The TwoNav GPS tracking device can utilize user-generated maps for use on the road or off. Features include:

• Turn by turn voice guidance
• Tele Atlas maps from around the world
• Open nearly all the different types of maps you may already have (satellite pictures, topographic maps, orthophotos, urban maps, free Internet maps)
• 530 Mhz CPU with 3D (processor unknown)
• 3,5″, high definition color, transflective touchscreen
• SirfIII GPS chip, compass, barometer, thermometer
• 4GB RAM
• 10-20 hours use time

More information can be found on TwoNav website, including a video of their device undergoing an impressive test in water.

The new iPhone 3.0 OS will let developers embed maps in applications with a public API to allow pan and zoom, custom annotations, current location, and geocoding.

They’re enabling developers to use core location as the basis ofturn-by-turn directions applications. Core location gives your location with either GPS, WiFi, or cell tower triangulation. Developers can now build a turn-by-turn direction using real time location from core location. However there’s one catch! B.Y.O.M. Bring your own maps. Due to licensing Apple can not pass on the rights to use built-in maps tiles.

ARIS is a project to research the different ways that mobile learning may take place.

ARIS is a modular system that runs in browser enabled devices with a small local client to interface into the hardware, such as the GPS or camera. The back-end and game editor runs on a traditional PHP/MySQL server. All code is open-source under the MIT GNU license.

Cloud Engines’ Pogoplug is a simple and relatively cheap box that plugs into an external hard drive or flash drive via USB, and also into your home’s Internet connection.

The Pogoplug then puts the hard drive on the Web, as well as on your local network. Any computer in your home can access it as a shared drive, and people outside can also connect to it over the Web. It sounds like a very quick and simple way to put files online for friends to see.

Instead of having to open ports on your router, or configure a NAS for Web access, with Pogoplug you just go to the company’s Web site, enter the identifying code from your device (presumably, it’s stamped on it somewhere), and then the Pogoplug servers will set up the routing for you and give you your device’s Web address.

Other promised features include an iPhone interface (for upload as well as viewing), and an open API for developers.

Natural User Interface (NUI) is a Swedish innovative emerging technology company specializing in commercially available advanced multi-touch software, hardware and service solutions. NUI’s solutions can convert an ordinary surface into an interactive, appealing and intelligent display that creates a stunning user experience.