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For those who want to record their travels for pleasure or have to keep their insurance premiums down out of necessity, GPS pioneers Magellan have announced four new affordable MiVue DashCams for the upcoming CES 2016. To be clear, these aren't navigation devices, but instead record video of journeys, accidents and other unexpected events. The new MiVue 320, MiVue 420, MiVue 430
Continuing GNC's coverage of the Gadget Show Live and the British Inventors' Project, Child Angel is one of the smallest and most advanced child tracking device on the market. Made to be attractive to the child and easy to use in an emergency, the Child Angel wrist-mounted tracker provides accurate location monitoring by combining GPS, GSM and Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation.
It's every parent's nightmare scenario. You turn away from your child in a public place only to turn back and see your child is gone. That's exactly what happened to Andrew Purcell, CEO of Child Angel. Fortunately for Andrew, his child was found quickly and without incident. But the experience gave him the inspiration to create Child Angel, a GPS-enabled
Quadcopters and multi-rotor copters were very much in evidence at the Gadget Show, from the Parrot AR.Drone to tiny nano quadcopters. DJI had one of the most impressive ranges at the show, along with a flight demonstration area on the stand. The newly launched Phantom 2 Vision+ is a quadcopter with a digital video camera payload and the capabilities are
As an over-the-road truck driver, I've been playing around with GPS various devices and mapping software for several years. Maps and GPS's have radically improved over the years. Does the perfect GPS exist? Not yet. So what is the solution? The solution I'm currently using is multiple GPS's running at once. "Isn't that a bit extreme?" you ask. Not really.
Recently I purchased a Belkin "YourType" Folio + Keyboard for my iPad 2. The unit operates via Bluetooth. When I initially began using it I noticed there was a rather prominent problem with rather frequent lost or multiple keystrokes when a given key was only hit once. I didn't know if this was a Bluetooth problem, or a problem with
The Magellan RoadMate 9270T-LM is a 7” inch touch screen GPS aimed at the commercial trucking industry. I’ve spent a lot of time with it in real world situations and at this point feel I can give the unit a fair review. I’ve done a fair amount of experimenting with GPS units aimed at commercial drivers. I live with these