TMC Receiver
Price: Varies between manufacturers
Website: www.expansys.com
You can buy TMC receivers for most modern GPS devices, though the introduction of HD Live traffic services from the likes of TomTom are slowly eating away at the latter’s popularity. Still adding a TMC antenna is simply enough, with prices …
Satellite navigation might be set to arrive on the Nintendo DS with the launch of a new add-on called Ranger, from Chinese company Fab Chain.
It uses Google Maps and can do 2D and fake-3D map rendering. Ranger is powered by its own battery and can also connect to other devices including laptops.
No word on price or availability; but an interesting concept for the popular handheld games console nonetheless.
Sports-Log offers an interesting an unusual use for GPS technology. There’s nothing special in the hardware – a fairly standard GPS receiver that can be used with any navigation products, but that also has a tracking function that records and saves waypoints at given intervals. …
Globalsat has announced a new simple GPS receiver, GPS Director. It’s a basic system that stores up to five locations and then guides you towards them from wherever you are. Measuring just six centimetres across and weighing a mere 45g it is an extremely pocketable device, and perfect …
The Satellite PersOnal Tracker, or SPOT, is a new type of device to the UK market after successful use in the USA. It doesn’t display your position doesn’t give you directions and if all goes well you’ll never need to use it. If you do, though …
John Biehler has reviewed the Nikon GP-1, an add-on for DSLRs that automatically geotags your images as you take them. The verdict? Costly, but very cool.
Overall I’m very happy with the GP-1. I had researched other options out there and it just made more sense to go with this …
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