Apartment Therapy Tagged: GPS

Amber Alert GPS Helps Keep Track of Children

We lost power over here in our LA neighborhood for maybe 30-45 minutes, and when the power came back on, we were bombarded with all the hoopla about the Balloon Boy story that's gripped the nation's a...

A Great Harry Potter-Like Location Clock

Almost everyone has seen or read Harry Potter. One of the really cool things in the series is the Weasley Location Clock, telling family members where others are when they can't be found. You'd think ...

Found: DIY Laptop Car Mount

Now, lets pretend for a moment that the idea of mounting a laptop to the dashboard of your car is a good idea. And in this pretend world if we liked to keep things thrifty, we'd suggest to you, this...

SpotLight Pet Locator Keeps Tabs on Your Dog

If you're lucky enough to live someplace where your dog can run free in the yard you more than likely worry about your dog getting out of his large, yet confined space. According to Positioning Anima...

How GPS Should Work: A Horizon-less Manhattan

This is pretty cool: London creative design consultants Schulze & Webb wanted to explore the best way to visually navigate through dense cities. What they came up with is now called "Here & There," an...

Get GPS Navigation On Your DS Lite: Never Get Lost Again

If you thought that GPS navigation was only for these GPS devices that you fit you in your car, you've got another thing coming. Nowadays, phones, watches, PSPs and other mobile devices have access to...

The New Bored-In-The-Car Game: Guess the Gadget

I just got back home to Atlanta after a weekend road trip (24 hours in three days, whew!) to my hometown of Miami to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. As soon as we hit South Florida, aka t...

Security Without a Cable? Let Your Laptop Shout For Help

We all know laptop security as some sort of cable tethering your precious cargo to a desk. We have also blogged tips on keeping your laptop safe while you are out and about, but these are all preventa...

Re(al)view: Insignia NS-CNV20 4.3" GPS

click for more picsWe've been testing our first portable GPS unit for the last two months, using it on interstate trips and also day-to-day commutes, mostly getting to our destinations faster and easi...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

Do You Trust Your GPS Navigator?

We've got some weird news: For the second time, a man in Bedford Hills, New York has trusted his GPS so much that he followed directions onto a set of train tracks last night. He made it out, but the ...

Mio Leap K1: Cell Phone and GPS Hybrid

We know cell phones today can do anything, and that iPhones and Blackberrys already have GPS cabability. But if you want a cell phone that looks like a phone, and a GPS navigator that looks like a GPS...

"Rugged" GPS Navigation for Motorcyclists

We try to accommodate all of the different lifestyles and tastes with our posts. Here's one for the hog-riders: A GPS navigation unit that designed for use on a motorcycle. The Traffic Assist 100 from...

Navigon 7200T: Functional and Cool-To-Look-At Features

GPS navigators are becoming more commonplace than we'd originally thought they might be when we started to see them a few years back. They're the next-wave MP3 player; in the beginning, a few people h...

Pileus Umbrella: The Internet Umbrella

Rainy days are departing (at least here in LA), but that doesn't diminish the wow factor of this tech-loaded umbrella that has a built in camera with wireless internet connection and a screen inside-u...