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Thinkware iNAVI K2 GPS Makes Navigation Look Like a Game

While we were raving about Dash Express' neat real-time info, Thinkware has launched a new navigation device that packs so much 3D graphic goodness its display looks like Crazy Taxi. The iNAVI K2's amazingly detailed 3D maps are rendered on its 4.8-inch 800 x 480 pixel screen in a photo-realistic way, and it even uses a three-axis sensor to detect the absolute direction changes of your car. This speeds up its positioning system, and makes it sound even more like a games console. It uses an 8GB SDHC memory, with 256MB of its own RAM, has multimedia functions, photo viewing and, yes, plays games. Out in Korea (where else?) for $556. [Aving]

11:12 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Kit Eaton
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iTheophilus at 11:40 AM on 03/27/08
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Photorealistic?
ajm3 at 11:43 AM on 03/27/08
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OK, how does it know where the buildings are and what they look like? One of the pictures shows a name on a business! That would be an awful big data file!
xaflatoonx at 11:49 AM on 03/27/08
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Man oh man...

if this gives traffic updates as well...

500 bucks is not a bad price at all... I will buy it today!!
ANoel at 12:09 PM on 03/27/08
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@ajm3:
I wondered exactly the same thing.
This looks like the first GPS kit I'd consider buying if those stills are truly representative.
(for my bike)
Geisrud at 12:10 PM on 03/27/08
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sure is purdy
lafond66 at 12:10 PM on 03/27/08
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I wish they had these units in the US. They've been around in Japan for a while now.
Buford T. Justice at 12:11 PM on 03/27/08
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Chances of this working in the US? ZZZZZZZZZZZERO! Korea only.
Geisrud at 12:11 PM on 03/27/08
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Of course, you'll have to drive a yellow VW Bug so you're not confused by the icon.
SneakerFiend at 12:29 PM on 03/27/08
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@ajm3: It did after all say it uses a 8GB SDHC. Im guessing it downloads the necessary information for a 10mile radius or maybe a mile radius and refreshes it after every minute.
I say everyminute because 60mph=1mile a minute or maybe it has the traffic monitor too and lets you know which is the best route.
Why cant we get something this good instead of getting crappy old devices and late technology???
The Great Aussie Evil at 12:40 PM on 03/27/08
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WANT WANT WANT
itchytooth at 01:02 PM on 03/27/08
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I imagine the 3D building maps are only available in parts of major cities - like in Google Earth.

Incorporating an accelerometer is super smart.
Sleeper_Service at 01:08 PM on 03/27/08
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Crazy Taxi!

Me like.
Babysealclubber at 01:17 PM on 03/27/08
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@itchytooth: It's three axis too, for all those crazy three dimensional flips we do so often...
itchytooth at 01:20 PM on 03/27/08
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@Babysealclubber: Yes! I can finally, precisely geo-tag the photos that I've taken as my SUV is rolling across the freeway.
Dook_In_The_Urinal at 01:31 PM on 03/27/08
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Jeesus that thing is hawt. I want to have its litter.
gizak at 02:51 PM on 03/27/08
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just 3 words: DOLBY FCKIN DIGITAL !!!
cmsjustin at 03:16 PM on 03/27/08
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I already have enough problems trying to look at the road when I steer and not try to drive the little arrow on my TomTom.