By Andrew Liszewski In the back of your mind you’ve always thought you could do a better job at announcing directions than your GPS device does, and now you can prove it thanks to Garmin who’ve released a free Windows-only application that lets you record and use your own voice with a select...

By Andrew Liszewski Because we as a society have become even too lazy to use our fingers, Nikko is coming out with a remote controlled miniature helicopter that can be controlled with your voice, including commands like “start engine” , “higher” , “lower” , “hold”...

By Andrew Liszewski At CES we came across quite a few accessories for adding GPS functionality to the iPod Touch and even the first generation iPhone, but they usually consisted of some monstrous sleeve or case that made the device inconvenient to carry around. But PosiMotion has come up with what I...

By Andrew Liszewski GPS devices have definitely come down in price over the years, but they’re still not at the point where you wouldn’t care if one was stolen from your vehicle. So the Maplock ensures that when you leave your car with a GPS unit still attached to the windshield, it will...

By Andrew Liszewski Remember the I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard ? It was a little pod-like device you sat on your desk that projected a red virtual keyboard you could actually type on. Well the Light Touch is basically the same idea, but with about 5 years of technological advancement behind it. Instead...

TomTom has issued a new update to its navigation app that allows the original iPhone and the iPod touch to work with the application and the TomTom car kit. It really made no sense not to since the car kit has an external GPS receiver. Star Wars fans can use the force with a new iPhone game called Star...

When I was a kid I had one of those huge Casio watches with the tiny calculator built-in. It was high-tech enough back in the day that I used it to pass more than one math test without my teacher’s knowledge. A new GPS Watch has been unveiled by a UK firm called FollowUs that reminds me a lot...

Best Buy has a store brand called Insignia that includes a full line of products that run a wide range of offerings from GPS to home theater gear. A new Insignia product has tipped up that allows parents to keep an eye on children and could be used by employers to keep an eye on workers as well called...

By Chris Scott Barr Last month TomTom announced their first GPS app for the iPhone, which weighed in at $99. That’s one of the more expensive pieces of software out there, though on-track with some of the other GPS offerings. When I wrote about it , I expressed my disinterest in such an application...

By Andrew Liszewski Those of you reading this from South Korea have a new GPS navigation device to drool over. The APSI C100 features a generously-sized touchscreen that can be removed from the windshield mount/dock and used as a portable media player. But when connected to the dock in your car the...

Remember the scene in Seinfeld where the gang forgot where they parked and spent an entire episode looking for their slot? Well you can avoid moments like these with a rather interesting app from the Ovi store. “I Parked Here” costs about 3 Euros and remembers your parking space using Skyhook’s...

By Andrew Liszewski The Cheetah GPSmirror is a replacement rear-view mirror for your vehicle that uses GPS and a built-in database of speed traps and red light cameras (covering the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia) to apparently let you know when it’s ’safe’ to speed or run a red...