Here's another interesting product from Sony Electronics: the GPS-CS1K. This GPS device will help you map out the places you've been - using the digital photos you yourself took.

How does it work? Using the time stamp from any of Sony's digital cameras or camcorders and the time and location recordings from the GPS-CS1 GPS device, you can create a map to showcase your globe-trotting. You just have to transfer the photos you took to a computer and import the logged data from the GPS device before the GPS Image Tracker software synchronizes the information.

With the help of the Picture Motion Browser software included in the latest Sony digicams, your online map will have your photos as virtual markers of the places you've visited. Cool, huh? Just imagine pictures you've taken with faces of your friends or relatives popping up whenever you click locations like Barcelona or Florida on the map.

The 12-channel GPS device - which weighs two ounces, is 3 1/2-inches long and comes with a carabiner to easily attach to your bag or belt - will cost around $135 and will be available starting September.

The market of GPS navigation units is becoming intensively competitive, its likely that companies will continue to add newer and more diverse functions to their line of products. Navman has done this, and began with an inclusive camera. With their new top of the line system, the ICN 750, they have included a 1.3 MP camera, which offers more functions than just picture taking. The NavPix software not only allows you to take pictures and place a GPS tag with them so you where you took them, but also plans are being made in the future to incorporate downloadable tour routes, with pictures. The way these functions are unique, are that they allow a user to click on a picture and get instant directions to where they can see that landmark.

Hardware wise, the ICN 750 packs a crisp 4" 480 x 272 widescreen display, which is of course touchscreen, and is bigger than most rival screens allowing more data to be presented. The battery allows over 120 minutes of use, the processor is an Intel PXZ270 312MHZ, and is packed with 64MB RAM and a 4GB hard drive. The GPS chipset is a fast SiRF Star III, which from a cold start takes around about a minute to acquire location. It is almost half the weight of rival systems, and costs a fraction too. At $700, this is great for a top of the range system.

     
    

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