Posts Tagged ‘TomTom’

Top 5 Running Gadgets

Top 5 Running Gadgets

It’s that time of year again. The sun is beginning to shine, the days are getting longer and everyone is proudly plastering social media channels with details on precisely how many miles they’ve run. But wait; there’s plenty more potential to running gadgets than showing off the distance you’ve wheezed…

TomTom GPS Sports Watches: Exercise and Technology – the Perfect Fit?

TomTom GPS Sports Watches: Exercise and Technology – the Perfect Fit?

I’m more active that you might expect for someone who edits a gadget website and spends all day and I love any chance I get to combine exercise and technology. I’ve tried many a pedometer the FitBit One being a current favourite) and I love my Withings wireless scales. But…

Road test: TomTom Via 135 voice controlled sat-nav

Road test: TomTom Via 135 voice controlled sat-nav

After years of being told what to do by our sat-navs, it’s time to talk back. The new TomTom Via 135 comes with ‘Speak & Go’ functionality. This enables you to control the device with your voice and also the ability for hands-free calling via a Bluetooth connected phone. The…

Tom Tom and Renault launch electric car navigation

Tom Tom and Renault launch electric car navigation

At last someone has seen the light and for once produced something entirely useful for the electric car; and that someone is Tom Tom. Not content with dominating the navigation market the navigation superhero has turned its attention to the electric car in a way that is so beneficial to…

TomTom Start 20: TomTom goes easy on first time users

TomTom Start 20: TomTom goes easy on first time users

No one can accuse any reader of latest gadgets to be anything other than comfortable with new technology. But there are, believe it or not, people out there who get sweaty just thinking about it. The mere whisper of wireless free or Bluetooth is enough to send certain individuals diving…

Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom review

Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom review

For the second time this year, a PR company contacted me and said “fancy loosing some weight? Try this out!” I’d be outraged but both times there was a doughnut to my immediate left, waiting to be eaten. The first was the Philips DirectLife Monitor – an odd pedometer thing…

Tom Tom takes multi tasking to a faster level

Tom Tom takes multi tasking to a faster level

Not content with taking the sat nav world by the scruff of the neck and shaking it until all the completion falls away, Tom Tom is seemingly making itself almost indispensible to other hardware manufacturers too. Tom Tom has long led the in car sat navigation market with its wide…

Nike+ SportWatch GPS: Keeping you on track?

Nike+ SportWatch GPS: Keeping you on track?

Nike has teamed up with TomTom, one of the world leaders in GPS mapping systems, to provide runners with the ideal digital performance coach. There are specific runner watches already on the market, Polar for instance, has been in exercise technology for years, but Nike does it with style. Large…

TomTom and NIKE team up to motivate runners

TomTom and NIKE team up to motivate runners

If this is the year you plan to run a marathon (or indeed run around the block in a bid to get fit), here’s a gadget designed to make the experience a bit more interesting. Sports legend Nike has teamed up with satnav specialist TomTom to produce the NIKE+ Sportwatch…

The TomTom PRO 7100 – Specializing sat navs in the run up to Christmas

The TomTom PRO 7100 – Specializing sat navs in the run up to Christmas

Since sat navs first hit the high streets at the turn of the new millennium they have evolved at perhaps a slightly less rapid pace than other technologies in recent years and seem to have remained relatively generic rather than specific. Recognizing a niche in the sat nav market for…

TomTom’s satnav “Traffic Manifesto”

TomTom’s satnav “Traffic Manifesto”

TomTom has announced a philanthropic “Traffic Manifesto”, which explains Europe’s problem with congestion (we may have noticed that on our own) and gives some viable – and some free – solutions. The core philosophy behind the manifesto is that if drivers are better informed about congestion issues, they’ll be better…

Latest Gadgets round up: John Lewis’ top tips, TomTom Yoda and a USB powerbank

Latest Gadgets round up: John Lewis’ top tips, TomTom Yoda and a USB powerbank

Some awesome things make their way into the Latest Gadgets inbox. Here are just a few. John Lewis invited us to take a look at their Christmas range, despite the blazing heat. There was even a fake snow machine battling valiantly to create atmosphere. Being one of the larger combined…