A rainy morning can be very useful, provided that I coudln’t go with the bike I decided to build a mount for my GPS ina safe and cheap way. I had seen some home-made mounts but they were too heavy, metal parts, …, and why not with a plastic bottle?
By: chapuzas
Celluloid Signal Combo put together a cool site that uses geolocation to show local video locations and the idea is that you’ll watch the videos on the spots on the map. Cool!
We created each mobile video to be watched at a specific location in Portland that relates to it. For example, the Pioneer Courthouse Square is matched to the mobile video of George Olsen. If you go there to watch George Olsen and His Orchestra, you will be at the site of the former Hotel Portland where the band was playing when they were discovered and taken to stardom in in New York. - Link
Instead of placing the map screen for your navigation in the center console where you have to take your eyes off the road, VDO Dayton’s MS5700 places it right up into the rear view mirror, where you’re “supposed” to be looking anyway when you’re driving.
The unit has all of Europe’s maps stored on a dual-layer DVD, plus has 9 languages, 21 voices, 2D/3D maps, and a 4″ display on your RVM.
VDO Dayton MS5700 [TsunamiDuit]
Earlier this week we first heard about the PSP camera and GPS unit. We thought we we’re going to have to wait until the Tokyo Game Show next month to see it, but no-no. Here are some of the first pictures of these accessories. Hit the jump for more images.
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For those that don’t want to wait for GPS on the PSP, you can always do-it-yourself.
PSP GPS Pics Emerge [DigitalBattle]
We’ve spoken of the R2H before but now that’s it’s officially been unveiled, let’s the bubbly fly! Running on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with Touch Pack software and centered around a 7-inch touch screen, the R2H boasts a couple of features that are appreciated, save for the paltry 256MB of RAM built-in. The UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC, natch) has a fingerprint authentication capability so only you, the one true owner, can access the R2H.
Bluetooth 2.0 is found on the UMPC as is 802.11a/b/g and a built-in “high-resolution” Web cam. Plus there’s GPS, since globe-trotting UMPC users need to know their exact coordinates at all times.
The R2H, 900MHz Celeron M processor and all, still doesn’t have a set price, nor a release date. But it has been officially announced, which makes everything nicey nice.
Press Release [ASUSTeK Computer]
Next month’s Tokyo Game Show (you know, the video game expo that wasn’t killed) will see the official introduction of a camera and GPS module for the Sony PSP. Also making an appearance will be the navigation software used by the GPS receiver, but then again, you probably could have guessed that. No pictures (or, what’s that called…oh! concrete information) have been released just yet, but when the show kicks off on September 22, expect Sony to pull out all the stops in an effort to revive its floundering handheld.
Sony PSP getting Camera and GPS module next month [New Launches]
DK EMD will release the XPIN MX-430 GPS/entertainment device next week. It’s a GPS navigator, powered by the SiRF-III chip and at the same time, it’s a video player sporting DMB and DVD/Divx connectivity. The GPS/Video/Thing has two gigabytes of flash memory built-in with an SD slot supporting more.
The design element of merit: different antennas for the GPS and DMB to increase receiving rates. It would be like having two ears…I mean eyes…ok…not legs…
No US release yet.
Product Info [via mobliewhack]
You can easily make a better GPS bike mount than Garmin can - and you can do it for free! My Garmin bike mount snapped in the middle of a trip, so i scrounged around the back of the car and turned up an innertube and a thick car-washing sponge - that’s all you need! after a bit of creative wrapping, the best gps bike mount ever was devised. i’ve since done some serious off-road riding with it, and i can authoritatively say that the mount shown below is the most functionally perfect GPS bike mount ever. it is 100% vibration & rattle free, the gps does not budge at all, it’s lightweight, inexpensive, and very quick to put the gps on and off the bike. you can build the entire mount in under 5 minutes.
Some background: up to now I’ve used the garmin mounts for my current 76-series unit, and for my older Etrex, and only had endless problems with them. vibration is a big problem with all the Garmin mounts, especially with the larger GPS units like the 76’s. the GPS mount vibrates constantly making an annoying rattling sound which is very distracting. on top of that the GPS has varying sensitivity to shock, with the etrex it would constantly shut off when i hit bumps, the 76 is a bit better although i still had to hack it to make it totally shock-proof. and of course, the 76 mount ultimately just snapped when i hit a big bump.
By: dan
The GPS Stix Daughter board for the Gumstix comes set up for passive antennas only. In order to get it to work with a passive antenna you need to make a small (perhaps a little too small) modification.
By: afosterw
Wow, Sony has a little GPS device that will sync/tag your photos with the location they were taken (via a time stamp and software) - back in 2004 I used a GPS and a hacked camera to do the same thing, well, a DIY blackbox for cars - it was an ugly hack but worked! - Link.
