Care to get up close and personal with Niihau? How’s about an overview of Tuvalu? Surely you need a helicopter shot of Pakatoa Island to get your morning started right, yeah? If so, and you’re too lazy to hit up the World Wide Web, there’s a better-than-average chance that an older National Geographic magazine has exactly the elixir you’re searching for. Problem is, sifting through every single issue since 1888 takes a fair bit of time — time you’d rather be spending in an obnoxiously long security line as you await your flight to Ushuaia. Thanks to "modern technology" and "storage innovations," said quandary can now be resolved quite simply. Nat Geo is offering every last piece of information it has ever published on a portable 160GB HDD, and amazingly 100GB is free for you to manually add to the collection. Too bad this $199.95 device wasn’t available before Christmas, but hey, at least you’ve now got something to blow those Santa Bucks on.

ConcordKeystone, in addition to the Keystone Eco Tag, is going to show its Easy Shot Clip video cameras at the CES 2010. Two models are available, the standard Easy Shot Clip is an ultra portable camcorder that has onboard memory for 2 hours of video recording with sound and offers one-button operation while the Easy Shot Clip HD is capable of 720p video recording and comes with a 1.5-inch LCD display.

LG announced in Korea that it is going to show at the CES 2010 the DP570MH mobile digital TV that supports US Mobile DTV standard. The DP570MH not only receive and decode ATSC Mobile DTV broadcasts but also plays DVD discs.

The mobile TV utilizes the company’s LG2160A ATSC-M/H tuner chip. According to LG, more Mobile DTV devices using the chip will be released later by Dell, Kenwood..etc.

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We’ve seen our share of solar powered GPS devices here on Navigadget – so why stop. We present you Solar powered bluetooth GPS receiver from fTech.

You might wonder what if I want to know where I am in the middle of the night? Well do not worry because just like most other GPS devices out there this one also comes with rechargeable batteries and the solar panel is just to extend the life of a single charge. They claim it can last up to 30 hours when the solar panel is activated.

Some of the other specs and features of this solar powered bluetooth GPS receiver include 51 channel MediaTek receiver, 1Hz max update frequency, -158dBm sensitivity, and 45mA power consumption.

We haven’t seen this here in the U.S. yet but if you have seen it at on online retailer re-branded under a different name do let us know.

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Bunch of U.S. Geological Survey researchers decided to put a GPS enabled collar around a wolf – which they named Brutus – and tracked him from July to end of November.

During this time they got updates from the animal every 12 hours for a total of 289 location updates. Considering today even cheap GPS receiver can provide one second updates makes us think they were very conservative about the battery.

They’ve discovered a lot about wolves’ traveling habit. For example the wolf traveled about 1700 miles during this time and the longest run was almost as long as a marathon which Brutus finished under 84 hours. However these are all under-estimates since the calculations are based on 12-hour readings and this wolf probably does not walk along a straight line as seen on this map.

Oh, and if you’re wondering to yourself – how did a wolf make it across that giant body of water – you’re not alone. It was all frozen at the time and could be traveled on foot/paw.

You can read more about the research on the arctic wolves of Ellesmere Island on their blog…

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Garmin just yesterday announced Garmin Oregon 450, and Garmin Oregon 450T. This makes the already crowded Oregon series even more crowded;

But anyhow, back to Garmin Oregon 450, and 450t. They feature a bright 3″ color display, newly added user-selectable dashboards, enhanced track navigation, and also high-speed USB for faster map transfers.

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Blio is software that is enabled for cross-platforms such as the iPhone and PC. Designed by Kurzweil, it “lets you read your ebooks as they’re intended to look on paper”.

Blio gives the user/e-reader access to a book’s rich illustrations, and its text-to-speech capabilities to turn any e-book into an audiobook. This Blio app is probably going to be for free, and it should change the platform for e-book reading next year with all the readers and tablets that are being released.

Philips is pretty good about coming out with new products. They may have been absent from CES last year, but they will have a booth at CES 2010.

They have recently released the SA075 PMP in Beijing. It has 720p playback, and it has a screen with 800 x 480 resolution. Perhaps I’ll see it in Vegas in January. If so, I’ll have to let you know what I think.

PosiMotion (not the best name, we know), has announced a piece of plastic grip for your iPhone and iPod touch, which more or less serves as a “steering wheel” for those racing games on the platform, and should also improve the use of the accelerometer as well. You can attach your phone/ipod vertically or horizontally, and the little thing will retail for $20 when released early next year.

This is bad news for GSM cellphone users. The encryption that protects the transmission of your voice data over the GSM networks, has been cracked by a group of 24 hackers in Berlin. Meaning that the voice calls transmitted over the GSM networks could possibly be eavesdropped or intercepted.

GSM networks actually use the A5/1 algorithm, a 64-bit encryption for voice calls placed over GSM networks. But Nohl, the encryption specialist, has taken the raw binary data and turned them into a 2 terabytes “code book”, which can be used to decode the valid encryption key.

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