France's Evadeo GPS device shows footpaths, bike trails

If there's one place we wouldn't mind getting lost in, it's the French countryside -- given that you don't have to wander too far before a friendly villager invites you (the wayward, weary traveler), inside for a meal and a glass of wine before sending you on your way. At least that's how we imagine France to be, anyway. If you do plan on getting lost, though, you may want to invest €450 ($574) in the Evadeo, a new GPS device designed by France's Institut Geographique Nationale. In addition to the usual assortment of streets and highways, this one has small village roads, footpaths, monuments, hamlets and "topological points of interest" for all of l'Hexagone. The Evadeo sports a 3.5-inch screen (320 x 240), SiRF Star III GPS receiver, a 266MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, an SD card slot, Windows CE 4.2, and weighs a mere 183 g (0.4 lb). While the Evadeo may go well with your countryside picnic, accompanied by a baguette and a wedge of camenbert, just make sure not to spill your Château Lafitte all over the screen, ok?

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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2006 7:22PM]

Heh, trust me...fntasy does NOT match reality in this case. ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2006 9:56PM]

I thought that we French people had an awful reputation for what concerns their relations with tourists (and in english speaking by the way :D)

[Jeffrey Fourmile Posted Nov 9th 2006 9:48PM]

Pork Rolls? Yum!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2006 10:07PM]

Heh...um...yeah...?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2006 11:21AM]

french people are known to be rude to people who dont "try" and speak french. People who try and speak french or can speak french will find them decent friendly people..

thats what foreign people think

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2006 11:50AM]

cameMbert

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2006 6:59AM]

"Institut G�ographique National", no "e" because Institut is masculine! :p
Did you skip your French class about adjectives concordance rules? ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2006 9:41PM]

don't you mean a friendly villager with a hot friendly 22-year-old daughter living at home [and the friendly villager needing to leave the house for a few hours]?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2006 5:24PM]

This is a great product, does It have any maps in Italy?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2006 2:18PM]

And you know, the machine has also an Oxfort English speaking cirl on board. Lovely! Just hit the Union English Flag in the setup menu.