Garmin Nüvi 1690: wirelessly connected GPS falls short

Garmin jumps into the connected GPS game with its Nüvi 1690, a $500 portable that carries on the user-friendly tradition...
 
Blue blue, blue GPS shoes make you instantly locatable

Blue blue, blue GPS shoes make you instantly locatable

Where the heck are you? No one will wonder anymore once you've donned your Isaac Daniel Compass and Blue GPS...
 
Garmin GPS phone is coming to AT&T. Should you care?

Garmin GPS phone is coming to AT&T. Should you care?

We've been hearing about Garmin's nüviphone — a cellphone with full-featured turn-by-turn GPS — for literally years. Turns out it's...
 
Garmin-Asus nüvifone coming this October

Garmin-Asus nüvifone coming this October

The Garmin-Asus nüvifone has been talked about for a while, but now it's gone from talk to reality. The nüvifone...
 
Huge Magellan Roadmate GPS puts your maps on a big screen

Huge Magellan Roadmate GPS puts your maps on a big screen

Anyone who has ever squinted at a typical tiny GPS screen trying to read an obscure street name, will appreciate...
 
Android on a tablet? Archos Googles the portable media player

Android on a tablet? Archos Googles the portable media player

Slipping almost surreptitiously into stores tomorrow is perhaps a better portable media player than the much ballyhooed new Apple iPods...
 
Study: GPS gives you four days of your life back

Study: GPS gives you four days of your life back

Rarely do mere gadgets make such bold claims: a GPS navigator in your car can give you four days of...
 
Couple goes woefully astray following GPS directions

Couple goes woefully astray following GPS directions

At some point, you have to wonder when common sense was replaced with sheer stupidity naivety. A couple of Swedish...
 
Garmin navigates to a quick fix for a big problem

Garmin navigates to a quick fix for a big problem

One day after an email went out that Garmin had a glitch in their software for the nüvi 7x5 series,...
 
GPS-enabled Cobra SL3 warns of speed cameras, dangerous intersections

GPS-enabled Cobra SL3 warns of speed cameras, dangerous intersections

Here's a GPS unit that might be able to save you some money. As sneaky speed cameras quietly insinuate themselves...
 

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