There is just something about sports that challenges yourself to be the best you can be at all times each time you participate, unless you’re in it for health purposes of course. What’s the whole point of a sport if you aren’t going to do your level best whenever you step up to the plate, so to speak? For folks who always look towards improving their golf scores on the greens, there are tons of training aids to choose from, and with a little help from the Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 won’t hurt either. This device offers the latest in golf GPS technology, where it gives you the exact computer readout of the distance to the green for each shot you play – perfect for folks who always seem to come up short on their approach shots or hit too hard at all times.

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LiveViewGPS might not be a name familiar to many where GPS navigation devices are concerned, but that doesn’t mean they have nothing to contribute to the cause. In fact, LiveViewGPS has just rolled out the NavTrac RTV10, a revolutionary device that merges both powerful GPS navigation with critical tracking and communications tools. While the NavTrac RTV10 might resemble a standard GPS on-dash system, it does more than get you from point A to point B as it is able to offer a bunch of innovative functions which is able to transcend conventional GPS devices, making it useful for a wide range of businesses and market segments.

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Trust us on this – a shoe is not just an ordinary piece of walking equipment that you wear so that you won’t end up with blisters at the end of the day after following your other half through endless miles of shopping malls. Not when your feet are treated to the wonders of the Sat Nav Shoes. Not only does each pair help you walk around comfortably without causing potential health problems, they also feature GPS technology that help guide you from postcode to postcode, making us wonder whether postmen who walk through rural areas will find this to be much more useful compared to a conventional map. How in tarnation does a pair of Sat Nav Shoes work, anyways? We were stumped initially, but thank the heavens for a pretty comprehensive product description.

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ProLink Solutions is a name not to be trifled with when it comes to GPS golf course management systems as well as digital out-of-home on-course advertising, hence their announcement of introducing the new GameStar GPS system that is currently being used at The Hollows Golf Club (Montpelier, Va.). For folks who love hitting a fair number of balls on the green, The Hollows Golf Club is but a short drive from downtown Richmond, nestled in scenic and historic Hanover County, near Scotchtown, the home of Patrick Henry. It has been touted to be one of the areas most user-friendly links, where you will be able to indulge in three 9-hole courses (Road, Lake, and Cottage) that were specially designed to accommodate golfers of all skill levels.

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Garmin International Inc. is a common name when it comes to satellite navigation, and this time round they show that they do not only care about ordinary drivers like you and I, but they also have the interests of over-the-road, long-haul navigation and delivery trucks in their hearts by announcing the new nüvi 465T. Unveiled at the Mid America Truck Show that is currently going on till the 21st, the Garmin nüvi 465T is able to support multiple truck profiles and features advanced routing and guidance to support truck-related road restrictions including height, width, length, weight and hazardous materials. All you need to do is clue in the device by entering the truck’s dimensions and load restrictions, and the nüvi 465T will get to work straight away by adjusting the many routes ahead based on your truck’s profile. Pretty neat – hopefully the map data is updated though as you wouldn’t want to drive into a tunnel or under a bridge that is too low for your rig just because Garmin says so.

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On Christmas Day, I had a dog disappear on us, prompting me to spend most of my holiday putting up “have you seen this dog?” notices all over the neighborhood. Notices which did absolutely no good whatsoever (the woman who found him called the number on his tag two days later). After he left us to go to that great puppy farm in the sky, we got another dog who proved to be every bit the escape artist as his predecessor. So, believe me when I tell you that a small GPS tag like the SNOOPER PET TRACKER GPSS is of great interest to me and every other dog owner who’s spent many a late night driving around neighborhoods whistling like a crazy person.

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The latest fad for taking pictures on vacation, especially a hike, is geotagging, a way of cataloguing your pictures with GPS coordinates in case you want to find the place where you visited again.

Unfortunately, some people don’t have a geotagging feature on their present model of digital camera, but you can compensate for it with the i-gotU GT-120.

The i-gotU is a GPS tagger that the user puts on his or her person somewhere. Once it is switched on, it will record not only where you were, but when. If the clock on your camera is synced with the clock on the i-gotU, then you will have an accurate record of where you have been.

Of course, you will have to match the time of the picture with the time on the i-gotU later, but you basically have a poor-man’s (or woman’s) geotagging system. All you need to do is plug in the i-gotU into your USB slot on your PC (i-gotU is not Mac compatible), and you can upload the coordinates of your trip into Google Maps/Earth, Flickr, or any other social networking site.

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Parents can’t keep a keen eye on their kids all day long, and they have even more to worry about when young adults in the home get their driving license (and a sense of restricted freedom), thinking that they are able to roam the world and drive at breakneck speeds while feeling invincible. Everyone goes through that rite of passage in their lives, but for parents who suspect that their kids might be doing something else, there is always the Driving Activity Reporter.

This is the device that monitors a car’s activity and provides a detailed report of places, routes, and speeds traveled. It uses a 16-channel GPS receiver to track the movements of the car to which it is attached (internally or externally, using the device’s built-in magnet for covert purposes), storing locations on its built-in flash memory that holds up to 100 hours of driving activity. Removed from the car, the reporter connects to your computer’s USB port, and the included software allows you to view the time, date, and precise locations visited–even how fast a driver was traveling–using animated digital street maps. The data can also be examined using Google Earth (a free application from the Internet) for precise satellite pictures of locations visited. Durable, water-resistant frame enables operation between -15° to 185° F. Two AAA lithium batteries (required) provide up to three weeks of operation; device will enter sleep mode if it does not detect car movement within two minutes.

Sounds like $229.95 worth spending, and suspicious spouses will also find this to be an extremely useful tool.