The words Polar Bear Swim bring to mind an image of a bunch of half-naked people jumping into frigid, bone chillingly cold water for kicks – maybe even some medicinal cleansing. When real polar bears take a swim, they do it a lot differently, and with GPS tracking technology, scientists have discovered just how much [...]

Yesterday was an important day, it was Valentine’s Day. But, it was also National Condom Awareness Day, and the New York City Health Department took the opportunity, on a day that it’s probably needed the most, to release a Condom Finder Application for GPS enabled phones. You can find condoms in almost any store these [...]

GPS devices can, and really do save lives! A GPS Enabled Beacon, like the one’s available at Ecom Electronics, is credited with providing the coordinates to the rescue team who helped a party of five out of freezing cold water near Tofino in British Columbia, Canada. CBC reports that their fishing boat overturned into the [...]

David Van Sickle is working on a medicinal research idea that includes GPS technology. His research could help many people suffering from asthma. The idea is relatively simple – identify the conditions that trigger an asthma sufferer to use their medicinal inhaler. His test patients, fitted with GPS enabled inhalers, will help Van Sickle identify [...]

Sometimes the best indicator of the quality and the usefulness of a product is the length of time that a manufacturer makes it available without making any major changes to it. The Garmin eTrex H is the successor to one of Garmin’s original handheld GPS devices. The eTrex series of handheld GPS devices have been [...]

Most nations have no other option but to use the US owned Global Positioning System. Using someone else’s system is an alright freebie, but you get what you pay for. If the USA decided to stop continuing to allow free access to their global positioning system, a lot of people, all over the world, would [...]