This glove, designed by Du Tran Nguyen at Monash University, turns the back of your hand into a GPS receiver created to allow you to track your position at all times on its e-paper display.

It is designed for athletes, mainly runners, to be able to plan out routes and track their speed and other relevant information. Feedback from the glove on the display or from a vibrating alert can let them know if they are going too slow or too fast, or if there is a turn coming up. The system is fully customizable.

The glove can also communicate with other Vies via Bluetooth as well as send out an SOS in case of an emergency.

Although it certainly looks cool, we doubt many people have a necessity for a glove like the Vie. However, some rich runners could definitely benefit from a gadget like this.

Toyota has developed a system that automatically puts on a car’s brakes when it expects a stop sign. The Navi Brake Assist system works by combining data from the GPS system and a rear-mounted camera to know exactly when a stop sign is coming up and using that data to help you come to a stop at the perfect spot.

It sounds a bit unsafe, but the system uses the camera to cross-reference road markings with the locations of stop signs it expects to make sure the car is exactly where it thinks it is. Once the car is within 100 meters of a stop sign, the Navi Brake Assist signals with a sound and soon after starts applying the brakes on its own.

A system like this is hard to get right as any sort of software bugs could mean huge trouble. The system is undergoing trials in four Japanese cities right now, so we’ll see how well it really works.

A new device dubbed Modu wants to be your only gadget. Modu is a barebones cellphone which can slide into other gadgets such as a media player, a GPS, or a stylish keypad for the cellphone.

The device can be completely modified so there are almost unlimited possibilities for what it can do and look like. Although simply changing the skin of the cell phone is one option, it’s also possible to turn the phone into just about anything else. An anything else with calling ability, that is.

It appears that Modu is trying to take on big competitors such as the iPhone. However, instead of trying to have it all in one, it is trying to put one into all.

Although the pictures are rendered and the phone is a concept for now, Modu has a release date of October 1st set in Israel, Italy, and Russia. Of course it would make its way to the US soon after as most gadgets do. The price is said to be around $300 for the Modu and two jackets. There will be a total of 10 jackets available at launch.

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Today Garmin announced their brand new nüvifone, a GSM HSDPA smartphone running Garmin’s own operating system centered around GPS navigation.

The phone will feature a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with three primary icons displayed on it - “Call,” “Search,” and “View Map.”

As far as data, the nüvifone will use a 3.5G connection to power an integrated web browser, data connectivity, personal messaging, and personal navigation functions. The device will also tap into Google local search to provide all sorts of points of interest close to the user.

“The nüvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and function in a single mobile device,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s president and COO. “This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users around the world have been longing for - a single device that does it all.”

We’re excited to see this thing on the shelves in late 2008. It looks like it has great potential to compete with the iPhone, especially if it’s priced just right.