GPS Watch

GeoBlog = Flickr + Google Map

GeoBloggers is a cool hack that allows Flickr users to associates their photos to a location in google maps. The speed of the map drawing is not that impressive tho.

I have used the comment capability of flickr to associate the location where I took the photo to the photo itself. I am gonna call this "GeoPhoto".

posted by Gireesh @ 4:35 PM 3 comments

A9.com uses GPS

Amazon's A9 adds pictures to yellow pages. Images were first linked to GPS locations which were then tightly linked to street addresses to compensate for GPS inaccuracies.

posted by Gireesh @ 5:38 PM 0 comments

CES 2005 GPS Babies

Garmin


Magellan


Navman


Trimble

posted by Gireesh @ 11:01 AM 0 comments

GPS for Treo 600

Seidio came out with a GPS car kit for Tree 600 powered by the Seidio SGR-300 Wired Receiver. It totally sucks that the cool Treo 600 still doesn't have bluetooth capability even after there was a $5837 bounty to develop a bluetooth driver. Ah well you will have to upgrade to the costlier Treo 650 to use those bluetooth GPS receivers.

posted by Gireesh @ 3:49 PM 1 comments

India, are you ready for this?

By now its old news that the Garmin iQue3600 was launched in India. GPS India must have come out with their own version of the maps to support the new PDA/GPS. They never got back (as expected) when I inquired about the map availability. Another device that caught my attention was the NavTalk GSM. It looks like one of those old clunky cell phones, but its infact a GPS with cell phone capability. This one never got launched in US since GSM standard was never popular here. But now that most of the carriers provide GSM support I wonder if this product has a new market. Color screen, blue tooth and a smaller form factor would be a big plus. Do we have such phones already?

posted by Gireesh @ 2:16 PM 13 comments

SocketCom's Enhanced GPS Nav Kit

Another bluetooth GPS receiver, this time from Socket Communications. They have announced a GPS Nav Kit that makes this receiver work with your bluetooth enabled Pocket PC or laptop. The street price is $249

[Link:] Socket Com Gps Nav Kit

posted by Gireesh @ 5:33 PM 0 comments

Parrot's new CK3300 GPS car kit

Parrot has announced its new CK3300 GPS car kit which improves upon its previous CK3100 kit by adding a 12-channel Fastrax GPS receiver. The kit which would retail for ~$250 includes handsfree bluetooth for mobile phones, an LCD display with phonebook and caller ID and audio through car speakers which can automatically mute the car radio. Of course, you would need a bluetooth enabled PDA or laptop to see your GPS maps.

[Link:] Parrot CK3300

posted by Anil @ 1:59 AM 0 comments