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It seems that nowadays everyone's clamouring to tell you how to be a better driver. Garmin's new nüvi software, ecoRoute, supposedly helps you conserve by choosing a "less fuel" option for route preference.
TomTom's Go 740 Live GPS is their first to have a phone connection built-in, used to download traffic weather and friend finder information.
Ford and Microsoft's Sync is already pretty great--and the new generation Sync that S-Balm's revealing at this very moment at his keynote is better--turn-by-turn voice direction and more, cooed by Sync's lovely Samantha.
Garmin just dropped a couple new GPS units on us, the 855 and 885T. Both of 'em bring lane assist and voice control together and cost as much as a used car.
The Gadget: One of Garmin's flagship Nuvis, the 880 responds to commands from your voice, triggered by a little remote control you attach to your steering wheel.
First Google Street View captures a person peeing on the street, and now they drive right by a bunch of Porsche prototypes in Colorado.
Stairs, big stairs, bigger stairs, you name it: Woo Moonhyung's Panzer-like threaded Climbing UP suitcase can be dragged through every airport obstacle with ease. A winner of the Red Dot 2008, for good reason. [OhGizmo!]
XRoad's G-Map is a 933MB app for your iPhone that gives you offline GPS for anything West of the Mississippi. Too bad its average review is two stars.
Posted by Nick Broughall at 10:00 AM on December 23, 2008
Tipster Brian Houston over at Videosift.com received an email from Virgin's Velocity rewards program with the above image attached. He reckons it's hinting at the ability to redeem your Velocity frequent flyer points for a seat on their Virgin Galactic flights. I reckon he's probably right. Obviously we'll have to wait for February to come around before we know for certain, but if it is the case, expect to pay an absolute crapload of frequent flyer points for the privilege. In fact, if you don't already fly Virgin everywhere, and have a Velocity rewards credit card for all your expenses, I'd say you probably won't ever earn enough points to redeem a Galactic flight. In any case, we'll see what Virgin have to say come February...
[Videosift - Thanks Brian!]
Even though we've been waiting, well, just about forever for Garmin's Nuvifone, a marketing director in Asia has confirmed to DigiTimes that Garmin-labelled Android phones are in the oven. Well, maybe not: UPDATED 12:13PM/1:28PM EST
