The little child tracker is able to keep track of the real-time condition of your children whether they’ve cross the line that they shouldn’t have. The Insignia child tracker is even able to work with your computer or smartphone, let you use the computer or smartphone as the “watch tower” to keep an eye of your child’s location.

Similar to other products, the Insignia child tracker also allows you to set a specific location and time range, so you can control your child to stay within your set boundary. The device is able to alert you by sending an email to your smartphone or PC once the kids have cross the line. Such a little GPS child tracker will run you $100, but it definitely gives you peace of mind. Two versions are available which are Blue and Green.

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The iPhone Arider is best to work with iPhone 3GS and the user needs to wear a retractable head-mounted display, which can be adjusted as per user’s convenience and this headset is able to display the navigation provided by the iPhone 3GS on the screen. iPhone 3GS is equipped with a compass and supports GPS, which can work well with the iPhone Arider for the needed navigation. And the images displayed by the headset is able to rotate according to the driver’s head movements.

Besides providing navigation, the iPhone Arider also allows the users to make and receive calls via Bluetooth using the head-mounted headset. You can also use it access Twitter via the TwitBird Pro application.

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A new GPS application for Sony PSP was demonstrated by Zenrin at CEATEC 09. The Zenrin GSP app for PSP allows the map view in 2D mode but it automatically switches into 3D mode when arriving to a complex intersection to provide detailed models of the surrounding and a clear path. The PSP GPS app may also be useful for kids to easily find their way home by simply using the PSP in their hands. Or it could be helpful too for tourists who’re game addicts.

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Besides telling time, the GPS watch can be used as a data logger, photo tagger, and a receiver. You can even use this watch to locate where your car is, by simply pushing a button. This useful when you’ve forgotten where you’ve parked your car in a huge parking space. The GPS watch has two intelligent LEDs that will direct you back to the point of where you car is or point of interest that you may have logged.

The GPS data logger function on the watch allows you to record GPS data stored on a trip. It records your position, attitude, and speed along the trip. You can then hook up the watch to a computer via USB port for further analysis of your trip and even have it shown on Google Earth or Google Maps by using the iTravel Data Logger software. The features at a glance are as follows:

Buy online, ChinaVasion, $78

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The reviewer at MobileCrunch deems Navigon app on iPhone is as good as any hardware GPS device. The app presents a fully-featured North American GPS system with an intuitive interface and NAVTEQ maps. It has a fun UI which shows large, bold directions, upcoming street signs, and a little horizontal line as the representation of the direction you’re headed to. It’s also got a voice prompt to tell you how far you’re from your destination.

The application uses iPhone UI to select addresses but falls into Navigon UI to show the directions. The app has all the maps, which is great if you’re driving through a dead zone. This app works with the GPS chip of the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. It also allows you to grab addresses from your contact list. In short, Navigon Mobile Navigator app makes your iPhone a GPS device. It’s also a hint that smartphones one day will take over every small device with dedicated function.

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The Ambulator were created by GTX Corp and Aetrex Worldwide. If you have someone in your life, who has been suffering from dementia or other kind of memory loss, then the Ambulator GOS shoes should come in handy to keep him or her in your awareness.

The Ambulator GPS shoes are handy as well for sue in hospitals to prevent dementia patients from being lost in big hospital buildings. The GPS system of these shoes are concealed nicely, giving it very slim chance for the paranoid patient to tear it away.

These GPS shoes are priced at $200-300 a pair, depending upon features and will be available next Spring. In addition, there will be a monthly fee of $18 for the monitoring service on the wearer.

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The CoPilot 8 GPS app provides turn-by-turn voice directions, street maps of USA and Canada stored on your iPhone. Some more the app also links to your address book, showing your friends and contacts on the map of your iPhone, thanks to the LiveLink feature of this app.

Similar to other GPS turn-by-turn apps, the CoPilot 8 also comes in a huge size of more than 1GB. So it’ll take you at least few hours for downloading this app.

Buy online, iTunes, $35

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The Samsung ST1000 comes in a compact body that packs with a 12.2 megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom Schneider-Kreuznach lens and a 3.5-inch touchscreen display that supports finger gestures. It also supports various photo-taking technologies such as image stabilization, face detection (blink, smile detections etc), touch focus, 10 shooting modes and sensitivity ranging from ISO 80 to 4800.

The ST1000 camera also supports WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. And there is also a telltale “GPS” module at the top. This camera will be officially unveiled on August 13.

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The i-gotU travel logger also comes with easy-to-use yet powerful software for you to organize and view your trip memories. Besides, the user will get a free Travel Blog Space on www.a-trip.com for easily sharing those photos on 2D map or 3D virtual reality view. Attached below are some examples of the photos of the users displayed on their A-trip.com travel blogs. This little travel GPS logger costs only $70 and you can get it from Amazon.

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The Blue GPS shoes are equipped with Bluetooth connectivity. The shoes are able to communicate by needing you to simply push a button on the shoe, which it will then link to the contacts on your cellphone and call those contacts. The push button can also link to 911 during emergency. These GPS shoes are kind of useful when you’ve lost your way in your journey.

The Blue GPS also makes use of GPS technology, so when the button is pushed, a signal is sent to ID Conex which then provides GPS tracking in the shoe. If for some reason the monitoring station cannot be reached, it’ll then trigger the call to the cops.

The Blue GPS shoes have also been crowned the “Social Networking Shoe”, as the users wearing them can be tracked on Facebook. But somehow, it sounds like it can be misused, causing the users to lose some kind of privacy. These shoes are now available in Latin America for a price tag of $150.

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The Traveler 137 smartphone allows turn by turn navigation and also has voice prompt capability. The handset is also equipped with a number of navigation buttons located below its 800×480 touchscreen. It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro and is ready for future upgrade to version 6.5.

Other goodies are a 3-megapixel camera on the back and a 0.3 megapixel camera on the front for video calls. It’s also got 256MB of RAM and 512MB of flash ROM and allows memory expansion via its microSD/SDHC slot.

The Traveler 137 smartphone is to be shipped unlocked, with support of quad-band for GSM, EDGE and tri-band 3G/UMTS and even high-speed connectivity HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA (2 Mbps). Suggested retail price of this device is $600. For those who’re willing to be bound by a T-Mobile 2-year contract will get a $250 discount.

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This helmet is called U-met, is able to communicate with a base station via 3G network or LAN for receiving images and location data. This helmet is recommended to be used by security personnel, rescue workers, and fire fighters. No information about its price and the actual date of availability.

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Some more Trac-King uses two AA batteries for its power, making it very unlikely to run out of power as AA batteries can be obtained from almost any shops. The Trac-King GPS device is able to track every second of your movement with accuracy about few meters.

This device is able to keep a regular track of useful information including time, addresses, speed of travel and stop duration, keeping the user to be in touch with his kin every second while he is on the road. The user can also choose from maps, route displays and Google Earth images. And the stored data can be downloaded to a PC via USB port.

The little downside would be if you were asked by your wife to bring this device along everywhere you go, then you’d be just like being watched by her for every second of your movement, which may sound terrible for some men.

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Humminbird RF35 is a fish finder watch that offers GPS capabilities to help you locate the spots that have most fishes in the sea. This watch features a 1.25 inch display and a remote sonar sensor that is able to trace fishes within a 75-foot radius.

Once fishes are detected they’re displayed on the watch in real time, so you can lay your hook to the right spots immediately. This watch is only effective for up to depths of 120 feet thanks to a 90-degree sonar beam.

This watch is very easy to operate, you can always wear it on your wrist, as it simply functions as a normal watch while you’re out of the water. Other features are display backlighting and pulse-lit advanced sensor which is suitable for fishing.

Buy online, $80, Humminbird

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The asthma inhaler is equipped with a GPS receiver which can then tell the exact location of the asthmatics, every time when they use their rescue inhalers. By collecting the information of the location where they are, when asthma attacks, researchers will then be able to find out from the location, what actually triggers the asthma attacks. For example a frequent asthma attacks at a local park could mean an excess of allergens and pet dander.

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With the a digital TV receiver, the ThinkNavi T7 is able to let you navigate and watch digital TV at the same time. The 7-inch screen shall be comfortable enough for you to keep some times while you’re stuck in a traffic jam.

The T7 GPS device has a SiRF II GPS chip, 500Mhz CPU, A/V-in port and 1x USB 2.0. It’ll be sold in Europe and is loaded with maps for 45 countries and supports 20 languages.

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The Kogan GPS watch also comes with a speedometer that tells you how fast you’re going and in which direction. Some other goodies are built-in Bluetooth, temperature sensor, pedometer, altimeter, stopwatch and alarm function. This Kogan watch costs only $85.

Buy online, $85, Kogan

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The GETAC PS535E is a ruggedized PDA that is best used for those who’re so much keen on exploring the nature. This rugged device is supposed to be a great companion for those mappers, surveyors, scientists, and even secret agents.

The ruggedized device is packed with GPS and smartphone functions. It’s also equipped with an altimeter and compass in addition to the GPS system. The device is powered by a 400MHz Samsung S3C2440A processor, with built-in 64MB RAM and 2GB of NAND flash onboard storage but there is no word if it’s expandable.

This rugged device runs Windows 5.0 Premium as the operating system, features an Transflective TFT 3.5-inch touchscreen, which is readable even under the hot sun. It also supports Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.

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The Nuvifone M20 is a dual-band 3.5G/tri-band GSM phone that runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro as the operating system. It’s also equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. This phone has a full-desktop browser and assisted by the high download speed of 3.5G that can reach 7.2Mbps, it shall be good to surf the Internet on this phone.

Since Garmin is one of the makers of this phone, means the phone shouldn’t be short of any GPS function. The GPS module on this phone comes with a preloaded maps and POIs for North America, Eastern and Western Europe and also some other regions.

The M20 is also an exceptionally good entertainment device that is equipped with a a 2.8-in TFT touch lens display, built-in microphone and speakers, built-in 4GB/8GB My Storage, and ActiveSync for MS Outlook, MS Office and multi-media synchronization.

The VGA display boasts a resolution of 640×480 which is best for watching video and flipping through photographs. The phone also features a 3-megapixel camera, with the GPS functionality, it can also automatically geotag every image with the exact latitude and longitude of the location where it’s taken. You can save those images taken on the phone or email it to friends on the spot, since it supports 3.5G which should be pretty speedy while emailing with image attachments. The geotagging of images also makes it so easy to navigate to where the image was taken.

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This Epson Infineon GPS transmitter/receiver is built upon a 65nm manufacturing process. It measures only 2.8 × 2.9mm which is about 25% smaller than any a-GPS on the market. Despite the tiny size, it’ able to communicate with satellites even indoors.

If this little chip is embedded in your any of your gadgets, there is no surprise that it can trace you everywhere you go regardless you’re outdoor or indoor. You may start worring about your privacy with such a tiny GPS chip around these days. Perhaps you may need a GPS tracker defense to seal you up, when this chip is commonly available in the market.

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