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GPS units usually don’t use real, actual images for navigation purposes, rather just display a road and signs. However, NDrive has managed to get images of the United Kingdom and Ireland - no word on exactly how they did this. Unfortunately, it won’t be available in other markets, only in the UK and Ireland.

Otherwise, it’s pretty much an average GPS, coming with a 4.3-inch TFT LCD touchscreen with a 480 x 272 resolution, audio playback, video playback, photo display, e-book reader, game support, an FM transmitter and Bluetooth capabilities for hands-free calling. Additionally, memory can be expanded via SDHC cards, and the G800 has support for many formats including WMA9, MP3, WAV, WMV, AVI, ASF, JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TXT. Another neat thing is that if you live in other parts of Europe, you can buy maps for those countries. For NDrive to incorporate real images for every place is pretty amazing, no word either on how much internal space these images take up.

The G800 is set to cost 268 Euros (around $420 US) and is currently available.

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GPS’ usually don’t do much other than provide directions, and some of the advanced systems can play video, music, and get live TV or traffic updates. However, this new GPS features something never before seen in GPS, an integrated breathalyser. I’m not sure how this would actually help, if you’re drunk and still want to drive you’re probably going to want to drive anyway regardless if the GPS tells you you are drunk, but its still a nice option.

Basically, the G400, by NDrive, measures how much alcohol per liter there is in your blood and then displays that information on the screen. If only this GPS could prevent the car from starting up if you have been drinking a bit too much, then this would be really useful feature. The G400 is already available in Portugal and retails for 200 Euros, or about $295. It should be available in the States pretty soon, but an exact date has not been announced.

Via [ubergizmo]