The Draganfly series of heli cams have been impressive, but the just announced X6 is freaking amazing. The triple-tipped carbon fiber body has two carbon rotors on each end. The design allows it to move in all directions rapidly, provide enough control to zip around indoors yet resist up to 18 miles per hour of wind.

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IOpener's GPS technology is made so you can take real-time data from an F1 race and use it to race against those same drivers in a video game. By placing combination of Differential GPS and an Inertial Management Unit on a car, it can track its location accurate to 30cm and get the data to gamers in under 5 seconds.

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When astronauts finally get back to the moon sometime between now and 2020, they will have an advantage that their predecessors did not—GPS. Well, it's not technically GPS given the fact that there are no satellites orbiting the moon, but the astronauts may not know the difference. The new system being developed by Ohio State researcher Ron Li will "rely on signals from a set of sensors including lunar beacons, stereo cameras, and orbital imaging sensors" to simulate GPS.

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Talk about turning lemons into Lemonade. The parents of 18-year-old Shaun Malone, placed a GPS tracking device into his car to make sure he was obeying traffic laws. The model they installed would email them if he ever went over the speed limit and they could check in real time to make sure he was where he said he was going to be. So, when Shaun was caught by a police radar going 62 in a 45 mph zone last summer, his parents were shocked because they had data to refute the claim by police that their teenager was speeding.

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More than 100 doctors were considering quitting general practice because of changes that would boost the roles of nurses and allied professionals, a survey has shown.
The national survey of 359 general practitioners found 39 per cent of those polled were considering early retirement because of ''issues currently in the reform spotlight''.

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If you ever dreamed as a kid (or as an adult) of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true ... sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next big thing. Word on the street is Mio Technology is prepping to release a Knight Rider-themed portable navigation system that uses the actual voice of William Daniels (the actor who provided the voice of KITT).

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Belying everything that gadgets stand for, this GPS device is far from the cold, sleek, stiff form factor that we usually associate a GPS device with. The robotic teddy bear has been created by iXs Research Corporation and it tells you directions plus points out the way too. The prototype robot stands 30 centimeters (1 ft) tall and has 6 joints in its arms and neck. It doubles up as an alcohol sensor too and urges safety by issuing statements like "You haven't been drinking, have you?"

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The Flaik armband promises to maximize your bragging rights on the ski slopes by recording jump airtime using a GPS system embedded in an armband. It can also keep tabs on measuring speed, distance, and altitude—data that is automatically uploaded to Flaik servers and can be accessed anytime via a web-enabled device. There is even a social and safety component included in the system that will allow you to track friends and their stats and receive SMS messages when you wander beyond the resorts boundaries.

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We loved the Dash Express GPS so much we called it the traffic terminator. After falling to $400, now it's only $300 at Amazon, a fairly sweet (or hot, as Amazon calls it) deal for an awesome GPS navigator. [Amazon, Thanks Lich!]

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I never thought reality can be so much more entertaining than fiction. After you read what a 30 year old unemployed man did you will agree with me too. Mitsuhisa Kobayashi, of Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, stole 8 luxury vehicles from a rental car company. Well it's not exciting that he stole these vehicles, millons of cars are stolen everyday; its how he did it. The story goes that he was previously a car assembly worker and used his specialist knowledge to install a small GPS device, or a cell phone equipped with GPS, inside the cars, in locations that would carry an electric current even when the engine was turned off.

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This year, we at CNET.com.au have fielded a lot of questions from you, our readers, as well friends and family, about GPS navigators. It seems that Australia has finally caught the GPS wave, which has already swept through Europe and North America. But before you make the leap, let's have a look at the pros and cons of ditching the Melway because, let's be frank, satellite navigation isn't for everyone.

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ProLink Solutions announced that its Brickyard Crossing Golf Course located at Indianapolis, Ind. will now feature the ProLink Solutions ProStar GPS system which has to date, seen action at many of the world’s most famous golf courses. This is one nifty way a GPS system will be able to help folks out in everyday life instead of just offering you the best route to and from work. After all, having a GPS system with you on the golf course will greatly aid your game and help save time in the long run.

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Cowon has just released in Korea a new version of the N3 with a wood frame made from Burl Walnut. The N3 features an Alchemy AU1250 600Mhz CPU, 7 ” touchscreen with 16.7M colors, PMP functions (audio/video/image), electronic dictionary, PIP (Picture In Picture) and a GPS system.

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With prime motorcycling weather nearly here, TomTom has prepped an update to bring a handful of new features to its RIDER 2nd Edition. Aside from including Map Share technology and the "Help Me" menu, the enhanced 2nd Edition GPS will also provide a latest map guarantee, trip statistics and itinerary planning.

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This 7″ GPS navigation system - Plenio VXA-3000 - with a list price of $600 currently sells for $199 on Amazon. We can’t say much about the Plenio brand but if you’re looking for a budget portable GPS navigation system with a large display this could be it.

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