Last month we reported that some engineers are trying to make such a motorcycle helmet that can navigate. But in the mean time, Sat-nav firm Garmin has made a portable Head-Up Display (HUD) for cars that projects turn-by-turn directions on to a vehicle's windscreen.
Introducing the Garmin's Zumo 665 Widescreen Navigator specially built for the Motorcycle rider. Now get ready for the ultimate adventure on new route and explore your city and go for a long ride in a unknown destination with the Zumo 665. The features includes navigator with stereo Bluetooth and XM satellite radio, weather and traffic.
Garmin brings nüvi 3490LMT FREE lifetime map updates entitle you to receive up to 4 map data updates per year. The most comprehensive navigation capabilities available. And at just 9 mm, it’s also our thinnest navigator yet. when and as such updates are made available on the Garmin website.
The large screen nüvi 1490LMT comes with free Lifetime Maps and Traffic and offers multiple-point routing and Lane Assist with junction view to help you manage busy highway interchanges. It announces streets by name, has hands-free calling compatibility and pedestrian navigation options. The ecoRoute feature calculates a more fuel-efficient route.
Garmin has unveiled its latest wrist-worn Non-GPS marvel for those who don’t treat exercise as a dirty word, the Garmin FR70 Fitness Watch and the FR70 uses ANT+ to talk to other exercise equipment, such as the bundled heart rate monitor. The fitness watch can track the time you’ve been working out, along with your heart rate and how many calories you’ve burned and it can track your speed and distance while walking, jogging or running. The pair will be available in the UK, starting in November for £129 / €139 ($197) and pairing the watch with a wireless foot pod will clue you in on speed, distance and cadence during your training sessions..................
With Oregon 450 you can really get in touch with nature. This next-generation handheld features a rugged, sunlight-readable touchscreen, along with a built-in basemap with shaded relief, a high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, 3-axis electronic compass, microSD card slot, picture viewer and more. You can even exchange tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches wirelessly between similar units. Touch and go. Oregon 450 leads the way with a tough, 3" diagonal, sunlight-readable, color, touchscreen display that offers crystal-clear, enhanced colors and high-resolution images. Its easy-to-use interface means youll spend more time enjoying the outdoors and less time searching for information. With user-selectable dashboards, you can customize the appearance of your display. Both durable and waterproof, Oregon 450 is built to withstand the elements. Bumps, dust, dirt, humidity and water are no match for this rugged navigator.
Garmin has unveiled a new watch that is dubbed the ultimate multisport training experience, which is the Garmin Forerunner 910XT and the watch is a GPS enabled and can detail swim metrics and tracks distance as well. The watch is low profile so you can get a wetsuit on and off easily while wearing it and the watch can also be fitted with a mount for bike handlebars and has a battery inside good for 20 hours of use. Garmin also includes support for wireless ANT+ sensors and the orerunner 910XT will be released sometime this quarter at $399.99.................
Garmin introduced with it's two new member of the aera family, the aera 796 and aera 795. The 796 sports a seven-inch, 480 x 800 capacitive touchscreen features Garmin's 3D Vision technology. 3D Vision to electronic charts and weather data, it's almost like having a glass cockpit that you can fit in your flight bag. The GPS position and the terrain-alerting database to recreate a behind-the-aircraft perspective view of the topographic landscape. The aera 795 Atlantic and Pacific are pre-loaded with VFR reporting points (VRPs), AC-U-KWIK international airport directory data and obstacles where available. This Aviation Navigators the 796 and 795 for the respective prices of $2,500 and $2,200. Checkout the press release bellow for more features.
Finally, a GPS-enabled training device that isn't afraid of the water. The rugged Forerunner 310XT is the triathlete's indispensable training tool--a GPS-enabled, swim-proof trainer that tracks bike and run data and sends it wirelessly to your computer. This multi-sport device has up to 20 hours of battery life, tracks distance, pace and heart rate (optional), and goes from wrist to bike in seconds.
Garmin has added some new concepts to the standard navigation apps already present on the iPhone, the StreetPilot onDemand, which is designed for the urban user, with provided routing that includes public transportation and wraps bus and train schedules into the usual GPS features. This is a full navigation app with offline maps that you can buy for just 99 cents (the first time) and the nly catch is that it can be used with its full features for only 30 days. After that, you can add another 30 days for $2.99, a full year for $29.99, or use the app with limited functionality and this kind of pricing makes the app a good choice for people who travel to different parts of the world and know that they only need to use the navigation there for a short period of time...............