Great New GPS Gadgets

If you don’t know where you are and you don’t know where you’re going, then you are, as they say, lost.

When thrust into the unknown without navigational aid, travelers quickly fall into a state of informational paralysis, the consequences of which can range from simple embarrassment to starvation and death. The need to locate oneself has been the motivating force behind thousands of years of technological innovations: the astrolabe, the sextant, the compass and years of refinement in the science of mapmaking.

By Glenn Derene, from Forbes.com

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