Clock displays made of Nixie tubes aren’t that strange anymore. There have been a proliferation of such clocks but none may be more accurate than this handmade version from Etsy. The acrylic protective cover looks professionally-done while the Nixie tubes give a retro-look with that warm, orange glow. The tubes may look like vacuum tubes found in old amps but these Nixies don’t run as hot so you won’t need to worry about burning the house down. To prevent the display from burning in the tubes, the date scrolls every minute, acting like a screensaver (or tube saver for this matter). The GPS receiver then guarantees the accuracy. $400.

Finding your car in an impossibly large parking spot is a problem that some of us have faced at one point or another. You can try using blind faith and intuition in locating your car or you could try this high-tech way. The Travel Honey is a GPS-enabled location finder which will help you find what you’re looking for using science and not black magic. Just follow arrows on the gadget – continuous red means you must keep going, then when the red light blinks, you’re getting hot (at least 50 meters away), and when it turns blue, you’re just within 15 meters of what you’re looking for. The Travel Honey can also act as a GPS dongle for your PC, just plug it in any available USB drive and let the accompanying iTravel software manage your traveling logs. Very useful for photo tagging your location or logging your travel patterns.$54.

Some things just go well together; peas and carrots, rum and coke, digital camera and GPS. Garmin combines two useful gadgets into one nifty device with the Oregon 550 and 550T handheld GPS receiver. The touchscreen GPS comes with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus digital camera, with geo-tagger of course. Known for their durability and portability, you’ll get a Garmin product with rugged features, waterproof, and easy enough to use even by beginners. The GPS comes with a 3-axis compass, touchscreen that’s sunlight-readable, built-in altimeter, and preloaded maps for the entire US topography. Downloading your geotagged photos is made easy via USB while the 850 MB internal memory is expandable when you use a microSD. With all the do-it-all gadgets around, you’d be hard pressed to find a more useful multi-function device than this latest Oregon from Garmin. $500+.

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If you feel that your workout regime is slowly becoming an exercise in futility, then maybe it’s time you change your workout partner and substitute him/her with a watch. The Garmin Forerunner 405CX watch can help you track your progress using GPS to record your pace, distance, time, and even your heart rate. This makes monitoring your calorie consumption easier. You can even race the onboard Forerunner Virtual Partner to challenge your time and improve your workout schedule. Control of the watch is made simpler, just tap the bezel to change screens and view the different watch functions. After your workout, you can download the data for later analysis on your progress or share your workout patterns and locations to other Forerunner users. $370.

This is a 3.5 inch portable GPS that was before selling at $180 is now available for $100 bucks and shipping is included! Would you believe that kind of deal? It’s easy to use right out of the box and also has preloaded maps of the USA and at the same time gives you turn-by turn directions. Even more it has instant map updates. So what are you waiting for? $100.

Planning on going on a picnic for the holidays? Just make sure you have the DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 GPS. With dual-core processors, 32-channel GPS receivers, 500 MB of onboard flash memory, the PN-40 will make sure that using this GPS unit will be as easy and as seamless as reading a printed map. It also comes with a 3-axis compass with accelerometer so you can read your bearings no matter where your position may be and there is a sensitive barometric altimeter to check your altitude. $400.

Yeah, you’re reading it right. Garmin, the GPS people are releasing a cell phone with a cool interface. Who knows how well it’ll compete with the iPhone, but we’ll see. It features the phone function of course, as well as a whole slew of Garmin GPS stuff, web browser, instant messenging, camera, mp3, etc. The Garmin Nuvifone will be available Q3 2008, and seems to be more useful for people on the go than the iPhone.