New Garmin FR60 Comes in Two Styles

Womens FR60 in Lilac

Men’s FR60 in Black

The new Garmin FR60 Fitness watches are available in two styles, a chunky version for men and a more slimline version for women.  The womens’ versions are in black and lilac while the mens’ are offered in red and black.  They also come with a new heart rate monitor [...]

Birmingham Mapped By GPS Volunteers

What do Vienna, Berlin, Canberra, Birmingham and Paris have in common?  They have all been mapped entirely by volunteers collecting GPS data.
Openstreetmap Foundation have 85, 000 volunteers worldwide, but it took 100 in Birmingham 4 years to pinpoint the data with hand held GPS which included over 700 bus stops, 300 post boxes and 300 [...]

Sat Navs and Common Sense

 
Once again the lack of common sense has struck a troubled world of sat navs in two and related incidents.
 
In Nottingham last Tuesday, a driver following her car sat nav instructions ignored no access to cars signs and managed to get her car stuck on tram tracks. The incident disrupted trams at the side of [...]

Garmin Forerunner 205 Price To Increase

The popular Garmin Forerunner 205 sports gps is faced with a price increase in February, due, we are told, to the weakening of Sterling on the currency markets.

This water resistant, high sensitivity training aid helps you track your progress both in training and later with its Training Center® software. It automatically pauses when you do [...]

Garmin Price Rises

The price of Garmin Sat Navs and GPS products are due to increase on the 1st of January 2009 due to the exchange rate fluctuations that have reduced the value of the pound by one third in the last few weeks.
 
Garmin, one of the leading producers of GPS and sat now units, have a very [...]