Gadgets

Garmin’s New GPS Come With Free Maps For Life

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10:00AM February 8, 2012 | Alex Kidman

Garmin’s upping the ante in the local GPS space; instead of a limited time “free maps” offer, its latest range will come with map upgrades for the entire life of the product. More »


News

Navigation Data Shows Costa Concordia May Have Had a Steering System Failure

8:45AM January 26, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

This video shows the navigation path of Costa Concordia, the ship that ran aground in Italy. Lots of things went wrong after it hit the first rock, but her path reveals that they may have been a steering system failure before that. More »


Gadgets

Stephen Fry Turns Your TomTom Into A Stately British Butler

8:00AM December 16, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Stephen Fry — best known stateside for his portrayal of Jeeves and on Giz for his Apple enthusiasm — is now available as a downloadable voice pack for your TomTom navigation device. At least if you live in the UK. More »


Software

Bert And Ernie Now Available For Your TomTom

4:21AM November 11, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Move over moustaches, it looks like November belongs to the Muppets this year. They’ve got a new movie coming out, there’s an online movement to have them host the Oscars, and now TomTom has announced a series of Sesame Street voices, starting with Bert and Ernie. More »


Online

Google Adding Charges To Maps

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10:00AM November 1, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Only for heavy business users at first, but is Google’s “everything’s free” mantra starting to sag at the edges? More »


Cars

Augmented Reality Navigation Displays In Your Windshield? Yes.

5:20AM October 27, 2011 | Adrian Covert

What if you’re driving down a dark road in the middle of the night and you have no idea where you are? Navigating twists and turns would suck. But what if your car could display all the relevant info in front of your eyes? More »


Gadgets

6 Tools To Sail The High Seas Like Christopher Columbus

2:00AM October 11, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Christopher Columbus was kind of a bastard. Still, here we are 519 years later celebrating his accidental discovery of San Salvador. So in honour of navigation and discovery — things that actually deserve adulation — here are six awesome nautical exploration tools, past and present. More »


Cars

Why Does This Car’s GPS Mock French People?

2:40AM September 17, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Stereotypes: vicious, unfair and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you’re a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain. More »


Gadgets

This GPS Navigation Device For Cyclists Will Murder You Dead

5:40AM September 15, 2011 | Mat Honan

Somewhere, right now in Holland, a well-intentioned team of inventors are trying to kill you. They aren’t trying to kill you. They want to save you. And while it’s just a concept, if this device ships it could kill people. More »


Cars

TomTom’s Newest GPS Creepily Auto-Tweets Your Location

11:19PM August 29, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Fret not — Hurricane Irene didn’t blow all the stupid out of the world. The TomTom Go Live 1535 M packs apps! The coolest one? A neutered Twitter program that only lets you broadcast your location to the internet. Vroom! More »