iPhone Patents Promise to Automate Our Relationships at Last

Unwired View uncovered three new iPhone patents that promise to turn everything from calling grandma on her birthday to turning off your phone in a movie theater into gloriously mindless activities. More »

Dell Mini 10 Lands Full Geolocation, Navigation Options

Starting next week, Dell Mini 10 netbooks will get a new geolocation option—and not just to foil bad guys. It's a proper A-GPS+Wi-Fi system, complete with CoPilot navigation software and network location services from SkyHook. More »

AT&T Wants You to Pay $10 a Month for Their iPhone GPS Navigator

AT&T has released TeleNav's turn-by-turn, voice-enabled GPS navigator for the iPhone at the expected price of $10 a month, proving that they're all going to be expensive, including TomTom's upcoming entry. More »

Navigon GPS Navi iPhone App: Europe-Only Maps, $95 "Special Introduction Price"

We knew that iPhone OS 3.0 would bring navi apps, and that they'd cost plenty. Navigon just popped MobileNavigator Europe—no support for US roads, and a $95 pricetag that will soon go up. More »

First iPhone App with In-App Purchasing: $1 App, $10 Per Month

Bad news: the first app to use in-app pricing in the App Store is a huge ripoff. Gokivo, is a $1 turn-by-turn directions app. Want to actually use it? That'll be $1/minute, $3/10 minutes or $10/month. Updated. More »

The World's Smallest, Potentially Seediest GPS, GSM and RF Tracker

It looks like a nondescript battery, but this is actually the world's smallest GPS, GSM and RF tracking device. More »

Homer Simpson Is Not the Ideal TomTom Voice Skin

TomTom users have the notable perk that they can "skin" their GPS with celebrity voices. But I couldn't ride with Homer Simpson for five minutes before throwing his spastic ass right out the window. Here's the clip: More »

GPS Shoes Help Locate Wandering Alzheimer's Patients

Did you know that Alzheimer's patients frequently suffer what are officially called "critical wandering incidents"? These shoes have an embedded GPS chip that sends an alert via Google Maps so the lost senior can be located. More »

Belkin's TuneCast GPS-Assisted FM Transmitter Is Like Putting a DVR Into a VHS Player

Much like putting a DVR into a VHS player, Belkin's TuneCast Auto Live utilizes really good technology to support something that isn't all that great. More specifically, it uses GPS coordinates and the iPhone (3.0) to identify the best FM frequencies. More »

Ecco Keychain GPS Unit Cures Parked Car Amnesia

If you are anything like me, remembering where you parked your car in a crowded lot requires entirely too much brainpower. The Ecco GPS can help you with that problem in a keychain-sized unit. More »

Garmin 310XT GPS Fitness Watch Deemed the 'King of Training Tools'

So says Wired, the first folks to literally run it through its paces. Waterproofing and sleeker styling compared to its fatty fat fat predecessors are both noted pluses, but the clincher is that the 310XT does, well, ev-er-y-thing. More »

Air Force Twitters on GPS Outage Reports: Calm Down, Civilians

When the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that worldwide GPS performance is likely to degrade in the next few years, lot of people, public and private, kinda flipped. Cue the inevitable about-face, right about...now. More »

Google 'Activating Applications Based on Accelerometer Data' Patent Looks Kind of Terrible

Google's vision for the future of Android evidently includes a system by which your phone adapts to whatever it thinks you're doing based on accelerometer data. Like a newer, more advanced Clippy, in your pocket. More »

Forget About the World of Video Games, Geomate.jr Helps You Explore Our Own World

Nicknamed the "Easy-Bake Oven of handheld GPS devices," the Geomate.jr is a family-friendly device designed to get children out of the house, away from their video games and go geocaching outdoors. More »

GPS May Be Less Accurate in 2010

Due to maintenance issues of our current GPS satellites, geodesist Mike Craymer and his team at Natural Resources Canada have calculated that the accuracy of global positioning systems could start dropping by 2010. More »

TeleNav GPS Navigator For Android Reviewed (Verdict: Impressive)

The guys at KickingTires have put the TeleNav turn-by-turn GPS Navigator for Android and the G1 through its paces and have emerged feeling that the software is impressive, but overpriced. More »

Why TomTom Sucks

TomTom's latest Go 740 Live is piled with features, but I've tested TomToms for five years, and in that time, nobody has fixed the platform's inherent problems. In fact they're only getting worse. More »

Wisconsin Police Can Track You With GPS Without Warrant or Probable Cause

Late last week, a Wisconsin court ruled that its state police can track whoever they wish, suspect or not, without a warrant or even probable cause, using GPS. Eep. More »

London Transport Authority To Test Tracking System That Stops Speeding FROM SPACE

Transport for London is announcing a large-scale trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaption system, which uses preloaded road data and GPS to slow speeders. Basically, the future is everything you were afraid of. More »

Garmin Postpones Nuvifone G60 Until H2, Gets This Close to Earning Lame 'Neverfone' Nickname

The Garmin Nuvifone G60, a Linux-powered, ASUS-built left-field handset that was pretty exciting when it was announced nearly a year and a half ago, will be delayed yet again, says the company's president. More »

Moray Eel Torpedo Hunts Swimmers

This 5-foot long torpedo with a moray eel painted on its sides is the Reusable Unambiguous Swimmer Warning Vehicle. It's designed for one thing: To hunt enemy swimmers at 8 knots. More »

Navigon No Longer Selling Personal GPSs in US

Navigon will no longer be selling PNDs (personal navigation devices) in the US. In a statement released today, the company explains, "Due to the difficult economic environment and the aggressive pricing we have decided to withdraw from the PND business in North America for the time being. We are however not closing down our Chicago office which will continue to serve our automotive and mobile phone businesses in North America." With the rise of the smartphone, I wonder how long it will be until we see some of the bigger GPS manufacturers follow suit. [Navigon via Laptop via SlashGear]

It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones

The days of stealing cellphones are almost over: Stealing a homing beacon is pretty stupid, even for dumb criminals. A woman had her purse snatched—but had Google's Latitude location service running on her cellphone inside. More »

AT&T Introduces Somewhat Creepy FamilyMap Snooping Service

AT&T now offers a $10/month plan that gets you the realtime location of two of your plan's phones ($15/month for five). But unlike other family trackers, this one doesn't appear to need parental permission/notification. More »

GPS-Enabled Inhalers Help Doctors Pinpoint Asthma Triggers and Causes

In order to track possible danger zones that trigger asthma attacks, the Deapartment of Health Sciences of the University of Wiconsin-Madison is working on a GPS-enabled inhaler that could potentially help asthmatics everywhere. More »

Hitomebo GPS Cellphone App Allows You To Record Where You Spot Hot People

A Japanese cellphone application called Hitomebo uses GPS to help you record where you spotted good looking men or women. It also helps facilitate hook-ups. More »

Range Rover 2010's 12-inch Dual View Touchscreen Satisfies Two People at Once

The 510 HP 2010 Range Rover will have a dual view touchscreen, meaning the driver and passenger sees two different images based on their respective angles. More »

Daughter Uses Cellphone GPS to Find Mother Cheating, Father Kills All Kids

Here's a very sad story. A man and his oldest daughter used the GPS locator feature on the wife's phone to track her down and discover she was cheating. He then killed all his kids. More »

Snowmodo: Install Motion X GPS For the IPhone So We Can Track Our Total Skiing Mileage

Saturday, at our Snowmodo reader event, we're going to be tabulating everyone's ski/snowboard runs TOTAL mileage for the day for the entire Gizmodo hivemind. If you have an iphone, use the Motion-x gps app. More »

Apple Considers Having Stolen iPhones Call Police

According to a recent patent filing, Apple has considered implementing security that allows an iPhone to automatically contact authorities when stolen.

Sony HDR-TG5V Handycam: Mini HD Camera Gets GPS

Sony's HDR-TG5V Handycam shoots HD and tells you where you shot it...which is bad news for cave-dwelling terrorists but nifty for family vacations. More »

BlackBerry Gets Turn-By-Turn Directions Tomorrow

BlackBerry users can get loss slightly less frequently starting tomorrow as its first turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for their app store hits for an unspecified amount of dollars. More »