Everyone thinks that the Nintendo DS is just for playing games but they are wrong!
The DS is now for keeping you from getting lost.
Well…it will be once this nifty little add-on is released.
The little guy will feature a “u-blox GPS, 32MB memory, Google Map integration and optional Mandarin and Cantonese voice prompts “.
So now, imagine that you’re sitting in the passenger seat and your friend’s driving down the highway. You were supposed to be at your Grandma’s for dinner three hours ago. Turn off the game, plug in GBalpha’s Ranger GPS and find your way back to Grandma’s in time …read more

I was watching some ABC News show the other night and was startled out of my half-sleep when Bob Woodward started speaking Mandarin to a group of Chinese workers in Angola. Forget about the story they were doing about China investing in Africa; I was impressed by the former anchor’s language skills, especially since he is still recovering from the massive head injury he sustained while covering the war in Iraq.
Mandarin is an incredibly difficult language for Western tongues to get the feel for, but with 1.3 billion Chinese, it seems that we should be taking a stab at it, …read more