Most if not all of our outdoor exploring this summer will probably be done in the wilds of Central Park and Prospect Park, so for us ACR Electronics' TerraFix 406 GPS I/O Personal Beacon Locator is total overkill, but in the event that we city folk ever spend anytime in backcountry, a device that can fix our location via GPS and then transmit multiple distress signals to rescuers sounds like a must-have. Besides the Terrafix, there are nine more items on Forbes' New Great GPS Gadgets list, some of which you might already be familiar with from us mentioning them here on Gizmodo.
TerraFix 406 GPS I/O Personal Beacon Locator [ACR Electronics]
10 New Great GPS Gadgets [Forbes, via Wired News]