Insta GPS

UK-based 3Dlabs, a primary media processor manufacturer, recently showcased the capabilities of their model by making use of TeleAtlas maps and in a 3D modeled version of Paris. Demonstrated at 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, 3DLabs’ product is claimed to be different from others such that it boasts of providing an actual 3D experience as contrasted to what you obtain on the majority of GPS models where they in fact ’tilt’ a 2D map to bring about a phony view of 3D flyover.

3DLabs is intended for this technology to be utilized in just personal navigation systems however also provide them access to digital audio players. The first devices to make use of such actual 3D navigation interface crafted by 3Dlabs is expected be shipped out in the coming future. 3Dlabs has no plan to put up for sale their own sat nav device therefore we might have to wait some more months to discover which companies is going to unleash their products with the latest technology.

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With the announcement of the Spectator mobile storage device and photoGPS accessory for digital cameras, JOBO AG seems to be diversifying its trademark Giga Vu range of photo viewer/storage devices. While the company looks to be taciturn on the majority of the fine points as long as the products are not debuted officially at the PMA 07 trade show in Vegas next month, the Spectator seems to be to some extent less of a complete model than the company’s assorted Giga Vu deliverance, without pointing out of PMP sports and a noticeable smaller screen.

However, the latest Spectator is supposed to be holding lots of photos — available in 40, 80, and 120GB versions with the price tag of €249, €299, and €379, correspondingly or almost $330, $390, and $500. The latest photoGPS boasts of enabling users to tag all their photos with GPS data as they take them, expediently integrating the location info to the photo’s EXIF file. The most interesting thing here is its price that is with the photoGPS set to ask for €149 or only under $200 when it will be introduced this summer.

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The methods available to keep track of your youngsters are on the rise these days. There are many a GPS-based devices that claim to keep track of your young kids, and there seems huge demand for our family location services across the globe. Considering all this, Vivo has come up with WaveMarket’s GPS-based Family Location Service, the first family location service in Latin America.

With the introduction of Vivo, a BREW Family Location deployment, WaveMarket boasted of integrating a lot of new sports comprising location-based “Alerts,” which is touted to automatically inform parents at whatever time a child makes his/her entry or quits a designated area such as school or home.

WaveMarket’s GPS-based Family Location Service allows parents to find children, handle permissions, and get alerts on the web or on an application on the cell phone. The application is also claimed to leverage WaveMarket’s patent-pending geofencing engine, WaveAlert. WaveMarket’s distinctive technology is the single solution that makes use of quick and sharp analysis to bring down the price of operating the service.

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Here comes a smart idea from the world of jet fighters where Head-Up Displays have been standard for decades. Now this fundamental technology is inexpensive enough to integrate every car with it, not only some luxury models. GlobalTop Technology will be demonstrating the GPS HUD Speed Meter at CeBIT, which projects your speed and other navigational information, such as direction, onto your car’s windscreen. Of course, this GPS-enabled system in fact display your speed and direction on your windshield thus you need not to look down to examine your dashboard. Just similar to jet fighter planes.

The image could give the impression of only rendering a concept device, but in fact this device will be received through FedEx to get reviewed in the subsequent week or so. It is made by a company known as GlobalTop and is officially named as GPS HUD Speed Meter.

Here are some of the features:

(1) Integration via Bluetooth for connection to Smartphone or PDA navigation programs
(2) Receives 32 channels ensuring high accuracy speed and position information
(3) Speed warning function, which can be set up by user
(4) Displays speed and direction

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P-Track 200 is a tracking system that claims to give support to GPS and A-GPS. It is operated on CDMA networks to relay its location turning it into a right picking for North America and Canada. One more handy sport of the P-Trac 200 is that it is integrated with a battery that boasts of working for 7 days but for the need of charging, and if that could satisfy you, then give an additional $100 to have the extended battery that will last for 21 days but for any charge.

P-Trac 200, like the majority of other tracking devices, also brags a range of sports, at the most on the server side. You are allowed to get multi user access to single tracking unit and fix many geo fences put by street address or lat-long and radius. You are enabled to get automatic warnings relayed to you either by e-mail or SMS. Or you are enabled to get ‘locations on demand’ from your computer. Google Earth compatibility is also integrated with it; in this way you are allowed to cover satellite images and your tracking course.

If you want to get P-Trac200, you will have to pay a hefty amount, the hardware at $800, and $70 for activation thereafter. And for service, you will have to pay$30 to $80 each month

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Trimble has launched best-of-breed and state-of-the-art version of its all the rage AgGPS EZ-Guide Plus lightbar guidance system called the EZ-Guide 500 system, which is touted to be integrated with a wider, simple to read color LCD display, manifold accurateness options and data logging functions. Lightbar systems gives GPS-enabled guidance for vehicle operators to steer tractors, air seeders, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, and bigger tillage devices that need reliable pass-to-pass accurateness to help salt away fuel, enhance competence and lessen input expenses for agricultural operations.

The latest EZ-Guide 500 sports a wide 7-inch LCD display, which is three times bigger than Trimble’s field-proven AgGPS EZ-Guide Plus or any other available agriculture lightbar display. The EZ-Guide 500 system is also touted to be consisted with a built-in lightbar with a guidance LED array that is able to be seen even in direct sun. Besides,the EZ-Guide 500 also puts forward sophisticated however user-friendly guidance patterns, plus real-time where-applied coverage mapping.

The plan and perspective views let users have a watch on screen, in colour and real-time, the area covered by them in the field. Users, with the data logging function, are allowed to keep record of the day’s work and shift it to a computer through a USB flash drive with a view to generating printed maps and reports. Not only this, the latest EZ-Guide 500 system, with its high precision dual-frequency L1/L2 Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, also boasts of providing users with an assortment of accurateness options but for making purchase of an external GPS receiver. Users are allowed to opt: 6-8 inch pass-to-pass accuracy by making use of free Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) signals; 3-5 inch accuracy with OmniSTAR XP/HP subscription service; or 1-inch year-to-year repeatability utilizing RTK corrections, founded on crop and operation requirements.

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Considering the decline in the black duck species in Ohio and elsewhere, the state is making use of GPS technology to discover the main cause behind the black duck’s disappreance. With this move, at a duck pond in Castalia in northwest Ohio, the state Division of Wildlife has built-in three of the birds with radio transmitters in order to keep track of their movements and breeding patterns.

Biologist Dave Sherman with the wildlife agency maintained that officials would like to see if transformation in habitat or migration routes could give details why smaller number of black ducks are seen in Ohio. As a minimum two other black ducks will be provided with transmitters this spring.

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GPS tracking seems to be trendy enough nowadays, as everyone makes the most of this state-of-the-art technology to move around easier even in unknown places. Then there is no doubt that GPS devices have flourished different areas in our lives, comprising our vehicles (in-car GPS navigation systems), our mobile phones (those integrated with a GPS chipset), and even our pockets (palm-sized devices with a built-in GPS chipset). Here comes yet one more concept GPS tracking system that might go a long way in keeping parents and children as one amidst a sea of people at busy public places as parks, supermarkets, and concerts.

The Dandella is it’s name, and GPS can be said its game.

Designers Yong-kai Tan & Priscilla Lui, with an attempt to unravel the problem of losing somebody and having to find them, claim to have invented this portable GPS tracking device called “the Dandella, which is claimed to make the often complex and confusing GPS interface simpler, with loads of disorganized buttons and intimidating numbers. The dandelion-inspired GPS sticks are integrated with a flowerpot vase that sync with your PC select a “home” point in which the device frequently seek to be near.

This portable GPS tracking device also boasts of lighting up and physically bending and pointing towards its location or another Dandella that it has been synchronized with. Should you lose your friend in the crowd, simply activate the Dandella, which will point you the way you are supposed to go to locate them. The latest GPS sticks is also touted to be great for parents who are looking to track of their kids at the mall, or people having a travel in a group who would like to stroll by themselves for a bit and rejoin the rest later.

Sure, you need to set up the Dandella with locations first of all, via a docking system, which has been developed suitably like a basic flower vase with a computer that enables it to be programmed to keep track of a special GPS location or a fellow Dandella. While you are out and about, an activated Dandella after that count on GPS technology to make out its own location in addition to to locate the other location or Dandella that it has been configured for. Besides the latest GPS tracking device can also be handed over to a child or a Luddite, and they’d still intuitively know how to use it to find their way home, as it were.

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The latest JVC KVPX9BN eAvinu GPS, with more than 13 Million searchable Points of Interest (POI), is claimed to simplify and make navigation faster. Complete color touch screen monitor and compact design enable for trouble-free handheld use and for watching movies, which can be stored on the integrated hard disk drive of your GPS.

JVC eAvinu GPS features:

(1) USB SD Card Slot for MP3/WMA/WAV Playback and viewing JPEG/MPEG4 files

(2) 2.0 Input - for Copying MP3/WMA/WAV files to HDD and also JPEG/MPEG4 files

(3) Multiple Route Calculation Options (Avoid Ferries, Highways, or Toll Roads)

(4) Power Output 1.2W x 2 Max. (Speakers)/ 30mW + 30 mW Max. (Phones)

(5) MP3/WMA Compatible with ID3/WMA Tag (HDD/SD Card)

(6) 300 Favorite Destinations in Eight Groups (With Icons)

(7) 3-Language Voice Guidance (Male/Female)

(8) 15 GB of Pre-Loaded Map Navigation Data

(9) JPEG/MPEG4 Compatible (HDD/SD Card)

(10) Multiple Destination Search Functions

(11) WAV Compatible (HDD/SD Card)

(12) 3 GB For Personal File Storage

(13) 3.5 Inch Touch Screen Monitor

(14) P.O.I. (Over 13 Million)

(15) CC Converter

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Taiwan-based Giga-Byte has unveiled its latest GPS-enabled G-Smart q60 during 3GSM World Congress, the product that is claimed to be a UMTS/HSDPA Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone. As maintained by the unwired magazine, the GSmart q60 built-in with its single band UMTS/HSDPA and triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and a thumb keyboard, is all the rage among the business professional. Yes there is a built-in GPS receiver as well, however no information of what type of chip it is going to use.

Check out some of the additional sports of G-Smart q60:

(1) Support for digital TV as well as digital DAB radio
(2) VGA camera for video telephony over UMTS
XScale CPU at 520 MHz
(3) 2.1 MP camera
(4) Bluetooth 2.0
(5) WiFi b/g

As and when I get more info about q60, I will let you know.

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