Category — Miscellaneous GPS Devices

PaPeRo: A Robotic Connection Between You And Your In-Car GPS

by Justin

Always a country to innovate and try something new, Japan is working on putting a robot between you and your car navigation system. More specifically, Japan-based NEC Corp. demonstrated PaPeRo, a human machine interface, at AT International 2008 and PaPeRo just happens to be that robotic go-between. PaPeRo is a home robot used as a human interface machine that happens to understand you when you tell it, for example, you’re looking to head to Tokyo. The robot can recogize your voice and upload the spoken info to its server via a home network. Once uploaded to the server, the robot crunches the bit and bytes mathematically taking into consideration your previous conversations.

From this the robot can supposedly determine the best route from your current location to Tokyo, transmitting that information to your in-car navigation system. In fact once you hop in your car you’ll find PaPeRo right on your navigator’s screen confirming the transmission of its instructions have been transmitted to the vehicle. Pretty wild, eh? We think plain ol’ voice recognition built in to the GPS unit performing the same function is just a whole lot simpler though!

via techon

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July 25, 2008 No Comments

Mercury MD5000 In-Dash GPS Navigator With Mobile Broadband Faster-Than-HSDPA

by Justin

Korea-based Mercury’s MD5000 in-dash navigator is nothing less than impressive. Not only is it packed with high-end features but it features support for KT WiBro wireless broadband which enables greater-than-HSDPA-speeds when your vehicle is traveling at speeds up to 120km/h. As for those high-end features, they include:

Monahan 624 Mhz processor
LG DMB chipset
PIP chipset
Mappy United software (still working on figuring out where this comes from)
Picture-out-picture, picture-in-picture, navigation-in-picture
Drag and drop functions
Trip display dedicated to QUUS, OPIRUS, SM5/7, WINSTORM, TOSCA
Black box accident recorder (12 seconds before accident, 6 seconds after)
FM radio tuner
AV out for rear camera and DVD player

The Mercury MD5000 is available in Korea for 1, 000, 000 KRW or about$991 in American dollars. Check out more pics by clicking the read link.

via aving

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July 25, 2008 No Comments

SmartMirror Rearview Mirror GPS System: Another Variation On The Typical Automotive GPS

by Justin

Some pundits are betting on the demise of the portable navigation system in favor of GPS-enabled mobile phones, so we were surprised to see one company to move the automotive GPS system from one spot on the windshield to another. That other spot being the rearview mirror. The SmartMirror GPS system, previously known as the DS400GB, replaces the conventional rearview mirror. It looks exactly the same but has a rear-facing cam input, Navigon Mobile Navigator 6.5 inside, a 4-inch touchscreen, reality view, integrated speakers, Bluetooth, and an SD card slot. The SmartMirror will be available August 1 for $799.

via gizmodo