There’s nothing worse than having a beloved pet run away or get lost and not being able to find them. Putting up “Lost Dog” signs is a nightmare scenario for any pet owner, one that they’ll avoid at all costs.

Thanks to technology, you never have to worry about losing track of your dog again. Simply get one of these Zoombak Advanced GPS Dog Locators and attach it to your dog’s collar. Then, whenever you need to, you can see exactly where it is on a computer using GPS. Simply pay $60 for the first six months of service and then $15 a month after that and you’ll have total peace of mind knowing that you’ll never, ever lose track of your dog. You can even set up a safety zone to be notified if it leaves a certain zone, such as your yard, so you know right away if it gets out. Since your dog can’t call you and tell you its lost, this is the next best thing.

It’s getting to the point where having a GPS navigator is almost a necessity. I mean, who wants to get lost these days? And stuffing paper maps into your glove compartment feels so last century. So you might as well hop on board and get a GPS navigator, and one that does more than just give you directions.

This Garmin nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant comes pre-loaded with North American maps, giving you the info you need to get anywhere in the country. I also can play MP3s, audiobooks from Audible.com, and display JPG image slideshows if you so desire, acting as a little stereo as well as a navigator if your car doesn’t let you plug in your iPod. You can load it up with more maps or multimedia via the SD memory card expansion slot, and it has text-to-speech capabilities to allow it to read you directions out loud. It’s a great navigator, one that’ll ensure you never get lost or bored again.

GPS navigators have come a long way since they first hit the market. The manufacturers have been busy adding much-needed features, making the newest models of GPS navigators a completely worthwhile upgrade if you have an older model.

The new Tomtom GO 930 packs in loads of new features that’ll be sure to please anyone who spends a lot of time in the car. While previous models based your estimated arrival time on posted speed limit signs, it was rarely accurate due to the fact that people rarely actually drive at the posted speed limit either due to speeding or traffic. The GO 930 bases your estimated time on the actual average speeds on the roads instead, making it much more accurate.

It also shows roads with the proper number of lanes, telling you which lane to get into to make your turn at complicated intersections, something that I’m sure anyone with an older GPS unit would kill for. It’ll help avoid wrong turns and just make the directions more clear. And at the end of the day, isn’t that what these things are supposed to be doing in the first place?

The Tomtom Go 930 is coming soon.

If you own a phone that has navigation software built in, you’re already halfway to having the perfect GPS navigation setup in your car. Unfortunately, just your phone won’t cut it, as you need to be able to see and hear your directions while you’re driving without being distracted from keeping your eyes on the road.

What you need to complete the setup is this Parrot 3400 LS-GPS Bluetooth Car Kit + GPS Antenna. It acts as the voice of your phone in your car, but showing you where to go with a map using the GPS in your phone as well as acting as a wireless Bluetooth hands free kit, showing you who’s calling and letting you talk without holding the phone up to your head. It’s easily mountable on your dashboard, keeping it in clear view so you aren’t distracted while you’re trying to drive. It’s the perfect compliment to your phone, bringing out its talents and helping them shine.

Reality comes in all shapes and sizes. In this case, it’s 3.5 inches. The brilliantly-detailed TouchScreen display of the Navigon 2100 GPS Navigator offers Reality View™, an accurate 3D view of complicated highway interchanges that even includes road sign text.

There’s plenty more to like about the 2100. The driving directions are spoken, so you can keep both eyes on the road. Street names are given to you verbally. Menus are easy to understand. There are 2D and 3D map views, and preloaded points of interest appear on the map screen. You can quickly find gas or a bathroom for Junior. The Navigon 2100 even provides automatic speed warnings. And all this comes in a stylish, compact package.

If you add the NAVIGON 2100 Real-Time Traffic service, you will be forewarned of congestion. This optional feature offers up-to-date traffic reports to get you to your destination faster and with less stress.

Lots of us are planning vacations this time of year. Pack a Navigon 2100 along with the sandals and suntan oil; you’ll be glad you did.

Microsoft knows you hate getting stuck in traffic. It’s stressful, it makes you late, and it’s just no fun. Hey, they hate it too! They’re hip; they’re with it. That’s why they’ve been hard at work on a new technology called Clearflow that they’ve just unveiled to the world, a program that’s explicitly designed to keep you out of traffic jams.

While a few GPS navigation systems can show you live traffic reports on your map, they are generally a few minutes behind and not as helpful as you’d like. What Clearflow does is look at traffic data from the past four years for the specific area you’re in, predicting what the current traffic is doing to the traffic of the surrounding areas and intelligently calculating the best route possible based on what it thinks the traffic situation will be like by the time you get there. No more traffic, no more stress, no more being late. Hey, thanks Microsoft!