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Lost again this bank holiday!  Going to find my way home with this TomTom XL Sat Nav , £100 with free delivery at Amazon Electricals - a 23% off deal!

Off to France this weekend, so found an amazing satnav deal - Garmin Nuvi 255 WT EUR for £120 from Pixmania, scoring an average of 8.9 from 21 reviews, and with a 2 year warranty!  It’s going to be happy travels!

What do you do when your sense of direction is about as accurate as a Fred Goodwin’s in a financial crisis? You buy a pair of these sat nav shoes, that’s what. Now I know I’ve talked about super shoes before but these are pretty cool. Just enter the postcode in your heel and you’re away.

Get directions from the LED DNav Bubble on the front of your left shoe which will point in the direction you need to walk and beep if you’re heading the wrong way. You can also use a Bluetooth headset so that you don’t walk around sounding like that guy out of Police Academy and you will hear instructions like “bear left at the next McDonalds”.

It runs on two rechargeable AA batteries and it’s speakers are waterproof so jumping in puddles is still very much on the cards. And do you remember the robot legs we featured a couple of months ago? These would go perfectly on the end of them for completely effortless travel!

So next time someone tells you to get lost, just pull up your trouser leg, show off your shoes and walk away, content with the notion that getting lost is very much a thing of the past.

Snatch these up at Firebox for £129.95 / $187.10.

Fancy thousands of radio stations from all over the world in your car? Wish you could listen to the best US rock stations or the most popular Australian channels from the comfort of your own motor. Well, the waiting’s over - the internet car radio was unveiled by Blaupunkt and miRoamer at CES earlier this year and proved a big hit.

The gadget will bring you thousands of global radio stations which you can preset and listen to through the panel in your dashboard. At the moment, internet connectivity is through an external device such as 3G/HSDPA/HSPA devices which then connect to the panel via Bluetooth but later models will come with a built-in modem. However, this Bluetooth connectivity means that you can also access your phone, address book and sat nav through the radio. Anyone else thinking Knight Rider?

The Blaupunkt/miRoamer internet car radio will be launched in Europe late this year for around £275 US $399. It’s sure to be the first in a line of new and exciting in-car technology.

Have you ever felt so knackered after a night out or shopping trip that you felt your own legs didn’t have the energy to take you home? Did you wish that you could just magic yourself to your comfy sofa? Well, the boffins over at Honda have been dabbling in some robot magic and have produced these rather interesting looking robot legs.

They will reduce the load on your legs by supporting your weight as you walk. You just sit on the unicycle-type seat and the leg frames bend like knees. They run on two motors which are controlled by signals from the sensors inside the shoes. It all sounds great but I must say that when I first saw those pictures, I did wonder how the boys might fare…

The legs were initially intended for assembly line workers (to enable them to stay in crouched positions all day) and the elderly (the aging population in Japan - Honda’s mother ship - being another inspiration for the invention). But we could soon see these chained up outside pubs and shopping centres. However, a word of advice, since these legs haven’t been invented with GPS yet, you may also want to invest in a sat nav and make sure you always have a mobile phone at hand : )

It’s half term next week which means many of us will be carting the kids around for days out, going to visit relatives and possibly getting stuck trying to find things to do. Well, while you’re in the car, a little something called Sat-Nanny may be able to help when you need to stop-off somewhere with the kids or if you’re just trying to find fun things to do.

Sat-Nanny is a joint initiative from the folks over at www.childfriendly.co.uk and RoadTour. It’s a programme that works on most sat navs that will let parents know where the nearest child-friendly stops and activities for little tykes are.

Here are a couple of examples of some of the places it will pull up and the info it will give parents:

The Crown- Twickenham: This pub boasts a huge enclosed beer garden, with two fenced off play areas for children of different age groups, making it easy for adults to relax in the knowledge kids are happy and safe.  There is plenty of space for families to eat inside as well, and car parking available.  There is a children’s menu, but the food is limited to the stock options (pizza, fish fingers & macaroni cheese).  Food for adults is typical gastro pub fare - nothing extraordinary, but well priced.  There are baby-changing facilities.

The Mohair Centre- East Sussex: This is definitely a children’s farm with angora goats all ready to be stroked by the kids and other farm animals such as pigs, cows and chickens. In Spring, you’ll be able to watch the lambing and kidding. No kidding! There are also spinning and weaving demonstrations and a nature trail to help the kids, yours not theirs, explore life on the farm.

Hmmm, who was all up for getting it until they read that?!

Well, regardless of the strange lingo, it will help parents find some nice places to take their children. It only costs a one-off fee of £9.95 so it may be worth it. You can download it here: www.roadtour.co.uk.

You can also see a demo here: Sat-Nanny demo

If you’re still relying on traditional methods of navigation that force you to stop every so often to mess around with a big book of roads, treat yourself and get your hands on a nice, shiny satellite navigation system.

Those shoppers over on Reevoo have been making us chuckle this week…

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when freshly charged it is bursting with energy like a frisky mare" Picooz Insecta Night R/C Helicopter

"Spent the best part of a month staring at the screen blankly, being totally lost without the "Start Bar" before i finally cracked and spent 10 mins reading the built in help…And poke me sideways with a large mucky stick if its not all starting to make very pure and perfect sense. Apple I-MAC 24

"I have never been attracted to Yoga until I started Wii Fit…I like the personal trainers, (especially when a handsome young man tells me my "form is fantastic"!!!) Nintendo Wii Fit

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Powerful Blow. Weak suck" Black & Decker GW370 Electric Blower Vac

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dosn’t like to take ferries" Garmin Nuvi 250

If you’re one of the thousands shunning holidaying abroad this summer, chances are you’ll be swanning around the UK instead. This being the case, we can all imagine how much fun the roads will be. And no road trip is complete without the “why can’t you read a map properly argument”. To ease the pain a little, we’ve gone through all the sat nav reviews on Reevoo to see if we can’t save you a few hours of sitting in traffic and some disagreements with your fellow travellers.

It was pretty clear that shoppers love TomToms. They nabbed four places out of the top five highest rated devices.

Here are the results:
1.    TomTom One GB V3 - £95
2.    TomTom ONE XL – £169
3.    Garmin Nuvi 760T - £210
4.    TomTom One Explore - £110
5.    TomTom ONE WE - £116

Reevoo sends review questionnaire emails to shoppers who have bought products from one of its retail partners. In the sat nav questionnaire, owners are asked to rate design, size, accuracy, value for money, ease of use and then give the product an overall rating. You can see all of the category results below.

For value for money, the TomTom One GB V3 is a pretty good all-rounder but shoppers rated the Garmin Nuvi as the most accurate sat nav of the bunch. It depends on your priorities but they all got very good reviews.

If you can’t see one you’re impressed with, you can see all of the other sat nav reviews here.

We hope you all have lovely holidays!

Unveiled at the British Motor Show this week was the waterproof, multi-use navigator from Garmin. The nüvi 500 is great news for cyclists, drivers, walkers, and folks in boats as it can customise itself to whichever form of travel you undertake.  It’s waterproof and built for adventure, providing turn-by-turn directions to get you when you want to be.

The different maps include TOPO for outdoor navigation and Blue Chart cartography for marine usage.  Boat fans can also add the optional BlueChart g2 Vision marine cartography, which will show them wrecks, port plans, inter tidal zones and other clever boaty things.

Walkers will also feel special as there’s a digital elevation map option, compass page and tracklog so that you can track where you’ve been - great for knowing who to blame when you get lost.

All the usual suspects are also onboard (sorry), such as Garmin’s “Where am I” feature, which tells you your exact coordinates, traffic avoidance and millions of points of interest.

You can also navigate by photos by using the “Connect Photos” option which will give you access to Google’s Panoramio.

This would be a great little device for people that want navigation for all their forms of travel.

The nüvi 500 has a 3.5 inch TFT screen, weighs 215g and has a battery life of 8 hours. It’s set to be released in the UK in September for £299.