Navman has a new model portable/in-car GPS system, the model iCN750. This device is unconventional in that it’s image-driven. Instead of, or more probably, as well as, working from a regular Points of Interest database, the device can also work with geocoded images, ie those with associated latitude and longitude data.

The example given is the Eiffel Tower … simply select the destination’s image on the device, and it will plot a route for you on the screen. The geocoded picture of the Eiffel Tower first got onto the iCN750 in one of two ways. Either it was downloaded from the company’s NavPix website of famous landmarks & other points of interest -or- you were there previously and took a picture of the place with the iCN750’s on-board camera.

Nice, but the unkind might be tempted to describe the device as GPS for the illiterate.

Navman’s iCN720 and iCN750 to Provide World-First - Navman Press Release, March 30, 2006 - Via Trusted Reviews

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