GPS

Santa's on the move, and NORAD is tracking his deliveries

A holiday tradition continues as the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracks Santa's journey around the world on Christmas Eve.

NORAD Santa Tracker

If you occasionally forget where you parked your car, then this GPS Tracker keychain will find it for you. The small device is called ECCO and has a GPS chip built in. The tracker allows you to push a button to memorize exactly where you parked your car. When you're ready to return, you simply push a button and it points you in the right direction.Read More

The arcade scooter designed for video game addicts

Garnet Hertz of the Pasadena Art Center College of Design is installing wheels, motors, and other equipment necessary to turn an OutRun arcade cabinet into an actual running car that renders on-screen what's happening in real life using GPS sensors.Read More

Based on Google Maps data, Google Navigation is pretty much exactly the kind of turn-by-turn navigation solution that you’d expect Google to develop. In addition to existing Google Maps features like traffic information and satellite views, Google Navigation also mixes in plain English searching, searching by voice, and Street View integration that actually allows you to see what your turns will look like.Read More

When the PhotoTrackr was released in 2007, photographers and tourists were ecstatic to be able to have a way to geotag their photos using GPS technology, and while it was a great device, the PhotoTrackr Mini is even better.Read More

Garmin is about to get certified that will allow installation of Garmin’s G1000 flightdeck on certain models of the Cessna Citation private jet.Read More

New Google Street View tricycle goes where no car can go.

Google is bringing Street View to some new and interesting places, like pedestrian malls and trails, and other areas not reachable by car. That's why they've created the Street View trike: a mechanical masterpiece made of 3 bicycle wheels, a mounted Street View camera, and a very athletic cyclist to power it all.Read More

The device notifies you when you are approaching an intersection being monitored by a red light camera.

The detector's GPS compares your automobile's bearings with an internal database of 6,000 red light and speed camera locations in the U.S. and Canada.Read More

Trapster is available for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia/Symbian. It’s had more than 1 million downloads, and is “getting about 50,000 downloads a day right now” to add to that.

TechCrunch

Create Google Street View-like panoramas for $300 using cheap webcams and open-source software.

If you use Google Maps, you're probably familiar with its Street View feature, which shows actual ground-level photos of many cities around the world. West Point graduate Roy D. Ragsdale decided to do the same thing - except on a budget.

For about $300 using eight cheap webcams, a GPS receiver and open-source software, Ragsdale built a system that can do what Google’s Street-View cars do: take images of the world - complete with GPS tags and annotations - and stitch them together into panoramas.Read More