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The Air Force Wants You to Stop Blaming GPS Satellites When You Get Lost
The Air Force isn't happy with some of the stories about the couple who got lost in the woods after following their SUV's GPS. For some reason, a lot of people keep blaming innocent GPS satellites for the whole mess. More »Garmin 450T Outdoor GPS Their Best (Without a Silly Camera)
Garmin's 450T GPS is their highest end without an integrated camera, and so, the best discrete outdoor GPS they make. It has a barometer, altimeter, waterproofness, tilt-compensated compass and a receiver sensitive enough for quick fixes in canyons and forests. More »Evil GPS Leads a Couple to the Frozen Wilderness to Die
A couple was stuck in the untamed winter wilderness of eastern Oregon for three days after following their evil SUV's GPS navigator's directions. They were saved by a do-gooder GPS in their phone. More »Pedal Brain App Might Do For Cyclists What Nike+ Did For Runners
Cycling apps are nothing new to the Apple App Store, but this hardware/software combo called Pedal Brain is the first to provide convenient ANT+ wireless device support. More »MotionX Drive Turn-By-Turn App Just $1 For the Holidays
If you're not sure about this whole iPhone turn-by-turn thing, and you've been too afraid to try it because the apps are so expensive, hey, look: Motionx Drive, our favorite budget iPhone nav app, is just a dollar right now. More »Magellan's Premium iPhone Car Kit
It's not the first iPhone GPS car kit, but Magellan's list of features might make this one of the better ones, and it doesn't even require you to use Magellan's own GPS app. More »12/16/09
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TomTom Releases $50 US-Only iPhone App
Given the intense competition in the turn-by-turn app wars, TomTom is offering an alternative to their $99 original version by ditching Canada and dropping the price to $50. More »Maplock is Like a Steering Wheel Lock for Your GPS
Considering how cheap and ubiquitous GPS devices have gotten, I'm not surprised that they're now the most commonly stolen item from vehicles. That's why Maplock caught my eye: it hooks onto your GPS and tethers it to your steering wheel. More »Sprint to Humans: We Know Where You Are, and So Do the Police
In the last year alone, Sprint turned over users' GPS data to authorities 8 million times. While that number is misleadingly high—this could translate to under a thousand individual users—it's still terrifying. But wait, it gets even better! More »Strechable, Flexible, Twistable Antennas
Traditional copper antennas are rigid yet delicate. And in the age when almost every gadget we use requires some sort of antenna, they're a lousy solution. Luckily, new tech is on its way. More »Let Snoop Dogg Guide You to the Weed on TomTom, Fo' Shizzle
Snoop Dogg, when he's not busy designing headphones and releasing tracks on Rock Band, fancies himself as a navigational hero, lending his "Snoop Speak" to TomTom. More »CoPilot Live GPS App Is $20 During Thanksgiving Special
ALK is dropping the price of CoPilot Live North America from $35 down to $20, starting tomorrow. Since CoPilot was already our favorite non-subscription budget GPS app, this is nice to hear. More »11/24/09
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The Future of Snow Sports Tech
Bright ideas and products in skiing and snowboarding, from a Norwegian hotel built into a mountainside to an inflatable pack that can save you from an avalanche More »Make Your Own Real Time Kinematic GPS Receiver That's Accurate to One Centimeter
Researchers Tomoji Takasu and Akio Yasuda of Tokyo University have developed an open source, inexpensive, Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS receiver than runs on a beagle board. They've also left instructions on how you can build one yourself. More »There Shouldn't Be A GPS Tracking System In My Lingerie
I'm all for naughty, oh-come-treat-me-like-a-bad-girl-tonight scraps of lace. What I'm not such a fan of is trashy oh-come-follow-me-using-the-built-in-GPS lingerie. I don't care if it's pretty, frilly designer lingerie. It's got a damn tracking system embedded in the fabric. More »Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
Garmin EcoRoutes ESP Displays Car Diagnostics On Your Nuvi GPS
Sometime next year, Garmin nuvi GPS devices will have the option of displaying information on your car's inner workings using EcoRoutes ESP—a module that taps into your car's onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) port. More »Week In Review—The Second Coming of Android
Think of this week's round of announcements as Android's débutante ball. She's gone from a lovable ragamuffin to a mature OS that's ready for the spotlight. With Android 2.0, Motorola Droid and Google Maps Navigation, she stole our hearts. More »Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect
As you know, Google's freebie turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 surfaced this week. After driving around our patented testing track for a few days, I can tell you what's great—and what's surprisingly bad—about it. More »