Is your Sat Nav accurate enough for you? These devices have been around for a long time now and have got their services down to pretty much a fine art. This means that it is unlikely that one has left you miles from your expected destination lately. However, work which has been carried out in Spain has been said to make in car Sat Nav systems even more accurate. It works by bringing together both a traditional GPS (global positioning system) approach along with a variety of other equipment such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. In fact,...
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TomTom has made the comedic directions of Homer Simpson available on their native iPhone app, they hope that the friendly and encouraging directions from the well known former father of the year will make car journeys a fun filled event. The sat nav giants have struck an official partnership with Fox who have provided original sound bites that can be used in the UK and rest of the world depending on your app version; it costs £3.49 and will work on the new TomTom iPhone map pack. Senior VP of marketing, Alain Pakiry explained: “Homer...
Yesterday we reported on a survey by TomTom that discovered that Geordie and Scottish accent is the most in Great Britain. Today we have received news from Mio Navman who say they have pioneered a quirky system that gives directions in different accents depending on where you are in the country, now that would make journeys more interesting and fun. If it goes into production the software would automatically switch dialects as you entered different counties, regions or countries. Navman say you could expect to hear a good variety of dialects,...
A recent survey by TomTom has discovered that the Geordie accent is the most popular choice for motorists with ‘posh’ accents also making a comeback. The people surveyed explained that more rounded accents, like that of Joanna Lumley are better as it makes for easy listening, especially when being given instructions. Interestingly the Geordie and Scottish accent was also a popular choice, despite being more difficult to understand. I suspect the Geordie accent is popular because it is more lively and friendly, the Scottish accent is...
The AA has dubbed iPod listening pedestrians as iPod zombies and has even gone so far as claiming that they could be the reason for pedestrian related accidents increasing by 5% over the last year. Things could be about to get worse with iPhone zombies too, as the incredibly popular US game MyTown which is like a real world Monopoly game is launched in the UK. Leicester council has basically given the iPad its seal of approval by saying that although they need to be making 1,000 people redundant they will be spending £40,000 on iPads...
TomTom SatNavs have helped lead the way (see what we did there?) for years and as well as offering clear turn by turn instructions and perhaps more importantly to those of us that have to regularly rely on the digital stars to guide us home, they even allow us to download new and more interesting skins and voices. Let’s be honest after a few turns the standard voice becomes dull (no offense to the original voic actor) and lifeless at best so downloading and using a new voice is a good way to add a little extra spark to your journey. Homer...
Satellite navigation firm Garmin has come up with a suitably high-tech dog collar that will allow owners to keep tabs on their hounds if they ever go astray. Garmin’s Astro DC 40 is available in a garish orange, which is a fairly useful visual aid for dog seeking in itself and the black GPS receiver is attached in a durable manner to one side. Garmin assures potential purchasers that the collar is comfortable for the dog as well as being convenient for the owner. The main application of the tracking collar is for keeping tabs on...
GPS sat nav manufacturer TomTom has released what some may regard as one of the most geek-friendly navigation voices of all time, getting the dulcet tones of legendary Star Wars villain Darth Vader into a new add-on voice navigation download. TomTom launched the Darth Vader voice navigation pack on May the 4th, which has traditionally been designated as Star Wars Day by fans of the epic space saga and for the princely sum of £7.95 any TomTom owner can be ordered around by Darth Vader during a journey. A promotional email was circulated...
Owners of smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system will be rejoicing at the news that a beta version of a brand new Google Maps, complete with voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation, has made it across the Atlantic amid absolutely no fanfare. The Google Maps Navigation app is in pre-release form and it first turned up in the US as version 4.1.1 at the beginning of April. Now the app has been proven to be working well on certain UK-owned Android smartphones. The latest Google Maps Navigation app is ostensibly designed...
Its not the first time that Gadgets and Gizmos has brought you news of daft SatNav users (nor will it probably be the last), Matt in July 2008 brought you the sorry tale of ‘Slaves to SatNav’, which no doubt brought some superior smirks from the ‘SatNav non believers’. The latest tale of SatNav disaster is in respect of Robert Jones who managed to follow his SatNav directions to the letter and end up teetering on the edge of a Pennine cliff in his BMW! It took nine hours for the car to be recovered and Police have now decided to...