What is your new year’s resolution? Stop smoking and life healthier is a big hit in recent years. But stop smoking is not enough, we need to do more workouts and burn more calories every day. But how to do all the challenging habit with fun? I have something great for you, the new MOTOACTV fashionable device from Motorola can be your practice companion to reach your goal. Featuring a touch-screen display, the MOTOACTV can track your worksouts and play music at the same time. Let’s jogging and make the practice full of music.

To track and measure all of your workouts including pace, calories burned, distance covered, etc., the MOTOACTV backed with Motorola AccuSense™ technology and GPS. You can even upload your workout data to MOTOACTV.com to analyze and review all the result easily through graphic chart for easy reading. Along with the attractive function, the MOTOACTV also comes with attractive design, it’s very very stylish and fashionable, thanks to the sporty Wrist Strap.
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Recon-Zeal Transcend goggles available in two models with different lens options, Transcend SPPX is fitted with an SPPX polarized and photochromic lens, Transcend SPX features an SPX polarized lens. Transcend goggles provides real-time feedback to the user, including speed, latitude/longitude, altitude, vertical distance travelled, total distance travelled, chrono/stopwatch mode, a run-counter, temperature and time. It is also the only pair of goggles that boasts GPS capabilities, USB charging and data transfer, and post-processing software all with a user-friendly, futuristic interface.

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Vision Localization Systems announced that Keruve 2010+ is available worldwide. The main goal of this device is to improve life quality of Alzheimer’s disease patients, their families and caregivers. Keruve 2010+ has two terminals, a wrist GPS watch for the person with Alzheimer´s designed to look as a regular watch and a portable receiver for the family or caregiver. The portable receiver will show immediately the position over a map just by pressing a button on the screen.

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On May 27, 2010 Los Angeles attorney, Thomas Kirschbaum was found dead in the water off of Long Beach. The 57-year-old man was wearing a life jacket when the Long Beach police found him. With no signs of injury the cause of death is still a mystery, and police continue to investigate the strange incident. What Thomas Kirschbaum didn’t know when he set out for a day of boating off the coast was that he could have protected himself in advance with a GPS Tracker. Since no one knew where he was there was no way they could have known that he was in trouble. If his location was known his death could have been avoided.

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Suitable for cycling, running, and for vehicle use, the Holux’s GPSport 245 outdor GPS boasts IPX-6 water proof. Highlights: Display position coordinates, speed, altitude, time, distance & calorie; Supports speed meter, track log, finder; Synchronize track logs and geo-tagged photos with map; Save log data and 200,000 waypoints; Low power consumption; operate up to 18/28 hours (backlight off/on); Back light support; Convenient for both day and night use; Support Multi-languages.

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Many have legitimately raised privacy concerns about government use of GPS tracking devices to investigate and prosecute various offenses. While laws in most states have not evolved to reflect the rapidly advancing technology on the market today, judges are nonetheless forced to apply legal principles to the use of GPS trackers on private citizens. However, many state and local governments are discovering the benefits of keeping tabs on their own employees with GPS trackers. Here are two recent instances where this level of high-tech accountability proved very useful.

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It’s easy to look at nearly any particular industry and see how deeply GPS tracking devices have impacted workers and managers the world over. The automobile industry, law enforcement, researchers, manufacturers—nearly every industry that must stay on the edge of the technological curve has used GPS tracking to be safer and more efficient. The agricultural community is of course no exception, and indeed, large farms present one of the greatest opportunities for GPS tracking to show its worth. Here are just a few ways farmers are using GPS tracking to improve their work and way of life.

Livestock tracking. The days of tracking by brand are over. Now a simple GPS tracking device can keep tabs on individual or even herds of cattle. Not only does this prevent theft, but GPS also gives farmers an idea of where their cattle prefer to graze, and how they might be guided to greener and more sustainable pastures. Researchers at the University of New England are now studying how farmers could best use GPS tracking technology to manage their grazing operations responsibly.

Crop mapping. Farmers can also use GPS tracking technology to map out their fields, thereby improving fertilization, crop dusting, and other treatments. Some farms in Texas are already employing an advanced tractor-mounted mapping technology that tests electrical conductivity in the soil and records data onto a map via GPS. Farmers can then fertilize their crops according—putting extra over fields needing more treatment and putting less over those areas that require less attention.

The same technology can also aid in targeted crop dusting. Farmers have long been wary of using excess weed or insect killers, as some chemicals can have harmful effects over time as they build up. Using GPS tracking technology, farmers can scout their fields and note particular areas most affected by unwanted visitors. The location data can then guide crop dusters in targeting specific trouble spots—and not too much else.

Security. Farmers are often forced to deal with high incidences of theft—whether of equipment or supplies—and GPS tracking can help lower the risk, or at least raise the chance of recovery. Many farmers view their GPS trackers as a bit of low-cost theft insurance, and if they ever discover some of their machinery stolen, the technology will certainly seem like a worthwhile investment.

Like nearly every other industry, agriculture has greatly benefitted from thoughtful and innovative applications of GPS tracking technology.

In Computex Taipei 2010, Vunex launched one of the latest personal guiding system, the X-Guider. The X-Guider is an outdoor hand held device made for sports / recreational use. It incorporates the GPS technology to the most simple application: Record your position, guide you to a position, record a trip, and calculate the speed etc. The main use is to help users to find their ways while enjoying outdoor activities. It can be a standalone product without a PC, but it can also plan ahead before heading out, and/or record a trip/points and navigated on PC.

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