FujiFilm has unveiled their new GPS Enabled FinePix XP30 digital camera that is touted as the world’s first outdoor compact camera with GPS functionality. The look and feel of this digital camera is pretty cool, it comes with a sturdy looking rugged chassis/casing with 5 different color choices (Black, Silver, Brown, Blue and Green).

Inside the hood, Fujifilm FinePix XP30 has 14.2-MP sensor with CCD-shift image stabilization, 5x optical zoom, as well as face detection and automatic panorama functionality. As for the ruggedness, Fujifilm FinePix XP30 compact camera is waterproof down to 5 meters deep, dustproof, sandproof, freezeproof, as well as shockproof up to 1.5m drop.

FujiFilm FinePix XP30 GPS Compact Camera will be available in this February 2011 for $239.95 per unit.

[via SlashGear]

Fujifilm Launches FinePix XP30 GPS-Enabled Digital Camera
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Magellan RoadMate 1220 GPS Navigation device is getting a good $80 off from the listed price of $159.99 on Amazon. It’s mean that you can now get this GPS Navigator for $79.99 only. This deal will end on June 29th, 2010. No coupon code required to activate the deal. Just go to Amazon page to find the deal.

The newly redesigned Magellan RoadMate 1220 GPS device boasts a 3.5-Inch color touch screen and ultra-thin design, delivering powerful navigation in a compact package. This easy-to-use device gives you confidence while on the road with premium features including: the exclusive OneTouch menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, millions of points of interest, spoken street names, multi-destination routing, and pre-loaded maps of the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

The OneTouch menu with personalized search icons lets you easily bookmark favorite destinations so you can access them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite café or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The RoadMate 1220 navigation device delivers your favorites at your fingertips.

$80 Off – Magellan RoadMate 1220 GPS
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

The latest device called Q1000XT GPS Travel recorder has been released by QStarz. This GPS Recorder will act as your ‘bread crumb trail’ or your personal journey tracker to track your journey and capable of storing up to 400,000 records!

QStarz Q1000XT GPS travel recorder is powered by MTK II high sensitivity chipset at -165dBm, and it has 66 channel of tracking, and can be used continuously for 42-hours.

Here is the full specs of QSTARZ Q1000XT GPS Travel recorder:

• MTK II latest chipset with high sensitivity -165dBm and 66 channel tracking
• ultra lower power consumption up to 42hrs operation
• less than 15 seconds AGPS fix support: download almanac data to realize faster TTFF and positioning under warm start
• stand alone travel recorder to log up to 400,000 records
• POI button design to record your point of interest immediately
• 3-level Switch for easily switch Travel Recorder to LOG or NAV (Navigation + Log) mode
• integrated vibration sensor for smart power management and waypoint saving
• time schedule function to automatically start logging and stop logging by setting multiple time interval
• speed alarm function to prompt over speed status by beeping sound
• update Rate 1~5Hz changeable by utility provided (receiving 5Hz update rate only, logging only 1Hz maximum)
• G-Mouse + Bluetooth in one: wired and wireless GPS receiver
• Fast Position Fix ,Cold start 35s, Warm start 33s,Hot start 1s

If you are interested to get one of this GPS Travel Recorder, you can get it for $129. More details at QSTARZ website.

[via MobileWhack and NaviGadget]

Record Your Journey With QSTARZ Q1000XT GPS Travel Recorder
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Newegg has a great deal for TomTom XXL 530-S GPS navigator. From the listed price of $279.95, Newegg slashed it with $150 super saving deal, leaving the TomTom GPS Navigator at the price mark of $129.95 only! If you are often lost in the road, this TomTom XXL 530-S GPS Navigator might be your best partner to find ways to your destination.

No coupon or promo code needed, $1.99 Shipping fee in the US.

Get TomTom XXL 530-S GPS Navigator for $129.95 ($150 off!)
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Mio, a company who focus on creating GPS unit is introducing a new series of Mio Moov V780 GPS device in the CeBIT 2010. This Mio Moov V780 has the advantage of 7-inch display that could double as a media tablet and MID. The display can hold 800 x480 pixel resolution, and it has a built-in flash-enabled web browser allowing the possibility of viewing online videos via 802.11g, 3G or WiMax connectivity.

Mio Moov V780 is even more thoughtful on this section because they have also included a dedicated Youtube client in the device, together with some other application for email (Microsoft Exchange) and touch enabled music and picture browsers. As for the decoding capability, Mio Moov V780 can decode 720p video with native resolution through a HDMI connection. It also has a digital TV Tuner supporting 1Seg in Japan, T-DMB in Korea and DVB-T om the Europe.

Mio Moov V780 comes with 4GB of built-in memory, but it’s upgradable via microSDHC memory card. Up to date, the availability and price list remains undisclosed.

[via Coated and TechChee]

Mio Moov V780 GPS Unit Doubles As Media Tablet
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

TI WiLink 7.0 is another multi-purpose device that has virtually squeezed the current latest wireless technologies into a single chip. This chip will allow manufacturer to save more space in cell phone electronic board and allow more upcoming mobile phone features to be added.

TI WiLink 7.0 Chipset is practically 50% smaller than the current chipsets (from other brand) that offers similar functionality. Beside it is smaller, it also use 30% less power. This could be resulting in a longer battery life for the mobile phone, and it should have a better wireless connection option for the upcoming cell phone with TI WiLink 7.0 chipset implemented.

[via SlashGear]

TI WiLink 7.0: Stuffed WiFi-N, FM, GPS and Bluetooth 3.0 in Single Chip
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

AIDA, which stand for ‘Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant’ robotic head is a smart GPS Navigation system that will serves you like king when driving. The robot meant to be placed on your car dashboard (so I assume the size is pretty small), showing you a friendly and smiley faces while guiding you through the shortest path to your destination.

Even better, AIDA will also track your driving habit, remember where you have been, your usual destination, and it can even detect your gas level and where is the best place to get refill.

AIDA is still under development by three research groups (MIT SENSElab, MIT’s Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group and Volkswagen Group of America’s Electronics Research Lab) now, so the picture above is one of their prototype for AIDA.

[via Coolest Gadgets and CrunchGear]

AIDA: Robotic Head on Car Dashboard as Your GPS Navigator
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

If you want to watch on your children without really need you at their side, you can use this insignia little buddy child tracker, which is a little GPS device that could inform you in a real-time condition about your children location and whether if they have cross the line they shouldn’t have.

Unlike the concept of Link Child Locator, Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker can be connected to your PC/laptop, or even to your smartphone for mobile ‘watch tower’.

You can customize the Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker to a certain/specific location and time range, so you can control your child to stay on your radar. If they cross the line, the Insignia GPS tracker will alert you with a text message directly to your PC or smartphone. The size is also pretty small, practical and looks pretty dull so your child won’t make it as their toy. This little Children GPS locator will cost you $99.99 to own one. Available in Blue and Green.

[via iTechnews]

Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker to Prevent Child Lost
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Garmin has rolled out a cool GPS device for the keen Cyclist market. The Garmin Edge 500, is a GPS navigator which can track many other things beside pointing ways for your journey with your bicycle. It can show you the speed, distance, times, heart beats and even how many calories has been squeezed out from your body. Garmin Edge is really a cool health GPS Navigator which you can own it for $249.99 only.

A high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix that quickly acquires and maintains satellite reception. It tracks speed, distance, time, GPS position, elevation, calories burned, climb and descent. A barometric altimeter is also included to pinpoint changes in elevation.

Garmin’s Edge 500 can connect wirelessly with ANT+ compatible third-party power meters or pair wirelessly with Garmin speed/cadence sensors and features advanced heart rate-based calorie computation when used with a Garmin heart rate monitor. The device comes with a low-profile, quarter-turn mount that fits easily on the stem or handlebars. It is IPX7 certified for waterproof and has up 18 hours of battery life.

Once your ride’s done, connect Edge 500 to your computer with the included USB cable to analyze your performance. You can also participate in Garmin Connect, a one-stop site for data analysis and sharing. Garmin Edge 500 will be released in Q4 for $249.99, or $349.99 when bundled with a heart rate monitor and speed/cadence sensor.

Found this cool GPS Navigator on these following cool gadget sites:

• The Cool Gadgets
• Coolest Gadgets
• Geeky Gadgets
• iTechnews

Garmin Edge 500 GPS Device for Cyclist
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

An Eco Gadgets will pop out to the surface so user can life a greener life. This times it’s from Vexia with their latest Econav 435 GPS Navigation system which can reduce your vehicle’s fuel consumption up to 33%! Amazing, everything that could save us money and help us do a little contribution to make the earth greener will get double thumbs up from us.

Vexia Econav 435 GPS navigation system comes with a good 4.3-inch touchscreen display, that will display the best driving method or it will inform you the most economical and ecological driving method to arrive at your destination. Vexia Econav 435 GPS Navigator even going further by adding an ‘Accelerator Pedal Indicator’ to show you if you’ve using the accelerator padal correctly. If not, the software inside this GPS navigator will guide you to the right way.

The Vexia Econav 435 will be released this September for £169.99 ($276) in the UK and £219.99 ($357) for a model with European maps. Well, Looks like September is a month for lots of interesting stuffs to pop out!

(Pocket-lint via TechFresh)

Vexia Econav 435 GPS Navigation System with Eco-Features
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

You may ask, what is Super sized? well, most of GPS device has 3 to 5 inch of display as your road navigator. Now if someone is going to release a 7-inch GPS navigator, it should be consider as a super-sized one.

Magellan is going to release that kind of GPS soon enough. They call it Magellan RoadMate 1700, comes with generous 7-inch display and whopping 6-million points of interest, full map of North America, AAA Tour Book, a great text to speech feature and last but not least, a multiple-point routing capability.

According to GPSReview, this Magellan RoadMate 1700 is going to be available soon at the price of $299. You can pre-order it now and the Magellan RoadMate 1700 will be shipped in Fall season.

Coming Soon: Super Sized GPS Magellan RoadMate 1700
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

After releasing the Nokia 5800 phone for music purposes (Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Edition), Nokia has added another version – the Navigation Edition on the 5800 series. Instead of for hearing music (well, you still can do so actually), the cell phone is more about being your guidance to get to your destination with graphical notices or voice-based guides, just like a GPS device would do.

Unlike other Navigation device, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition is ready out of the box, no more software installation, just turn on and you shall be able to use it directly. You will also found one in-car recharging kit for Nokia 5800 Navigation edition. As the extra treatment, the the cell phone also comes with built-in local traffic jams report to help you avoiding crowded area and safely arrive at your destination.

Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition will hit the shelf of Europe later in this year with price tag or €285 or about $408.

(via Hot Hardware and SlashGear)

Nokia Releases 5800 Navigation Edition
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Panasonic will launch two new in-dash GPS devices dubbed as CN-MW200D and CN-WM100D in Japan this September. The device will help you getting your position and displaying the map right on the 7-inch wide LCD screen.

Beside the 7-inch screen, Panasonic CN-MW200D have 2 DIN AV system, Digital TV tuner, DVD, CD and HDD data playback. Meanwhile, the CN-MW100D is getting the same specs as its brother. The only different you may find out is the 1Seg TV tuner instead of Digital TV tuner. Both of them is iPod friendly, so you can turn your iPod stuff with the 7-inch GPS device on-the-go. Pretty similar with FineDrive GPS Navigators.

Pricing is still undisclosed.

(via akihabara)

New Panasonic In-Dash GPS Devices
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Finding lost car doesn’t mean on the stolen car. It’s more about to find your parked car and you’ve totally forgot where the place is. This scenario seems like to be a common issue for us who park our car in a multi-level parking lot. If we don’t be careful and forgot the numbering on the wall, finding back our car would take ages.

But this kind of scenario won’t happen if you have got yourself an Ecco GPS Keychain! So what is it? Well, take a close too to the device before further explanation:

Yep, that the Ecco GPS Keychain. This little GPS gadget would help you mark your car’s position and program it into the device. So when you want to find your car, just a push of button you will get a pointer to let you know where your car is. But this won’t work properly if you are parking in a multi-level parking space.

However, It could help you shortening your searching time (since it can tell you how far you are from the destination) rather than wandering at the parking lot like a crazy man searching for his lost car.

Ecco GPS Keychain is not only functional as your car searching gadget, you can actually use it to mark land point where you could get back later. Pretty useful if you are visiting a new city and you don’t have the map for it. Just mark your hotel and you never worry about lost in the city when you are exploring it.

Just one warning though, never lost this Ecco GPS Keychain or you will be sorry for what you’ve done.

You can get this Ecco GPS Keychain for £69.95 or about $113 from Firebox. Oh, did I mention it’s rechargeable via USB Port?

(via Coolest Gadgets and Crunchgear)

Ecco GPS Keychain: Find Lost Car Made Easy
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

Here is a new Game for your Kids. Geomate Jr GPS is a kid-friendly GPS locator that will direct them to go outside of the home to hunt for treasures. It’s far better than buying them a PS3 which will send to to sit all day long in the couch.

Yes, The treasures here is a log book or sometimes a small prize for your Kids’ effort to find them. Geomate Jr GPS has a pre-programmed geocaches and it has been loaded with 250,000 caches position for your child to explore. You can directly use the Geomate Jr GPS out of the box and it’s very simple to use. Once you switch on, you will see an arrow will pointing to the nearest cached location.

There is only two buttons in Gemoate Jr GPS, one big and one small. The small one will act as the cache maker, and the big button will be the start button. pressing two of them together will causing the device to mark your current location as the starting point or “home” and let you begin to search for the nearest caches for treasures.

Geomate Jr GPS is only about $70. It also have an update kit, but it is not on sale yet.

(via Gadget Lab)

Geomate Jr GPS for Kids
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

iCEphone, sounds like an ice made phone but that’s completely wrong. iCEphone stands for in Case of Emergency phone, a gadget that have everything you needs in your mobile life!

iCEphone is a huge combo between a Micro Notebook, Fully Featured 3D Touchphone, Games Player with multiple triggers and lastly a GPS Satellite Navigator!

iCEphone Micro Notebook is running under Windows Mobile, with display of 3-inch for 240 x 400 resolution display. It also have a full QWERTY keyboard at the other fold of iCEphone, a mouse trackpad and gaming controls at the lower part of the fold.

iCEphone also features a 3G (HSDPA) connection, EDGE, and GPRS in case 3G network is not available. More other tasty features are the two SIMs card slots, 3.1MP camera, Wi-Fi and GPS.

Yep, that’s all about the Phone features. The real hidden gem inside this iCEphone is the emergency medical support system not the features. iCEphone is more on an emergency-focus phones which will provides you a step-by-step instruction to handle emergency medical situations. You can find more description at Medgadget.

iCEphone with Medic Help Software

iCEphone should be on your hand next year for under $1000.

(via SlashGear)

iCEphone – Medical Gadgets that Does Everything
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)

If you are searching for a simple GPS locator for your non-techie friends, child, or even for older persons (grandma, grandpa), this Bustnell Backtrack is going to suit them pretty well because it’s very user friendly with simple display.

Bushnell BackTrack GPS Tracker

As you can see, the design is far more simple than all of the GPS that available at the market. The display is only displaying the position pointer and the distance to reach your marked position. If you remember, it’s similar to the link child locator, but the child locator is more about a moving object rather than a fixed position.

But it’s not bad since the screen is simple to use for almost all age. Only with one button press to mark a spot and following the display pointer to get back to your marked position. You may find out this handy GPS locator for $59.99 only at Amazon.com.

Bustnell BackTrack GPS – Simplest Position Locator
Visit HardwareSphere for more Hot Hardware and Cool Gadgets!
Copyright © 2008-2009 HardwareSphere.com.
(Digital Fingerprint: 898923c3c23813b1a2cd8206318d2f89)