Transportation Tech on TFTS - Page 14

Pioneer have taken the wraps off no less than four new GPS navigation systems (or SatNav’s if you prefer), in the form of the HRZ099, HRZ088, HRV022 and the HRV01, which boast 7” LCD displays and, depending on the model, integrated 40GB capacity HDDs, 1 Seg TV and multimedia playback …

We’ve all heard the saying, “Driving me up the wall!” which is something your sibling or boss can do to you … but now you can literally drive up the wall by yourself! That’s right … The Air Hog Zero Gravity R/C defies all that we know from our good …

I’m starting to feel like it’s the silly season with all these strange USB drives floating around. This time I’d like to introduce to you the custom 1956 Ford Victoria USB Flash Drive.

Shown as a concept product at this year’s CES, Clarion has just released full specifications of its up and coming Intel Atom powered ClarionMiND Mobile Internet Navigation Device which, apart from serving as a fully fledged GPS also allows for full web browsing as well as digital music and video …

Italian company AvMap have announced that their Geosat 6 Drive Safe Satellite Navigation System, which comes with integrated breathalyzer allowing you to establish quite where you are concerning alcohol drink drive limits, as initially developed for the Peugeot 107 Sweet Years, is now available as a stand alone unit – …

As far as GPS units go, the min Kapten portable GPS system from Kapsys is certainly a somewhat novel device in featuring a screen-free design whilst offering purely vocalised directions in order to assist you in navigating to your chosen destination.

Firstly, to put our usual flippancy aside, we should make it clear that there’s no signs that any forthcoming electric car from James ‘whatever I touch turns to gold’ Dyson will in fact clean roads whilst in transit but it is known that Sir Dyson is now working on developing …

Of the many in-car hands free Bluetooth set-ups currently available the Supertooth 3 in-car 2.4GHz Bluetooth v2.0 speakerphone from BlueAnt is certainly one of the most appealing we’ve come across from an aesthetic perspective, but BlueAnt’s Supertooth 3’s beauty in far from merely skin deep.

Looking like the aftermath of passing the Batmobile through a rather large mangle, this jet powered Flatmobile, which even comes complete with Batmobile inspired missile tips placed either side of the front number plate and measures in at a mere 48cm (19”) in height, looks set to enter the Guinness …

Sony has unveiled two new Xplod in-car CD audio systems in the form of the Xplod CDX-GT920U and the Xplod CDX-GT620U in-dash units, both of which have been designed from the ground up very much with digital media in mind in offering a host of digital audio file format support …

TomTom has announced that five models from its new flagship Go Series x30 range of satnavs, successors to TomTom’s GO x20 range, have just been made available in the UK – namely the GO 930 Traffic, GO 730, GO 730 Traffic, GO 530 and Go 530 Traffic – boasting features …