Hasta La Gadget!

Get there faster and enjoy the drive with the upcoming JVC KW-NT3HDT. For deep-pocketed car enthusiasts, this attractive installed navigator provides quality map data as well as better-sounding HD radio. The navigator includes maps for all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and text-to-speech for street-name pronunciation, plus a host of useful extras including lane guidance, speed limit display, adaptive volume control (it raises the volume when engine noise is higher), and Bluetooth for hands-free calling.

The 6 million points-of-interest database is oddly small, but you can update it by downloading free PC Link software, searching for new POIs on Google Maps, saving your results on an SD card, and uploading them to the navigator. That’s something you’ll never do, but at least you know you could. You’ll also get two-way iPod control and the HD radio includes iTunes tagging. All this will run you $1199.95 when the KW-NT3HDT is available in March.