8:22am GPS: Heads Up Display Paints Line On Road
SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Via Springwise a HUD (Heads Up Display) for car GPS units that draws the line of where to drive on your windscreen. It’s called Virtual Cable. The makers of Virtual Cable say they have a better solution. The New York City area start-up has designed a heads-up dash[...] Read More »
11:03pm Garmin Forerunner 405
IRELAND, DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Just out this month it looks like Garmin have tried to combine looks and function. No more cables needed to link up with the computer as the Forerunner 405 communicates wirelessly with your computer. The other major difference is there is now a power saving mode w[...] Read More »
12:25am Gadget: Lifejacket for your Keys, Camera & GPS
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Water-Buoy, a flotation device for your keys has appeared on Springwise, one of my favourite sites for ideas. As featured on BBC’s Dragons’ Den last night, young entrepreneur James Halliburton is bringing an innovative solution to market for boater[...] Read More »
1:40am Friday Links: GPS, Writers Competition, Skydiving with RedBull - did it give him wings?
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Enjoy your Friday links! The stories we never got to talk about: — “He jumped from 40,000ft without a parachute…” Know the lyrics? Travis Pastrana does! This Moto Cross rider (world famous for performing backflips on a motorbike) has jumped out[...] Read More »
7:28pm Review: Nokia 6110 Navigator GPS Phone
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Stephen Nork has just posted his review of the new Nokia 6110 Navigator phone. The phone is as much camera-phone as a GPS handheld unit. Stephen did some great testing of the unit with the free Nokia Sports Tracker software loaded on his Symbian S60 model. Check out th[...] Read More »
8:38am Google Launch “Street View” on Maps
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Google have just launched ‘Street View’ on Google Maps. It appears they have driven around large US cities with a 360 camera mounted on a vehicle taking panoramas every 20 metres. This is fantastic. Try this link to Times Square, New York. Try clicking [...] Read More »
9:16am Gadget: ‘Bones In Motion’ Running GPS on Mobile Phone
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Via Mobiles to Go I came across ‘Bones In Motion‘. It’s an application for on your mobile phone that hooks up with its internal GPS (or a bluetooth one, I suspect). While you’re out running, it will download maps on to your device and plot [...] Read More »

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